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SOPA and What it Means to Users of this Forum? [IT'S BACK!]

#1 Post by Sky Aisling »

Edit: April 2012 - SOPA Morphed into CISPA -
See page 6.

Here are some in-depth articles about the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) poised to be voted on this year in the U.S.A.
SOPA will effect users world wide.
I post them as a starting point of discussion and awareness of this act.

Looks like there is a new act called OPEN being offered.
I started a new thread about the OPEN act:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=75422

SOPA and PIPA Delayed
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/201201 ... ayed.shtml

US Senate postpones Tuesday vote on PIPA
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/ ... te_on_PIPA

Molly Wood's Blog
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-573624 ... ody-loses/

Just In...can anyone verify?
Anonymous #OpMegaUpload Attacks Justice Department, MPAA, RIAA
http://www.fastcompany.com/1809775/anon ... -mpaa-riaa

Khan Academy Explains SOPA-PIPA
http://boingboing.net/2012/01/18/khan-a ... papip.html

SOPA In Fight Over Piracy Bills, New Economy Rises Against Old
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/19/techn ... .html?_r=1

SOPA Strike!
http://americancensorship.org/

SOPA Track - Check How Congress Votes on SOPA
http://sopatrack.com/

Wikipedia to join Web blackout protesting SOPA
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-573 ... ting-sopa/

Obama Administration Comes Out Against SOPA, PIPA
http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com/20 ... a-pipa.php

note: GoDaddy hosts this forum.

GoDaddy time to ...?
http://mashable.com/2011/12/30/its-time ... y-a-break/

GoDaddy bows to boycott, now 'opposes' SOPA copyright bill
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-57349 ... ight-bill/

GoDaddy Requires Photo ID to Transfer
http://digg.com/news/technology/go_dadd ... o_transfer

GoDaddy Boycott Kicks Off Tomorrow
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/12/ ... us-begins/

GoDaddy Drops SOPA Support, maybe ...
http://tidbits.com/article/12692

GoDaddy's Reversal a Win for Customer Pressure

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/a ... ssure.html

Go Daddy loses over 37,000 domains due to SOPA stance
http://venturebeat.com/2011/12/24/godaddy-domain-loss/

Where Do Your Elected Officials Stand on SOPA?
http://mashable.com/2011/12/30/sopa-track-app/

Reddit to go silent in SOPA protest
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-57356 ... a-protest/

Al Gore Comes Out Against SOPA
http://mashable.com/2012/01/06/al-gore-sopa/

Video game industry still supports anti-piracy bill SOPA
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/12/31/v ... e-reports/

Comments from EFFECTOR about SOPA

https://supporters.eff.org/index.php?q= ... t=1&id=108
Wrapping Up a Week Of Action Against SOPA

It looks like the Week of Action Against SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act, has made a difference. Although there wasn't enough opposition to kill the bill outright, the messages we've been sending for weeks — that the bill would create blacklists for online censorship, harm cybersecurity efforts, set a bad international precedent, and lead to a fractured Internet — couldn't be ignored. Chairman Lamar Smith acknowledged that the Judiciary Committee didn't yet have all the facts, and announced that markup would be suspended until the next practicable opportunity — tentatively scheduled for late January.
Silicon Valley Execs Comments:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-573429 ... ag=nl.e757

BoingBoing:
http://boingboing.net/2011/12/17/wtf-is ... a-now.html

Surprise Microsoft quietly opposes SOPA
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-57330 ... ight-bill/

The EFF series on SOPA:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/10/d ... worse-ever

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/10/s ... k-Internet

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/11/h ... innovation

included a link to SOPA:

http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/pdf ... 203261.pdf

Another SOPA piece with video:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/11/2 ... perbole%29

SOPA Alternative:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news ... merges.ars
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#2 Post by SFR »

Someone made an excellent comment about SOPA recently:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w6GtwOvnWM

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#3 Post by nooby »

Thanks for starting the thread.
A lot of organizations and individual persons
here in Europe is very upset about it and so am I.

The companies behind the Lobby that proposed it
gets too much power in their hand.

