SOPA Is Baaaack!

Ernesto
January 17, 2012
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sopa That didn’t take long.

A few days ago the news broke that the pending Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) was put on hold until consensus was reached.

Although the announcement was rather vague, some news sites and blogs declared SOPA dead, or “shelved,” or erased from history.

Wishful thinking, because today SOPA is back in full force.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith just announced that the SOPA markup is expected to continue next month.

“To enact legislation that protects consumers, businesses and jobs from foreign thieves who steal America’s intellectual property, we will continue to bring together industry representatives and Members to find ways to combat online piracy,” Chairman Smith said.

“Due to the Republican and Democratic retreats taking place over the next two weeks, markup of the Stop Online Piracy Act is expected to resume in February.

“I am committed to continuing to work with my colleagues in the House and Senate to send a bipartisan bill to the White House that saves American jobs and protects intellectual property.”

Update: SOPA / PIPA co-sponsors drop like flies.

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Asd

These people that run your country sound immensely dense.
- Lin
  
  Your wrong they are not dense, they are greedy. No one in the US government gave a shit, until big fat checks started to appear in front of them with a note saying do what we say and more will come.
  - MrJWatson
    
    *you’re wrong.
    - Mr. Putin
      
      *Wrong you are.
      
      in the eyes of Yoda >.>
    - Kevin S
      
      No, he’s right. Big companies with tons of intellectual property have the most influence and can best guarantee power and re-election.
      The difference with SOPA is just that now the corruption is more open/apparent.
    - Joe
      
      Did you get any gain from saying that? I hope you did.
    - LOL
      
      Intellectual property is such a genius idea, because it is not actually *real* property! Yet, even as fictitious as it is, it can be decreed to have been “stolen” an uncountable amount of times because it is an intangible entity. Therefore, either one of two general scenarios happens:
      
      1) “Stealing” (in quotes because it is not really stealing) remains at low levels due to enforcement mechanisms and the industries holding the so-called intellectual “property” run a cartel over the works.
      
      2) “Stealing” becomes rampant and the cartel is broken, but since intellectual property is an entity which can be “stolen” an uncountably high number of times, massive damages can be sought out (for example, the RIAA’s vicious legal attacks on children).
    - mal808
      
      While I’m completely against both of these bills getting pushed through at the minute, intellectual property is very, very real – and saying it isn’t is just as bad, but an extreme in the opposite direction.
      If Rihanna, or Justin Timberlake or Bruno Mars or someone similar overheard a song you wrote and released it, had a multi-million selling hit for themselves and their label, and you didn’t see a penny – you’re saying that’s fine, it’s not your property?
      lol, I’m pretty suer you’d be signing up lawyers contacting the media in a frenzy to stop the theft of your work, and rightly so.
      SOPA is a serious threat to free speech – but intellectual copyright IS real.
    - mal808
      
      Sorry, my above comment is for LOL below.
    - Alexsch1
      
      Fuck you for being a grammer prick and making me waste my god damn time reading your comment. Seriously you fuck.
  - Me
    
    The actual politicians and a lot of voters seem to be pretty dense.
    - Anonymous
      
      Yup… dumb AND greedy,
  - http://www.facebook.com/mattwo7 Mat Bars
    
    Oh no, they are indeed very dense. Not one of them knew a thing about the internet, they are unfit to vote on such a bill. They even trolled people watching a live-stream of their markup singing “the internet is for porn”.
- http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001632579299 Ian Furrswagg Griffin
  
  yeah, pretty much……. and the worst part is…… they had to get voted into office >.>
  u think this is bad? u should look at what the current governor of Florida, Rick Scott, has done.
  - http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=754634512 Joan Bueter
    
    Yeah, and we can’t even have the satisfaction of recalling him. Even the dummy Teathuglicans who elected won’t admit to voting for him now.
    Hat’s off to Wisconsin!!! GO WISCONSIN!
- stealingshit@home
  
  I’m a foreign thief stealing america’s intellect. suck it.
  - Snowape
    
    Yarr’
  - http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=754634512 Joan Bueter
    
    Some freakin’ buddy shore stole it.
- http://pulse.yahoo.com/_F5MNR4YM24HMF2N2OPBNLVEG2I Edward
  
  Immensely bought!!!
- Chaos
  
  They are dense as Lead bricks and about as smart =Their conservative which means they don’t care about people they care about money-most of the conservatives are fear mongers and are trying to say were trying to stop piracy when what they are trying to do is get big donations for campaigning.
  - mal808
    
    This is going well past conservative or liberal, people need to see that – this is imperialist. American liberties are being eroded at an alarming rate.
    You should also forget the idea that American politicians have any power any more; to paraphrase Bill Hicks – ” I think the puppet on the left speaks a lot of sense | well I think the puppet on the right speaks my views…. WAIT A MINUTE……” *light-bulb moment*
  - http://pulse.yahoo.com/_4H55C2NZ5FS4PRMWWV4YCXBBIM John Dillinger
    
    one of the supporters of this bill is sherrod brown.not exactly a conservative.
  - Peterson John Christopher
    
    SOPA and PIPA are both bipartisan bills.
- Guest
  
  They are NOT dense. they are greedy, taking bribes and its a facist country after all what do you expect?
  So far in 10 years freedom of speech is gone thanks to a new bill passed few months ago.
  Another bill allowed the USA to be called a battlefield so you can be detained indefinetly
  and they want to censor the internet now completely.
  
  The usa needs a reality check up. ANd it seems it needs to be bombed to wake up
  - Artemiy
    
    They’re turning into Commies. I mean the bad type of them. Censoring everything and invading every country that has needed resources.
  - plumberscrack
    
    > ANd it seems it needs to be bombed to wake up
    LOL, DO IT FAGGOT
    - God
      
      lol, why there’s some of that home brewed American intelligence right there. How eloquent! Do you also write presidential speeches? Do you do birthday parties? On a side note, someone already did *cough* 911 *cough* and you guys have just done such a wonderful job of dealing with that minor scare.
- Wyrdless
  
  Actually, they are blood thirsty criminals bent on squeezing profit out of America by destroying freedom.
  
