SOPA

[-HP-]

[D3ads]

":2ke9sxes]

You remember that random guy who was talking shit to you about the New World Order once, and you just laughed it off? He wasn't talking shit...

[D3ads]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16642369

For fuck's sake

[Pampers]

like there ever were a legit file on megaupload

[Rick_D]

yeah haha

although sopa and megaupload are unrelated i just feel they are bringing it up now to make it look like they need sopa at all

[selmitto]

yeah, like taking Megaupload down would tell us that "we are already against the laws" and those nonsense Acts would be really necessary.

What happens with anyone who used MegaUpload to host personal/ private/ commercial files?

I know people that hosted important backup files in there. I know that's not recommended, because they could lose everything in case the site went down (like at this very moment), but sometimes that's the only way to backup files.

[Rick_D]

well MU was taken down mainly because their owners were flaunting illegality, and were stupid. the tv-streaming was stupid and they actively made money by offering tv shows hosted on their servers.

one thing about all of this that jumps out at me is how hopelessly redundant the distribution and production companies are, why aren't they offering a comparable service so people aren't forced to go to illegal services? amazon movies aren't available in europe, netflix doesn't have shit, spotify locks music based on region, all in all it's totally pathetic that they want to blame us for their shitty service and inability to understand the internet.

old men running the world. old men who don't get that thins have changed, and that they need to catch the fuck up.

[selmitto]

I believe you are right with those examples.

There're some quotes of the great Gabe Newell that say:

"the way to end piracy is to provide a service that's more complete than cracked software"

and

"We think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem,"

more of this in here.

[Sentura]

sounds like you're ready to write your first book, rick

[RedYager]

This made me chuckle

[Froyok]

Meanwhile in USA :

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/0 ... -decision/

I think it's time to nuke a little the government.

[Jetsetlemming]

Meanwhile in USA :

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/0 ... -decision/

I think it's time to nuke a little the government.

This is actually the Supreme Court ruling the US agreeing to a European treaty on copyrights. It's not "You can arbitrarily claim a public domain work as your own", these works in question were public domain by the rules of the US, but still protected in Europe.

[knj]

26'th of january in my country, RIP internet

[-HP-]

How can someone recopyright public domain stuff?! Wtf... and if those copyrights are infringed, who would you have to pay a fine to? Given they were once public. I don't get this bullshit...

I'll be right back, I'm gonna copyright my own farts. Because I can

[knj]