Youtube as we know it today will most likely have to change
a lot.

and even our forum here has to be very vigilant and stop
any link to music or other copyrighted things.

So a villain that want to destroy for us can bomb us
with such links and there are too few moderators to keep up
so it is bad bad bad.
I use Google Search on Puppy Forum
not an ideal solution though

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#4 Post by SFR »

Exactly - I can imagine one is putting, let's say, "Copyright bomb" on some site,
then site will be closed, and so on, and so on...
...and we can reach the day, when accessing net we'll get "Sorry, internet has been banned" message...
Half funny, half serious, but possible...

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#5 Post by SFR »

One more thought:
IF SOPA will become reality, forums like this must have:
1. Brilliant filters to distinguish links leading to copyrighted materials, or
2. Prohibition of posting links, or
3. Moderation of every post before publishing.

Every point listed above (I assume that 1st point is rather impossible to implement) leads to death of free forum concept, IMHO...

PS. D@mn it, why I became so pessimistic today??
Let someone present any positive point of view, PLEASE! :wink:

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How to transfer a domain from GoDaddy

#6 Post by Adagio »

Go Daddy loses over 37,000 domains due to SOPA stance
http://venturebeat.com/2011/12/24/godaddy-domain-loss/
How to transfer a domain from GoDaddy

http://www.namecheap.com/support/knowle ... om-godaddy

For those that don't get the relevance of this, this forum is hosted on GoDaddy, and they are the reason that the forum goes offline for periods.

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#7 Post by nooby »

Yes that is unfortunate. We have to donate then to John
so he can afford a Host that is reliable. :)
Back to SOPA.

I trust it will be implemented. That Lobby that have taken it this far
spent some 200 million US Dollar on forcing it to get through.

So if they are that at it then they will not give up on it even if
postponed for the moment over Christmas and New Year.

February them will go at it again and see it get fully implemented.

Maybe them take it easy first and only give warning but I agree
that most likely links has to be approved of by the Admin/Mods.

Or else any forum can be crushed by a "Lulz" kid that find it fun to
be destructive.
I use Google Search on Puppy Forum
not an ideal solution though

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#8 Post by jpeps »

SFR wrote:
Every point listed above (I assume that 1st point is rather impossible to implement) leads to death of free forum concept, IMHO...

PS. D@mn it, why I became so pessimistic today
Try not pessimistic enough. There are many useful advantages for the government to gain controls of the internet. That's what police states do.

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#9 Post by nubc »

VP Joe Biden is a longtime copyright enforcement weener, having sponsored several bills over the last decade. He is indirectly responsible for the Obama administration's appointment of 5 RIAA attorneys to the DoJ.
http://www.tinymixtapes.com/features/jo ... blem-music

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#10 Post by Aitch »

SFR

Thanks for the Dan Bull video - goodstuff, nice pink floyd sample guitar riffs - I'm sure they won't mind....

http://puppylinux.info/topic/is-copyrig ... #post-2594

SOPA/ProtectIP....same old puritanism, dressed up unethical greed!

Here's a video made, expecting SOPA to have been passed...in the event, it wasn't

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&featu ... eEcoi8kEuU

Part of the problem - congress brainiacs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&featu ... 6x1sYYqKLY

Aitch :)
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#11 Post by big_bass »

Although Go Daddy reversed their stance on SOPA, it wasn’t before 37,000 domains were transfer off of its service, according to information reported by The Domains. The report indicates that over 15,000 domains were transferred off Thursday and another 21,054 domains on Friday. If you factor in the $6.99 to $10.99 fees associated with each of those domain registrations, Go Daddy is losing a significant amount of money.
if you know how business works
you dont have a business when your customers
leave

since this forum uses Go Daddy
it would be wise to do some back ups soon

this will only help those that are not complacent
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=74404

why people react to problems differently
some panic some complain some react by looking for new solutions
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Moved_My_Cheese%3F
Joe

fixed typo "are"
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Re: How to transfer a domain from GoDaddy

#12 Post by Flash »