  They know what they are doing, they know it is wrong, they are doing it for money. Hopefully someone will arrest them and put them in a maximum security jail forever with a vicious psychotic roommate.
- http://www.facebook.com/people/Papa-Frums/100001353711711 Papa Frums
  
  https://www.google.com/landing/takeaction/
- Ladykikyou11
  
  they are, dear government you should probably realize something, if you shut down the sites that you are planning to shut down then a few things will happen. The teen suicide rate will increase as it is, it is high, the difference is that we have created a support system through tumblr and twitter, we have created families that we can depend on in times of trouble or if we need someone to talk to. Also a huge amount of jobs will be lost, everyone that works at these sites will loose there jobs because you spent so much effort in shutting them down so that people loose their jobs. there are more important things that you could be worrying about besides the few of us that are downloading songs for our own personal use.
Lukas

I’m hoping so very much that both PIPA and SOPA will be dead after tomorrow.
I’m counting on the US to start listening to people instead of money… Maybe that’s a bit optimistic…
- Anonymous
  
  In today’s economy? Way too optimistic, my dear sir. Money wins.
  - -_-
    
    you’re fucking stupid – senators/ reps are making more money than ever not from lobbyists, but from fucking over the poor, and playing investment games.
    - Anonymous
      
      uh…. I can’t tell whether you’re agreeing with me or not…..
- Chilly8
  
  Lamar Smith is never going to give up with SOPA. Much like Allistair Domandy and Britain’s Marine Offences Act, the government is never going to listen to public opinion.
Samantha Brook Chrispin

wtf!!!! that didn’t take long!
- Fantastic
  
  Its like our the governor in my state and gambling. Smith has gotten way too much backing from the MAFIAA to back down and is likely doing this to give his “owners” more time to buy people in the committee. Need to toss all these bums out selling our rights for some pittance from BIG IP.
Anonymous

I guess the check from Hollywood cleared
http://techfleece.com/ Richard Gailey

The corporations have spent waaay too much money in lobbying willfully corrupt and greedy politicians to just let this get shelved. Even the Whitehouse press release was merely a temporary form of appeasement to the angry masses.

SOPA and PIPA need to be killed for good.
http://culturalliberty.org/blog Crosbie Fitch

Don’t worry, Obama will stop SOPA – just after he gets round to closing Guantanamo, etc.
- Fantastic
  
  And he’ll blame the other party like they were holding him hostage as he signs the cursed thing. Cept they are the minority in the senate so that quashes that fallacy. Both sides are guilty of selling us out to their backers and they all need to be tossed. Need some Pirate Party reps up in that place.
  - http://culturalliberty.org/blog Crosbie Fitch
    
    Assassination of mere suspects.
    Torture of mere suspects (filling airways with water legally declared mere interrogation).
    Indefinite detention of mere suspects (no trial either).
    Extradition of those merely suspected to have infringed copyright (even just linking), and then imprisonment and bankruptcy.
    
    Somehow I suspect SOPA/ProtectIP is going to be enacted whether “We The Pirates” like it or not.
    
    It’s open season on suspected enemies of the state.
    - Severok_2003
      
      We are the dead
    - duh
      
      You don’t seem to understand how government works. Obama can veto both SOPA and PIPA, stopping the legislation in a similar manner that Congress stopped the closing of Guantanamo.
    - Fantastic
      
      Indeed, this is just an expansion of “in out sites” to a massive scale that cuts America off from the world and culls our ability to communicate freely without government intervention to give us the “correct” information at the same time crushing the next evolution of technology and entertainment for the sake of old monopolistic dinosaurs. Fight on and fight hard and when they pass it anyway then its out duty to ignore and subvert those laws that are immoral and unjust.
    - MereMcMerely
      
      YO DAWG! I put some mere in your mere so you can mere while you mere!
  - Quigger
    
    Join the Church of Kopimism. That’s what I did.
    - Anonymous
      
      Quigger – and achieve what exactly?
      
      username ‘Duh’ (above) – could not reply directly – sorry: also please actually google how the presidents Veto actually works. its not like he can veto anything and no one would dare question because he is the President.
      
      before you jump to conclusions, or write fictitious arguments (‘duh’ ) please make sure you know what you are talking about.
- Duh
  
  Obama did everything he possibly could have done as president to close Guanatanamo. You, like the rest of the U.S., seem to think that the POTUS has more power than he actually does. Congress blocked the closing of Guantanamo by denying funds to do so. Congress has all the power in this country.
  - http://www.facebook.com/people/Doug-Harris/100000553881705 Doug Harris
    
    Congress is in the corporations pockets. So you just proved his point
  - Anonymous
    
    thank you for not being a complete moron like the other ‘duh’
  - Fake
    
    Obama works for the same people Bush Jr did. A big part of their job is to manufacture enemies as a justification to steal the product of our labor, our property and our rights.
    
    The friends and relatives of those tortured will become the next generation of boggy-men to brow-beat sheeple into giving up their rights. Just as Osama was trained by the CIA (Reagan called him a Freedom Fighter against the USSR) Saddam was put into power by the Pentagon (the US gave him the key to the city of Detroit because he was anti-communist) and even the Mullahs in Iran were supplied with arms by Oliver North (because they were anti-communist).
    
    Who built the nuclear reactors in Iran and North Korea? Anyone? Anyone? Turns out US companies did but the media cabal try to imply that it was the Russians and the Chinese did when it was crypto-fascist elements of our government that arraigned it.
    
    SOPA it not reallly about stopping video game piracy.
    
    SOPA is about crushing any unauthorized communication.
    - http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=754634512 Joan Bueter
      
      You are absolutely correct on every point. Our government has been on the wrong side of all of these SOB’s forever. It’s all about the money baby.
      I know that OWS is scaring the hell out of them and if they limit communication huge protests like OWS will not be possible. Just another way to keep control of the sheeple.
    - no
      
      @Fake
      
      Remember that millenia ago (70′s) the Cold War was still going on. Russia invaded Afghanistan to seize the oil pipelines and the USA then funded the Mullahs since that would keep Russia out. Iraq then went into Afghanistan after Russia left (Think it was Iraq, or Iran into Iraq ‘shrugs’, long time since I cared) so the USA intervened. Saddam went into power since he was against the USSR and thus a useful ally. The USA adopted the Arab phrase “The enemy of my enemy is my friend” so they made a lot of deals which seemed useful at the time.
      
      Keeping in mind this was when the two biggest countries in the world that between them had arsenals big enough that could blow the earth into tiny little pieces. Stopping that was a good idea.
      
      I doubt the USA government would build reactors in Iran given that Iran’s reason for living is to wipe out the state of Israel and all of their allies. Given how the USA seems to be Israel’s main ally that would be suicidal for them give Iran a nuclear reactor.Russians would be more likely to supply Iran/North Korea given Korea’s communist stance (Korean war was almost Russia V USA, communism V capitalism), and Iran’s anti-USA stance. Think of them as a useful sacrificial assault. The Arab states occupy the USA’s forces for years and weaken them, thus setting up Russia or China to move in with a reasonable chance of success. The USA has absolutely nothing to gain from granting Iran or North Korea nuclear technology so the government wouldn’t fund them. Companies… Well businesses can be very “Me, me, me” so to speak, but still. Self preservation has to occur to them sometime. But then giving them sophisticated anti-aircraft missiles “in order to negotiate” would violate that. -.- They might be stupid enough.
      
