View Full Version : SOPA is DEAD!
Useless
2012-01-20, 02:59 PM
http://mashable.com/2012/01/20/sopa-is-dead-smith-pulls-bill/
Lamar Smith, the chief sponsor of SOPA, said on Friday that he is pulling the bill “until there is wider agreement on a solution.”
“I have heard from the critics and I take seriously their concerns regarding proposed legislation to address the problem of online piracy,” Smith (R-Texas) said. “It is clear that we need to revisit the approach on how best to address the problem of foreign thieves that steal and sell American inventions and products.”
Clearly, Greenie and I are to thank for this, since we very bravely shut down a couple of link lists in protest of SOPA.
You're welcome, America. |headbang|
The illegal tubes and pirate sites are rejoicing.
virgohippy
2012-01-20, 03:26 PM
http://mashable.com/2012/01/20/sopa-is-dead-smith-pulls-bill/
Clearly, Greenie and I are to thank for this, since we very bravely shut down a couple of link lists in protest of SOPA.
You're welcome, America. |headbang|
I guess he finally asked the "nerds" who know how the internet works, cuz you know... only "nerds" use the internet nowadays. |catfight|
Useless
2012-01-20, 05:08 PM
Our lord, Google, actually slowed their crawl rate in order to aid those of us who were protesting SOPA.
http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2140446/Google-Slowed-Crawl-Rate-to-Aid-Websites-Protesting-SOPA
GoogleBot Slowed... Well, to a Crawl
The Next Web cites web performance and security company CloudFlare in showing a 60.7 percent decrease in Google's crawl rate on January 17. This is an inevitable and natural result of its spying an increase in 503 headers, the recommended cue to GoogleBot that the temporary blackout content should not be indexed. Baidu also slowed to a lesser extent, by 11.23 percent.
Bing, on the other hand, crawled 2.35 percent faster. TNW's Brad McCarty noted, "The unintended consequence here is that today Google perhaps has results that are not as 'fresh' as Bing. However, it's also possible that Bing's increased crawl rate has left it with a few more results that are indicative of the blackout, instead of what a site's content actually is."
Apparently yesterday Anonymous start DoS attacks on polish gov sites in response for ACTA. https://www.eff.org/issues/acta Polish gov is signing the bill in 4 days, jan 26
|banghead|
The illegal tubes and pirate sites are rejoicing.
bummer, and ironic.
I don't really know why werbmasters should be happy sopa's dead. I'm not particularly.
Something equivalent will soon be here - in 2013. So we can bleed til then.
Useless
2012-01-22, 12:40 PM
Worry about the things you can control, not the things you cannot. There are plenty of legal tubes that are far larger than the illegal ones.
Legal - illegal - I jerk off to tube vids, I can't tell the difference, don't have a mental list that says "this ones legal, this one isn't", but I see plenty of vids I know are stolen at all of them.
You got a list of which are legal and which are illegal? Might make for an intersting survey.
And the Bastard Son of SOPA will be coming down the pike soon, as the value of content asymptotically approaches zero.
BSSOPA will probably be worse than SOPA.
Evil Chris
2012-01-23, 04:18 PM
My son (who is 8) was playing Roblox the other day. He wisely informed me that SOPA is bad, ok Dad?
Love him.
Useless
2012-01-23, 06:57 PM
My son (who is 8) was playing Roblox the other day. He wisely informed me that SOPA is bad, ok Dad?
Love him.Yeah, I was shocked that both of my kids knew about it too. They love their interwebs.
Ramster
2012-01-24, 08:39 AM
No idea why I'm saying this but... I'd just like to add that if google would delete all the torrents and illegal upload sites from their site we wouldn't even be talking about this!!
Useless
2012-01-24, 08:53 AM
No idea why I'm saying this but... I'd just like to add that if google would delete all the torrents and illegal upload sites from their site we wouldn't even be talking about this!!|thumb
Truer words haven't been spoken.
papagmp
2012-02-17, 08:55 PM
No idea why I'm saying this but... I'd just like to add that if google would delete all the torrents and illegal upload sites from their site we wouldn't even be talking about this!!
Agreed - No one hides behind DMCA more than Google.
And they can list faster than any other entity, no matter how large, can send in take-down requests.
freakin
2012-02-18, 07:49 PM
It's funny the illegal, and I mean blatantly illegal ones, that actively fight against it. Yeah doing more harm than good guys.
Pagan
2012-02-20, 05:09 AM
Or you do like Finland did, and order the largest ISP to block access to them. I hear Holland has also done the same. Will it hold? I am not sure. We don't have that many ISPs here, so something like this can work well.
http://thenextweb.com/eu/2012/01/09/a-finnish-isp-has-blocked-the-pirate-bay-following-a-court-order/
You can also get ISPs to do this on an individual basis. When I worked at Qwest Long Distance, there were a lot of those pay chat lines they would not connect to because of the huge backcharges. Everyone on the network pays for those calls. Qwest would not route your calls to the "Backdoor to the Manhole" but AT&T would... Qwest service and rates were better.
ffnK.O.
2012-02-20, 05:41 PM
Apparently yesterday Anonymous start DoS attacks on polish gov sites in response for ACTA. https://www.eff.org/issues/acta Polish gov is signing the bill in 4 days, jan 26
|banghead|
Wondering about ACTA myself....
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