Adagio wrote:... this forum is hosted on GoDaddy, and they are the reason that the forum goes offline for periods...
That's probably not a true statement. I don't think GoDaddy is the reason the forum went down, but GoDaddy's (lack of) response after the forum went down was certainly counterimpressive. :lol:

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#13 Post by jpeps »

Aitch wrote:
Part of the problem - congress brainiacs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&featu ... 6x1sYYqKLY
Thanks. This offered great clarity on all the complex issues involved; however I found some others that offered better focus and insight :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxOQZMWP ... =endscreen

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#14 Post by Aitch »

Ha Ha

She's nearly as bad as the Congress guy

This isn't bad, if you want more info/reality

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhwuXNv8fJM

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-57343 ... epublican/

Ron Paul, where are you?

http://www.techdirt.com/blog/?tag=sopa

How many puppy uploads on filesharing sites will disappear because of this?

Aitch :)

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#15 Post by SFR »

Aitch wrote:Part of the problem - congress brainiacs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&featu ... 6x1sYYqKLY
LOL :lol: , politicians are the same (idiots) all over the world.
But...let's forgive them, they're just weak and brainless puppets of corporations' schemers.
jpeps wrote:however I found some others that offered better focus and insight :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxOQZMWP ... =endscreen
I'm crushed! :shock: :lol:
But, in a contrary, this cutie seems to be quite sharp:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-lGyMe931w

Meanwhile:
At last, after hard, intensive thinking (<- joke), I finally found a bright side of this whole SOPA thing.
When SOPA becomes true and our (illusion of?) freedom will be restricted, it may cause, that our sense of solidarity will grow
and more people start to publish their work under GNU/GPL and Creative Commons.
If the enemy is known and threatens the masses, people (even if they were antagonists) tend to unite and share with each other.

Or am I naive..?

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#16 Post by jpeps »

SFR wrote: Or am I naive..?
I think it's far better not to give away your freedom to begin with. It's hard to get it back. We're seeing the importance of YouTube...let's hope corporate interests don't shut it down.

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#17 Post by nooby »

AFAIK it is already taken but only postponed due to one voice asking
for something that makes it temporarily hanging but within weeks or month it will go through.

It does not look promising at all. All the music we had access to
will be gone. Would even artists be allowed to do covers anymore?
I mean them want money if you sing others copyrighted stuff.

That is how it is regulated in law here in Sweden. If you play in public
then you are supposed to pay to the Iffy ot what name they have.
Then they pay the artists collectively.

Unless you sing only your own copyrighted stuff? Or things that are
70 years old or more. Old Folk music whom nobody owns anymore?
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#18 Post by nubc »

This article paints a depressing picture
http://www.quora.com/Does-SOPA-E-PARASI ... of-passing

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#19 Post by jpeps »

nubc wrote:This article paints a depressing picture
http://www.quora.com/Does-SOPA-E-PARASI ... of-passing
This bill will be as effective as airline security..where many citizens have simply had to stop flying (you have a metal post in your leg, etc.....). Is anyone really stupid enough to think this bill will be effectively employed?

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SOPA - News Update 28/12/11

#20 Post by Aitch »

Hey, but wait...
Latest news is that financial advisers have ascertained that the States Legislature and Tax Department revenue would gain greater advantage for the economy and US citizens, and an easier enforcement regime, if the bill were amended to go after Spammers and Virus-makers and spreaders, whose use of the Internet bandwidth is estimated to be costing the global economy in excess of 35 Trillion dollars, (as well as being responsible for heavy burdens on businesses at all levels, including Government departments)...which would just about stabilise the economy for the coming 2012 Presidential Election, rather than put the Country into a state of division and outrage, at the backlash of current proposals.
Proposals to encourage shutting down both servers and advertising revenue streams derived from Spammer activity, and granting funds to existing Spam and Antivirus firms, are also being hurriedly put together....individuals found to have Spam or Viruses on their PCs would be offered a $10 fix service throughout a vast array of stores, with Micr$oft heading up a free update if the Operating system was damaged during infection of the PC. Apple say they are unaffected, but expect to gain some market share, and Linux users fell about laughing........

Oh!...that was an interesting dream.... :lol: :lol:

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