      SOPA really is about wealth though, look up Happy Birthday. It’s copyrighted which is why you’ll rarely see it in a movie. Now imagine someone posting that to Facebook, and a competitor of Facebook sees that. Being able to instantly get Facebook taken down for violation of copyright would be ideal, no?
    - http://twitter.com/ChiefCherry Shannon Cherry
      
      That’s why we need Ron Paul.
  - http://profiles.google.com/artfulldragon TL Dragon
    
    Exactly. I’m not going to be putting Obama on any sort of pedestal (unless I suffer a traumatic brain injury rendering me a complete moron), but it’s frightening how many American’s are too stupid to realize he isn’t the whole show.
    
    Obama for canonization? Hell no. Pure evil and father of lies and atrocities committed in the name of muslims and the entertainment industry? Not that either.
    
    Douche bag politician…redundant wording but yes. I don’t like his stance on IP and copyright, but I don’t believe he is after the sort of broad damn near terroristic things SOPA was constructed for.
    
    The glitch here is, if they bother constructing a bill that is actually about IP/copyright protection our dear old dumb shit POTUS will be leading the charge.
  - Slaphappypappy
    
    I don’t understand why you need funds to close something.
http://travismccrea.com Travis McCrea

They are actually not stupid, it’s highly cleaver to stop discussion on it right now and start it up in a month:
tomorrow some of the most popular websites on the internet will be going black to show their position against the bill. That will get people angry for about 48 hours… and then back to life as normal.

When SOPA comes back into full swing in a month or two, the major websites wont do a second blackout… so it will be discussed and passed without as much interference from the pesky “common people”.
- Abc
  
  No, they will do a second blackout. Stop saying mean things
Anonymous

Skeptic Tank at http://www.SkepticTank.Org is also going dark in the morning, it is ranked 138,845 in the United States, 547,194 globally.

Despite the Obama regime trying to lay low on this SOPA act of treason against our country, the blackout is going forward since it’s obvious the Wall Street traitors will try to commit this against our country again once the current outrage dies down.
Anonymous

Facebook should do it…. saying that everyone would mass run a wild riot :O
- Anonymous
  
  could you imagine all those farmville users. they will leave their kids at home, and storm the white house to get back to their farms.
- http://twitrax.com SelfMadeStacks
  
  The FEDs own Facebook.
http://twitter.com/peplepowerusa Gone-Dee

Vote all these traitors out of office. Tar and feather is a good idea too :-)
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_OK7Y7PCSTJ27RCKZ2MGRSAYCTE NEIL

I agree – Google and Facebook shutting would have more impact within USA than Wikipedia etc.
- Hyperion
  
  I take this as a blessing in disguise. I was worried tomorrows black out would appear irrelevant since SOPA was “dead” up until a couple of hours ago. Also, this gives companies like Facebook and Google time to consider a blackout of their own. After reddit set the date, people only had a week to get on board, that makes companies like Facebook nervous. Now they have time to plan.
  - F.B.C
    
    hyperion the real?
- aguywanking
  
  Gooogle and Facebook would be sued by their cutomers and shareholders if they shut down .
- Anonymous
  
  google is doing something, just not a blackout. i think they have too many sponsors and contracts with them, to be able to do a complete blackout. Facebook would be similarly pushed. HOWEVER both could stil raise awareness, like the login page to facebook could be blacked out with “what will SOPA/PIPA do to you?” and link to more details, or randomly showing a blacked out page etc
  - http://profiles.google.com/artfulldragon TL Dragon
    
    Home page will highlight SOPA tomm. Not sue how effective that will be because wtf uses the home page anymore? Type that shit in the addy or use the browser search.
Singularity

This attempt at governing the freedom of the web is dangerous and wrong on all levels. The internet can and does police itself – case in point is the recent work from Facebook against the Koobface group. Although I do not usually agree with Facebook or the way they treat information, I do strongly believe that this type of action should be used to demonstrate to the lawmakers just how the freedom of the web operates.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Dakota-Dube/1178206657 Dakota Dube

the ghost of macho man randy savage really needs to make an appearance at the next hearing/debate/lining of the pockets.
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http://twitter.com/Fahim64 Fahim Nezam

Assholes
http://www.ifactoryunlock.com/ Chad Wharton

I thought this was just a media trick to disperse the support behind Anti-Sopa. The last buzzword in people’s head is SOPA-doa. But then it will get slightly worse and more vague then go up for a quick vote.

Chad Wharton
IT Technician
http://www.iFactoryUnlock.com
Authorized: Apple iPhone unlocking
“Fight SOPA and don’t fall back asleep!”
http://www.calsullivan.com Cal

I am proud to say that many of us webmasters, hundreds(+) in fact, of small and large websites, free and for profit, and all other walks of web life are protesting this bill tomorrow in a internet blackout. We will not allow our rights to be trampled. My Political Community is blacking out too, but it’s a great place to vote and debate on SOPA (and other issues) until it happens! http://www.politicalbuddies.com
Alyssa Blindy

*face in pillow* screaming. Why, do, we, have, to, deal, with, all, this, BS? I wish I could live in a different galaxy right now, a peaceful galaxy, where the free flow of information is encouraged, not punished.
- Rekrul
  
  *face in pillow* screaming. Why, do, we, have, to, deal, with, all, this, BS?
  
  Because the US government is corrupt and in the pocket of big business. They’re gotten used to being the ‘elite’ of American society and think that they’re above the law.
  
  The US Constitution is supposed to protect the rights of the American people, but politicians have been using it for toilet paper for a couple decades now.
- Anonymous
  
  because too many people will be putting their “face in pillow* screaming. instead of getting off the couch and marching down to their elected official(s) office, calling out to their pompous, old, internet/god/gay-fearing political figures and punching them in the general area of genitals and/or face.
  - Alyssa Blindy
    
    Oh don’t worry. I only “put my face in a pillow and scream” for a few seconds. It doesn’t take that long to get back up after you get some anger out.
  - Artimus
    
    Yeah, except for the fact that the prime sponsor of PIPA is Patrick Leahy, a powerful Democrat from the 1st state to legislatively legalize gay marriage.
    
