SOPA - the Death of internet as we Know!

[Prime_Coder]

The solution to SOPA won’t be found in Washington - and shouldn’t be. The only way to really combat piracy is for Silicon Valley and Hollywood to start working as a team.

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[Liverpool_fan]

Hi everyone!

A big hurrah to you!!!!! We’ve won for now -- SOPA and PIPA were dropped by Congress today -- the votes we’ve been scrambling to mobilize against have been cancelled.

The largest online protest in history has fundamentally changed the game. You were heard.

On January 18th, 13 million of us took the time to tell Congress to protect free speech rights on the internet. Hundreds of millions, maybe a billion, people all around the world saw what we did on Wednesday. See the amazing numbers here and tell everyone what you did.

This was unprecedented. Your activism may have changed the way people fight for the public interest and basic rights forever.


The MPAA (the lobby for big movie studios which created these terrible bills) was shocked and seemingly humbled. “‘This was a whole new different game all of a sudden,’ MPAA Chairman and former Senator Chris Dodd told the New York Times. ‘[PIPA and SOPA were] considered by many to be a slam dunk.’”

“'This is altogether a new effect,' Mr. Dodd said, comparing the online movement to the Arab Spring. He could not remember seeing 'an effort that was moving with this degree of support change this dramatically' in the last four decades, he added."

Tweet with us, shout on the internet with us, let's celebrate: Round of applause to the 13 million people who stood up - #PIPA and #SOPA are tabled 4 now. #13millionapplause
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We're indebted to everyone who helped in the beginning of this movement -- you, and all the sites that went out on a limb to protest in November -- Boing Boing and Mozilla Foundation (and thank you Tumblr, 4chan)! And the grassroots groups -- Public Knowledge, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Demand Progress, CDT, and many more.

#SOPA and #PIPA will likely return in some form. But when they do, we'll be ready. Can you make a donation to Fight for the Future, to help us keep this fire going?

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We changed the game this fall, and we're not gonna stop. $8, $20, every little bit helps.

13 million strong,

Tiffiniy, Holmes, Joshua, Phil, CJ, Donny, Douglas, Nicholas, Dean, David S. and Moore... Fight for the Future!


P.S. China's internet censorship system reminds us why the fight for democratic principles is so important:

In the New Yorker: "Fittingly, perhaps, the discussion has unfolded on Weibo, the Twitter-like micro-blogging site that has a team of censors on staff to trim posts with sensitive political content. That is the arrangement that opponents of the bill have suggested would be required of American sites if they are compelled to police their users’ content for copyright violations. On Weibo, joking about SOPA’s similarities to Chinese censorship was sensitive enough that some posts on the subject were almost certainly deleted (though it can be hard to know).
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After Chinese Web users got over the strangeness of hearing Americans debate the merits of screening the Web for objectionable content, they marvelled at the American response. Commentator Liu Qingyan wrote:

‘We should learn something from the way these American Internet companies protested against SOPA and PIPA. A free and democratic society depends on every one of us caring about politics and fighting for our rights. We will not achieve it by avoiding talk about politics.’"

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(press release is here: *fightfortheftr.wordpress.com/press-releases/)

Well for now.

Quality stuff by Coelho.
My thoughts on S.O.P.A. — Paulo Coelho's Blog

 

[bubusam13]

WOW !! now will megaupload be back again ? just asking. Though I dont use it, I miss websites. ;(
And the old Limeware

 

[Anorion]

Congress puts brakes on anti-piracy bills | Reuters
its over
"Stunning Win"

 

[Liverpool_fan]

No. Megaupload has nothing to do with SOPA. If anything it proves the mafIAA can mindlessly censor even without that bill, and SOPA would have given them the power to do that with every website with fiddling of their fingers.

Yet there are still retarded bills like ACTA. Sadly I doubt whether it will have that response in spite of being even more retarded.

Hollywood threatens to withdraw funding for Barack Obama over SOPA - Telegraph

 

[RaghuKL]

Death of SOPA as we know !!!!!
SOPA Is Dead: Smith Pulls Bill

*news.nationalpost.com/2012/01/20/sopa-stopped-after-unprecedented-online-protests/

 

[sygeek]

Death of SOPA as we know !!!!!
SOPA Is Dead: Smith Pulls Bill

SOPA and PIPA stopped after unprecedented protests from Wikipedia, reddit | News | National Post

Nope.

 

[theserpent]

Yea No more SOPA
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,But now INDIAS remaining there going to block youtube,facebook(I dont care for fb),Google also??If they do so many people will lose there jobs

 

[Liverpool_fan]

Indian judgement is plain retarded. It's impossible for any of the sites to manually filter such huge websites. It was even more moronic of the judge to cite China. Clueless and out of touch are two of the words for that judgement.
It's like saying the judges and bureaucrats should he hanged for one criminal offense under their areas. And they should manually monitor every house, every room, and every corner.

 

[Faun]

Indian judgement is plain retarded. It's impossible for any of the sites to manually filter such huge websites. It was even more moronic of the judge to cite China. Clueless and out of touch are two of the words for that judgement.
It's like saying the judges and bureaucrats should he hanged for one criminal offense under their areas. And they should manually monitor every house, every room, and every corner.

I have seen people in my office at higher posts idolizing china like state control.

 

[asingh]

Indian judgement is plain retarded. It's impossible for any of the sites to manually filter such huge websites. It was even more moronic of the judge to cite China. Clueless and out of touch are two of the words for that judgement.
It's like saying the judges and bureaucrats should he hanged for one criminal offense under their areas. And they should manually monitor every house, every room, and every corner.

How can one assess when they do not understand the entity. Lame as usual, by our government.

 

[tarey_g]

This is a great, to the point snippet from an article on Forbes regarding SOPA.

As a rough analogy, since antipiracy crusaders are fond of equating filesharing with shoplifting: suppose the CEO of Wal-Mart came to Congress demanding a $50 million program to deploy FBI agents to frisk suspicious-looking teens in towns near Wal-Marts. A lawmaker might, without for one instant doubting that shoplifiting is a bad thing, question whether this is really the optimal use of federal law enforcement resources. The CEO indignantly points out that shoplifting kills one million adorable towheaded orphans each year. The proof is right here in this study by the Wal-Mart Institute for Anti-Shoplifting Studies. The study sources this dramatic claim to a newspaper article, which quotes the CEO of Wal-Mart asserting (on the basis of private data you can’t see) that shoplifting kills hundreds of orphans annually. And as a footnote explains, it seemed prudent to round up to a million. I wish this were just a joke, but as readers of my previous post will recognize, that’s literally about the level of evidence we’re dealing with here.

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[bubusam13]

SOPA is not implemented right. Then why this ---->
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Can FBI control everything. World leaders wake up before FBI controls your freedom