    The fact that so many people instantly reduce this to a binary of Republican vs. Democrat disgusts me, especially since it’s so blatantly and easily false. I expect this kind of thing out of Republicans at every turn, since they are nakedly in it for the money: what’s Nancy Pelosi’s excuse? Harry Reid? John Conyers? Chuck Schumer?
http://www.facebook.com/goawaynao Andrew Curtis

moving to canada.
- SororPisces
  
  Sorry. Harper’s got his own version of SOPA in the works. Try up over the Pole.
  - Guest
    
    FFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUU….
    I’m Canadian and why didn’t I know that sooner
    - Anonymous
      
      Because Canada.
      :0
  - Anonymous
    
    Really? Can you show me where he said that?(Its not sarcasm or anything, I really just want to know)
    - Scott V Foley
      
      Yeah, it seems like some of the more enthusiastic people on the internet always assume Harpers going to do whatever the states does, but I’ve never heard of this “SOPA-north” and neither has anyone I asked about it, my polisci prof included…
    - SororPisces
      
      Bill C-11
      http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/crp-prda.nsf/eng/h_rp01226.html
      It won’t “break the internet”, but partner this with provisions for “spying” on internet users in the omnibus crime bill, i.e. new laws for logging and the length of time data must be kept… I’ll have to give them a re-read myself, but I don’t think much has changed since last year’s versions.
- Bubbles
  
  theres a 7 year waiting list
Anonymous6169

The real question is, why hasn’t the authors of SOPA and PIPA both been charged with treason and executed by firing squad yet? Do we, the American People, really need to overthrow our government? Do we know to show our politicians what it was like for the Egyptian government?
- http://pulse.yahoo.com/_M3OEBV2TIGJWSYDEYFFZX7YSJQ Max
  
  Do we? Yes
http://twitter.com/RDisher Randy Disher

ACTA, SOPA, PIPA… none of these are gonna happen, chill..
SopaIsBullshit

Somebody shoot this motherfucker.
http://twitter.com/Robertoross Robert Ross

Committed to getting paid millions from hollywood*
http://twitter.com/sandiegohaunted blank rose

Those of you may not realize that a very grave and serious situation is brewing in the U.S. legislation. Two pieces of “freedom damning” internet legislation have been introduced, “SOPA and Protect ID.” I urge every American to read these pieces of legislation. In short if this legislation passes, the internet will be a completely unrecognizable from what we currently know. The fall out from this legislation removes basic freedom of speech, it impedes start up companies, and forces unnecessary restrictions on small website owners. SOPA and Protect ID, are brain children of Hollywood and music industry. What is worse, this legislation will fail in stopping the transmission of copyrighted materials.

Please don’t take my word for this read more yourself at http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wikipedia-blackout-websites-wikipedia-reddit-dark-wednesday-protest/story?id=15373251#.TxYdH6VO_ko On Wednesday 1/18/2012 a historic, chilling event will take place, and you will be affected by it. Many well known websites will shut down operation in protest for 12-24 hours. I urge you to tell a friend, family member or co-worker to join this boycott, NO INTERNET USE for 24 hours starting at 12:00 am Wednesday morning. I will be shutting down all of my personal websites in protest as well. If you know someone that uses the internet to make a living be forewarned this legislation will affect their livelihood. Please share this.
E Gieseke

thank you SOPA
- Dranbaker
  
  Ok Warner Bros….
  
  Jack Warner
  Harry Warner
  Albert Warner
  Sam Warner
  
  You can stop posting here and defending the SOPA act.
Anonymous

why???
Zbishop2

“Save American jobs.” Who the fuck is losing a job over this? Corporations who own record companies? Oh boo fucking hoo…its a dying business its time to move on and leave this decaying business model behind.
- Scott
  
  the regular people who work for those companies you insensitive prick
  - scottvfoleyisdumb
    
    you are dumb
- Scott
  
  Oh and it’s a dying industry largely due to online piracy…..fucking twat
  - Scott V Foley is a douche
    
    your retarded, musicians should just perform live instead of raping the american people of their hard earned money through garbage radio play. half of popular music today is auto-tuned and these douches cant perform live. So god forbid some idiot who likes terrible music wants to buy it off a russian mp3 site instead of itunes. your an idiot. noone and I mean noone is losing their job over piracy PRICK
  - Anonymous
    
    it is a dying business because it is no longer needed
FreedomIsNotFree

I came to America because She was supposed to be the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave, not the Land of the Censored and the Home of the Greedy. But with these bills even being PROPOSED is simply disgusting, and a slap in the face to all those men and women who have fought and died, and are still fighting and dying as we speak to defend this ‘just’ land. Have they signed on to protect an institution that restricts the flow of information and establishes widespread censorship?? I think not. Did all those patriots fight and die to protect a misled and corrupt institution bent on the seeking of personal profit?? I hope not. Dear America, if you have hopes on becoming another Nazi Germany, U.S.S.R., North Korea, or P.R.C., then please, by all means, pass this law. But look back in history and remember; you were conceived in Liberty by men and women escaping an oppressive government. Men and women seeking freedom; freedom of the press, freedom to circulate information, freedom from the tyrannies of a blind and unjust government. Is this America?
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_S7ZGJ7M2SVWRETR33EN6CIY5IQ Blah

That has to be fake as nothing can be done by something that hasn’t even been passed in the House, passed through the joint committee and then signed by the President.
AZStatesRights

I’d like to see a takedown of the entire .gov TLD as a civil disobedience protest. Maybe forward all http requests for .gov to http://www.china.org.cn. May require a hack or exploit to make this happen. Maybe Dan Kaminsky can figure out how to achieve this.
Dronbaker

This is Bull S*it, When is the government going to give people a break and let people live. I spent lots of my time and money on on college, loans etc. And now that i’m educated and ready to proceed with an online carrier they are trying to end my carrier before it even starts.

How bogus of them, Kinda sad how the guys doing illegal stuff effects everyone else in its path.
- Talby
  
  Your career ended before it started because you spelled it “carrier”
  - Guest
    
    Ok Talyban
Nate

It should be up to consumers and business owners if they want their information private.
The Doctor

i say we shut down the internet for a month to show protest
Francis

This is ridiculous. First we declare corporations as people, now they want a right to intangible property? This isn’t even a matter of who owns anything, it’s a matter of who can make the most money off of what isn’t theirs to begin with. Sure, SOPA is “intended” to stop online piracy, but in reality I seriously doubt major companies are getting THAT hurt by 13-year-old John Doe downloading his music from torrents. Grow the hell up, America, and let me keep my damn Reddit.
- http://twitter.com/Teh_Hicks Will Hicks
  
  even if it passes you can enter IP’s 194.71.107.15
- Scott
  
  You realize the record industry had been decimated by piracy right?
  - Scott V Foley is a douche
    
    You are a sad excuse for a human being. Please stop with your bullshit. The record industry has been decimated by people who can’t perform live!!! As a musician it is their job to perform and make the majority of their money on the road ENTERTAINING US!!! Those tours employ LOTS of people. You are obviously retarded and have not a brain cell left in your skull. I can’t feel bad for someone who makes a $1 million instead of $20 million. Being an artist is not about the money anyways but then again your favorite band is probably Nickelback so wtf would you know about the record industry anyway! I literally created a name just for you!
  - MatthewPaulSchlichting
    
    The INDUSTRY has been. Artists have not. Artists create music. Record labels do not.
Grimm Reaper

Not even all the gold in the world could sate and man`s greed or so it went… completely true there… and to those that think that you are safe because you arent from the US think again these laws are meant to kill foreing “piracy” too… because everyone that isnt rich and doesnt lie counting money in a senate chair is a petty thief
http://twitter.com/Teh_Hicks Will Hicks

The funny thing is…we can still type in the IP- try this 194.71.107.15
Angie

Another Dirty Politics trick… S***
sunrat

Congressman in my district wants to know what people think of SOPA.

Tell him what you think please!

https://www.facebook.com/questions/234853363255476/?qa_ref=qd
S.S

This is some good info, could help. The dude is kind of annoying though…. But great info.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJIuYgIvKsc
Mwernerbig

It really is the end of America. Now that all any law agency has to do is call you a terrorist, disappear you to Guantanamo and then while they have you captive without trial or rights the Businesses that be are going to come in and empty your accounts and make your family members pay for the fact that you were born. Scenario: Itunes discovers that one of the songs on your computer may have been downloaded without the correct rights “stolen” or “shared”. Itunes notifies the label that owns the rights to that song, they in turn contact the MPAA and suddenly it is discovered with the help from the FBI that you read an article about the Occupy Wall street movement and watched an “Anonymous” video on youtube. Congratulations, you are now a domestic terrorist.
SqueakyPenguin

could not have said it better myself.
Narutofans4Ever

Oh c’mon , their real objective is money. They want freakin’ money. That’s ALL!!! Seriously , those who saves lifes (policemoan , doctor , fireman) takes so little money , and those who fucks lifes(government) gets 100x times more than those who save lifes -_- , and they still want freakin money.
KiwiScented

If this gets passed, we may as well kiss our Freedom of Speech goodbye. Seriously, if we let them do this, what else will they take away? Sounds to me like the Entertainment Industry is just being a child throwing a fit. They can’t possibly be losing that much money to online piracy. If they are, please, enlighten me.

If this gets passed, I’m boycotting the Entertainment Industry, and I think everyone else should too. Then they’ll REALLY be losing a pretty penny. Greedy bastards.
Prankster

This SOPA thing is sick and the people who made it up and support it are evil, they might as well be every serial killer and the devils child. Online piracy is bad, but so is taking away someones ability to speak freely, express themselves, and even to learn. Letting this thing pass is like denying a person a job or even and education. My mother always tells me that the internet should be used to learn, and that’s what it was intended for, and soon it expanded and became for much more. Hundreds of years ago, a hand full of people decided they where sick of the English government and braved a vast see to get to a land they weren’t sure was even really there. Then they fought and fought some more to survive and for the one thing everyone has dreamed about, freedom. These disgusting bills aren’t just taking away piracy, they are taking away freedom that people have killed and died for. Countless of number of lives where wasted and stolen away, and now more is just being stolen away.

These people don’t get how much and average person struggles just to scrape by in the world. They don’t realize how much we put on the line to afford food, and house, and a car because now we need them. We the people- do not have money to be buying a dollar a song 20-40 dollars a movie or 30- 60 dollars for a game and we rely on the internet to be our only savior and discount giver because all these fat cat companies and politicians don’t care about how we struggle or what we do just to get by as long as we keep lining their filthy pockets with our money that we put or sweat, blood, body, back, stress, and pain into. I am a minimum wage worker that goes to college and drives a car, and has to eat and sometimes feed my own family, and I don’t have the money to waste on simple wants and I shouldn’t have too after all I do.

They already censor our shows, and take our money, and take our families raise our taxes, and now they want my freedom that I get from the internet, what more do these greedy black hearted people want? Next they will try passing a bill saying we owe them our souls too. If this SOPA thing passes, it won’t stop there, they won’t stop there, they won’t stop until they own the world like a tyrant.
anonymous

Fuck you america
many of you will die before this bullshit law passes
- the whore
  
  thats the spirit
http://hugclub.net/ hugclub.net

Boy that was quick. The checks must have cleared xD Sorry it’s been done already… I think money effects the body just as tangible drugs do. These guys seem to have money withdraw.
Zmanwarrior

I’m pretty sure the shelving was supposed to take place after the markup. I think. I may be wrong, but it was the House Majority Leader that said they wouldn’t vote on it until there was consensus, and the house vote (I’m pretty sure) is the next step after the Judiciary Committee.
Skid011

stop sopa, if they win the internet will be essentially useless
- http://susanais9.spaces.live.com susanai
  
  Now this a sensible sentence and one I wholly agree with. Pithy too.
SOPAupMYnuts

If SOPA passes, an uprising of the masses WILL ensue. The American government will be overthrown.
Anon

Doing what I can. Sites offline, dating profile offline, facebook changed, blog offline.
Ninabread

This has to be stopped! Even with the outcry, they’re blatantly ignoring the fact that people do not WANT this bill to be passed. Our IP will not be protected, but we will be held from the truth. Stop the censoring, contact your representative ASAP!
- http://susanais9.spaces.live.com susanai
  
  Unfortunately I have no ‘representative’ as I am an Australian….what happens to rest of the world?
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http://www.facebook.com/ClySuva Jaan Pullerits

I don’t care much for pirates in these matters. They find a new way to distribute stuff. They always have, they always will. I am more worried about sites for independent content such as youtube, soundcloud and bandcamp having to adopt some new draconian policy to insure the content uploaded is legal, which effectively phases out most of the independent content.
Neotoasty

Google should black out. Can you imagine the hysteria?
Anonymous

If this bill does go into place(probably won’t), there are things you can do. There is DESOPA for firefox, and if you know the IP address of a site, the SOPA can’t really stop you from going there. Like for the site http://www.atdhe.net, you can see it’s blocked, but if you put http://88.80.11.29/ in the search bar it’ll work.
Don’t really know how, not really tech savvy… if anyone could explain it to me i’d appreciate it.
- Adam Klaege
  
  SOPA offers government control of the DNS servers, which are kind of like the internet’s librarians. You go to the library to get a book. There are seemingly countless books there, but thankfully they are labeled and have look up systems and librarians. Now SOPA went and password protected all of the computers at the library, so you can’t look up a book’s location in the building without a librarian’s help, and paid off all the librarians to not help anyone named Elizke. However, if you memorized where a book is in the library (it’s IP) you can still find the book on your own if it exists.
  
  DNS servers match the web addresses of many sites and redirect to their physical network IP address for you. It’s a phone book of sorts, or a code breaker for the internet. This way you don’t have to remember a series of numbers, you just have to remember “youtube”. It would be very hard to stop and monitor all physical IP devices from connecting to the internet at this point, but managing a DNS server is something within the government’s ability if given the chance. It’s just a royal pain in the butt compared to the ease of use we know today.
  - Anonymous
    
    Thanks!
Notadimwit

This is absolutely ridiculous.

These companies don’t want to spend money finding innovative ways to protect their content or come to grips with the reality that changing technology means they also have to learn to adapt (BARNES AND NOBLES VS DIGITAL BOOKS ANYONE?)

They can’t come to grips with the fact that they’re losing profits because of a younger handsomer energetic machine known as generation Y, so they’re trying scare tactics(BRITISH AIRWAYS VS VIRGIN AIRLINES ANYONE) because they want to hold unto the tear jerking memories and the big profits they were still seeing when the internet was still in very early development.
They dragged their feet, kept pumping out the same crap no one is interested in paying to watch anymore instead of developing new ways to compete with an ever growing internet savvy world and now they’re like old crying relics who can’t figure out how to keep up or grasp the reality of change, so they go crying to the government.

Funny how government is only allowed to play handholding with large coorporations but it’s not ok for poor people to get “government hand outs”.
THIS is what happens when you mix capitalism with politics, it’s no wonder there’s so much anti America sentiment, apparently the government can’t be trusted to make common sense decisions, but I digress should I be hauled away and detained indefintely without trial (Educate yourself!:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indefinite_detention) Oh would you look at that, wikipedia is CENSORED.

As an artist myself, I lose money due to people copying my work, to me it’s just a reality of business, the fact that people can download my content for free is no different than if someone could download for $2 what I would normally sell for $50.
By all means I have the right to sue, but I’m not going to ask the stores to stop selling paintbrushes, this isn’t a fucking dictatorship or monopoly we live in a godamn free country and the internet is the last bit of free reign we have, the beurocracy needs to stay the fuck away from it.

Shoulds Barnes and Noble have called for a ban on the Kindle? or the App store as enablers selling the same books in digital form for much cheaper prices?
Should Gucci put a ban on people who manufacture “cheaper types of leather” and sell it to China because they’ll end up making knockoffs of their shoes and bags?

I mean logically, this is a complete JOKE. And whoever’s thinknig about signing this bill would have to either be a complete buffoon or feel in ode to whoever just payed them millions of dollars, surely you can’t buy policys in this country can you? WHAT? It’s been going on for years you say? That may explain our dimwitted patent system, oh will the attacks on technology ever cease?
I’m just holding my breath for the day they try to stop the resale of products you’ve bought.

They want to burn down the entire fence because there’s a bad link somewhere, that apparently they’re too incompetent to figure out how to patch up.
So they have no problem devasting an entire industry so a niche can rake in a few more millions and pump out more media bilge.

These big wig, CEOs, Execs and Managers that the Colleges keep pumping out to manage actual contributing creative people’s ideas, touting their family names, sirorities and masters degrees need to get a life, wake up, smell the coffee and FIND A WAY TO PROTECT THEIR CONTENT.
Apple figured out how to do it, why can’t they?

Don’t shut down the resoivor because someone figured out a way to bottle the water.

By the way, this argument is FREE to copy, paste and send to your [CENSORED] Congressman.
- http://susanais9.spaces.live.com susanai
  
  Talking of B & N…I live in the land of Oz and B&N will not sell me a book for my Nook because of some transport law. So Barnes and Noble only operate within America….not really what you would call INTERnet.
Inuluva8595

what happened to the America that didnt take bull like this?!!?! seriously, its high time we had another revolution. The american proletariat has been abused for far too long. we need to stop talking about it and actually DO something. what exactly are we waiting for??? there are more of us and less of them!!!! its OUR money that theyre taking. theyre taking the food out of OUR children’s mouths and knowledge out of their heads!!!!!!!!! with all due respect, apparently occupy wall street aint doin s**t if politicians are still tryin to pull stunts like this!!!! Lets just face it, we cant trust the government anymore!!!! AMERICA WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE, CUZ ITS BURNIN!!!!!!
- Nothing
  
  Actually, I had coffee under my nose as I read this. It smelled pleasant.
  
  Lets call the American populace the ocean, and we’ll call the American politicians… Little girls who throw a fit when they don’t get their way. I never did like those types of little girls.
  
  One day, a flock of little girls came to the beaches. Slowly, they took from the ocean it beautiful bounty of sea shells. They were really quite pretty sea shells too. Very shiny.
  
  The ocean did not pay much heed to it at first. It seemed okay for the ocean to be generous towards the little girls, who were very cute and promised the ocean many good things in return for the shells. The girls kept taking the shells from the ocean, and promising the ocean something good in return for these shells.
  
  For hours on end the little girls take the shells, but never do they return their promises. The ocean puts it off as nothing for now. Perhaps the little girls will pay back the ocean in time.
  
  The little girls come back the next day, and take more sea shells. The ocean asks the little girls why they’re not holding up their end of the bargain, and the little girls say that they recognized it was better for the ocean this way. The ocean grows weary of the little girls, and grows rough, but barely noticeably, especially in the eyes of the little girls.
  
  The little girls come back the next day, and feeling that the ocean is not going to react badly, they take even more sea shells, and slowly, the ocean is running dry, and the little girls have only repaid promises that they devised to gain more of these beautiful sea shells.
  
  Finally, the ocean draws itself back, and collects itself greatly, but the little girls think nothing of it, because they can see only the beautiful sea shells that they have collected from the ocean. The ocean recedes more and more, but slowly builds into a massive wave.
  
  The wave rushes towards the beach, violently, roaring with its might that it will have no more of this treachery, but the little girls are to caught up in their own world of beautiful sea shells taken from the ocean to hear, or see the oncoming wave.
  
  As the wave rumbles overhead the beach, casting its shadow over the shells, dulling their gleam and shine, the little girls look up and see the wave, but it is too late, for the ocean has spoken, and it will not hold back not that it has been harmed so greatly. It barrels into the beach, and washes the little girls out to sea. The little girls drown in a tragic accident, which is gruesome, and horrible, but they won’t take from the ocean any more.
  
  Eventually of course, more little girls will come to take from the ocean. For now however, the ocean is saved, and ruling itself justly, knowing what it needs once more.
  
  Of course, this is kind of drastic, even for an ocean, but, it sounds like something that could happen, especially considering how the little girls act.
  
  Mmm… I guess I should get back to my coffee now.
  - Space Goat
    
    I can’t not like this post.
http://coreyf.co.cc/ MrAgent075

This clearly shows the US Goernment in being too chicken shit to actually stand by the majority of its people.
- http://coreyf.co.cc/ MrAgent075
  
  *Government (that’s what happens when you type to quickly… :D)
Anonymous

Completely boycott the “entertainment” industry and see how fast they cry uncle.
Rpierce84

My letter to Representative Van Hollen (D-MD):

Dear Representative Van Hollen,

I hate to sound like a Republican, mainly due to the fact that I am not; however, in this case I found myself compelled to contact your office. While I myself do not watch or download pirated media content online and I do recognize the need to protect copyrighted material, the proposals laid forth in SOPA and PIPA go beyond the constitutional limits of the Federal, State and Local governments. Limiting access to the last bastion of true free speech in the United States, in my opinion, is deplorable.
I would suggest that when arguing the point with your conservative colleagues you bring up the following points:

1. Railing against the current Democratic Administration in the White House (i.e. President Obama) for limiting one’s constitutional rights while attempting to limit the last bastion of free speech (i.e. the Internet) is tantamount to historical hypocracy.

2. While we understand the right to protect the content of media providers such as the music, television and film industry is necessary to protect the value of our copyright laws and intellectual property rights laws; the fact that 60+ year old industries cannot understand that the market for media content is changing only lays credence to your belief in economic creative destruction. If these companies do not understand the new media market then they should fail like past uncompetitive industries have done. Instead of getting government intervention, of which they constantly remind us is detrimental to the free market model; they should instead modify their business model to reflect the changes in the free marketplace. I would suggest a Facebook model, one in which content is delivered free of cost to the individual while at the same time profitable for the content provider through expanded use of international, national and local advertising. Considering the predicted value of Facebook’s IPO, the business model seems to have its supporters in the free market.

3. Preventing someone from searching for pirated media content through online censorship is comparable to preventing Americans from buying writable DVD’s because they may or may not copy the DVD they received in the mail from Netflix. Just remember, while your intentions might be just and maybe your colleagues intentions may be just, this gives you the platform to both monitor and censor information and free speech to the American people. I would suggest prosecuting those who commit piracy, not those who may one day in the future possibly commit or benefit from piracy. This gets sticky when dealt with internationally operated servers of which I promise I will get to in my next bullet point.

4. The international ramifications of both SOPA and PIPA will reverberate throughout the planet. Will our government have the ability to shutdown the ability of Americans to view information from around the world through domestic censorship or will we, as we have done in the past, shut down servers in foreign lands. Imagine the complications that the State Department will have to deal with once we start shutting down foreign controlled websites. Now imagine the retribution for shutting down those websites. You see, the problem we are facing right now is not whether piracy can be contained, it is over which country, if any, is owner of the largest information source humanity has even known. And before people start ridiculing me over a lack in the belief of American Exceptionalism, let me remind them that there are a few special countries that have already instituted similar laws within their countries (China, North Korea, Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, Burma and so on). Now, as I can give you some personal experience, as I had lived in China for 7 years, you do not want their system. Thus, in summary of point 4, we can still live free without domestic and international privacy invasion or we can limit the information available to us internationally, irritate our friends throughout the world and start to act and look like those who we most despise when it comes to civil rights.

In summary, what you do here today, what you do with these votes, may not seem like a pivotal moment in American History but it is. You will be choosing state run censorship over freedom of speech, you will be protecting industries that are fearful to change even when it allows for higher profits and you will be shirking your Constitutional obligations.

Please keep the right to freedom of speech alive while not forgetting to prosecute those who commit the illegal actions. Just remember, not everyone is a potential content pirate, only those who commit piracy are content pirates. Do not punish and censor those who have not committed a crime.

With Sincere Regards,

Your Constituent,

Robert Lowell Pierce
- Rpierce84
  
  I guess it won’t allow me to keep going on… Oh well, let’s just say the letter started getting good at point 4.
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Sam

I dont read all comments but if you dont try censorship on yourself you never know what evil it is. We have Comunism in our country for 40ty years and it destroy all what we created before ! And it was only for some who say”This cant be”.
So if somebody support your americans censor policy then he will really sick. Coz its made by some “comapyn” not from your people.
My parents hopes that America ones stop this type of thougt but i think i was wrong like them.

Sorry for my bad english but i need to write this, you going to new era of dictatorship and you dont realize it.
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Nate

I think that while online piracy is a very real and serious issue, SOPA and any other similar legislation is a response that is innappropriate for the situation. It’s like trying to shoot a fly with a shotgun – you’re going to have a ton of collateral damage.
Tek

Maybe if torrenters would stop downloading pirated software, tv shows and movies, bills like SOPA wouldn’t come up. Stealing is stealing, just because it’s easy and anonymous doesn’t make it less of a theft
- Sam
  
  Yes, stealing is stealing thats right. I totaly agree. But block website like Wikia coz some dumbass link to comentaries some link to crack web page is bad. And yes, a stole some games when i was young but now i can say i have thme payed on steam (some of them in box version coz they have nice goty/gold edition) but thats not give to somebody right to block web page with instructions and tips for games only becouase some sucker put link to piracy page.
  
  For example: http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/The_Elder_Scrolls_IV:_Oblivion
  
  I hope you feel censorship for yourself like my parnets must. And i hope once those “companies” get somebdy nera to you jailled only for his picture of his favourite music band.
  
  As i said, you never know what is censorship…..
  - Sam
    
    And sorry for my bad english.
- rob
  
  no way sir
- Uugh
  
  THEN THE COMPANIES/GOVERNMENT NEED TO FIGURE OUT A WAY TO MAKE PEOPLE WHO DISTRUBUTE THE CONTENT AND DOWNLOAD THE CONTENT LIABLE.
  
  Just because it’s the internet doesn’t make it any different than how you would handle anything in your neighborhood, stealing is stealing, so what? If you can get away with it you will.
  If you’re caught you pay or do the time.
  If it’s organized stolen distrubution, you shut the ring down.
  
  What you DON’T do is block people from entering the ring, putting the gas in the car to get to the ring or going down the road with the big sign saying BLACKMARKET RING THIS WAY to begin with!
Real

Foreign thieves? Isn’t that xenophobic? Like saying dumbass fucking Americans.
- Rlgarlitz
  
  or like sayign smelly god damn foreigners
Mrslickt

I think instead of the whole “SOPA” / “PIPA” fight, and the whole left / right / democrap / rethuglican thing… Perhaps we AmeriKans should just bow to our King Obama and his court, complete with court jester Lamar Smith! Get rid of the constitution, enslave the masses, take from each all they can give and give to each only what they need… Oh wait, that was tried… In Egypt, Rome, Babylon, and a couplke thousand years more recently the USSR and Europe. I see how wildly successful Keynesian economics and Marxist policy worked there… We better bring that kind of success to AmeriKa! HAIL TO THE KING! God help us.
- Mark Porter
  
  The President is in the EXECUTIVE branch.
  Congress is the LEGISLATIVE branch and while I know it’s all so easy to blame the president for rain on our day off, the King Obama nonsense is a bunch of crap. Congress hatched it, Congress built it, Congress is trying to pass it like the turd that it is. But hell, lets blame the President! He is the all powerful Oz right?
http://www.facebook.com/mattwo7 Mat Bars

“saves American jobs”

Orly?

How many jobs were lost to piracy? How much money are big names even losing from piracy. Further how much MORE are they losing combating piracy?
Morten, Denmark

All the way from Denmark:
What the hell is going on here?! Are we really going to let SOPA get passed, so that the American Government can control the Internet?! This is just a joke!
Imagine the damage there will be, if Facebook, Google Yahoo etc. all moves to Europe, South America or something like that. A huge loss of workplaces and a huge loss in income tax to the government.
It’s going to hit you right back in the face. Bloody politicians! “We aren’t getting a big enough piece of the pie, so we’re just going to make a law, that states: Give us more money, or we’re going to shut you down!”

Worst law ever!
Jasontkk299

A message to all non-US residents: STFU, we know, and we’re working on it. Hence all this hoopla. You gain nothing by ranting about how the US is a fascist dictatorship isn’t helping and is 90% of the time the pot calling the kettle black. If you didn’t like us, support us, or want us to succeed before, you probably won’t now.

A message to all US Leftists blaming the Republicans: STFU, you’re full of crap. Both SOPA and PIPA are BROADLY bipartisan. All of the most powerful Democrats, including Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, John Conyers and Chuck Schumer, are all co-sponsoring these bills. That means they not only support them, but have a major interest in seeing them passed into law. The longer you insist on exclusively vilifying people who look and act like your Dad, the longer you’re going to be taken advantage of and used as a political tool for the cool, young, sensitive, hip people who also want to enslave and rob you.

There are two sides at work here, both with competing power bases but seeking the same thing.
- Cuntaxe
  
  “You gain nothing by ranting about how the US is a fascist dictatorship isn’t helping”
  
  Yes it is. Althought there is a hypocritical element to it.
HappyHallelujah

It’s thanks to the internet that these companies are making as much profit as they are, people discover their products when they otherwise wouldn’t even know they existed. Take “My Little Pony” for example, do you think thousands of grown men would have watched it if it weren’t for the internet? Not likely. And they are probably making tons of cash just selling stuff related to the show.
SOPA kills puppies

QUICK, EVERYONE DOWNLOAD TOR AND HELP BUILD ON THE UNREGULATED INTERNET. EXPAAAAAAND
- MrElectrifyer
  
  FYI, TOR is already censored, so I suggest thinking twice if you wanna go in that direction :p
Anonymous

SOPA will be the catalyst for web 3.0
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Chilly8

As I have said before, Lamar Smith is very much like British MP Allistair Dormandy of the 1960s. He was hell bent on passing the Marine Offences Act to take offshore pirate broadcasters off the air.

Just like with the 1967 Marine Offences Act in Britain, Sopa is not about “pirate” broadcasting, but about free speech.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1668274827 Stephanie Hadley

In a perfect world everyone would rally against the ridiculous laws flung their way, people have in the past, but of course with people seemingly getting ever more stupid by the second in the youth of both the UK and USA. It seems no one realises that they won’t come home and check their Facebook, they won’t be able to resort to a laugh on /b/. There will be NO platform for escapism without being questioned, interfering with American security, or being deemed as a terrorist because you’re a usual, innocent human being listening to music after a 9 hour shift of taking it in the ass from authority. Why let them carry on, and make your life an increased living hell?
Anonymous

BS artists…I shouldn’t say artists…that insults real artists…liars, thieves, treasonists,
and nazis. Period.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PXX4S66KOUIGIKTTIMV3CBGO7Y Colin

Excellent piece in today’s GUARDIAN, at
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2012/jan/17/stop-sopa-or-web-will-go-dark
It explains that the MAFIAA want to regain control of the information distribution system called the Internet, so they can make sure their corporate views are heard while dissenters are not.
But it fails to mention that politicians around the world watched the Arab Spring last year and realised that Twitter etc could totally spoil their day.
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Cuntaxe

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Let the fucking yankee doodle masturbating shitheads isolate their country with empty threats……I can’t wait.

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Cuntaxe

Time to rape the USA. And Americans will help us do it because they are getting raped by their own government too.

Yours truly,

Cuntaxe
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Anjune

This is the kind of stuff that pisses me off about our congress, they waist to much time trying to chip away at our rights as citizens that they don’t put enough time into what they SHOULD be doing to make this place better. But what do you expect from rich people that only really care about what’s best for themselves, who get FREE stuff that is payed for from the tax payers pockets.
Oscar Löfstedt

It’s insane how the people sitting there debating about this has the same birth date as the dinosaurs. And the same knowledge about the internet aswell. -.-
Eatshit

Fuck copyright and fuck intellectual property; information is free.
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Anonymous56

OOOOH..HELL TO THE NOOOO…THOS BACK STABBING SONS OF BITCHES…
Kanra

I’m really amazed that Lamar fucking Smith hasn’t been lynched to death by internet junkies yet.
Anonomous

Stop trying to fuck with the internet
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If we really wish to stop this, the only option is the nuclear one. Everybody boycott the movie and music industry until they break.

We must stop renting movies, buying movies, going to the movies. No CDs, iTunes whatever until they cave.

If you just whine and keep buying their shit as they ram this down your throat the battle is over. We lose.

Having Google or Wikipedia challenge this is not enough. We need a boycott of the movie theaters for a weekend or two. The movie people would freak. Do it for a month and we will never see this shit ever again.

They need our money more than we need their IP. We need to take them to the woodshed and give them a lesson they never forget.
Anonymous

As the entertainment industry grew, an unholy alliance developed between Hollywood and Congress. Politicians have become corrupted by contributions from the entertainment industry, and now seem to be falling all over each other in their eagerness to serve their Hollywood directors. The Rights Groups with their political allies are now so powerful they have governments the world over jumping to placate their every whim, negotiating secret treaties just for them, even as they conspire to control our computers and cripple the internet to enhance their profits.

Every time a change to copyright law is proposed, it is in response to demands from powerful lobbies. When have you ever seen a grass roots demand for broadened rights, stricter enforcement, or longer copyright duration? Never! Legislation reflects neither the will nor priorities of the majority. People see this happening over and over again, feeling helpless while watching their rights being eroded away. They are not organized, have no lobbyists working for them and no money to buy the politicians with – nor should they need any of that! Their representatives have failed them.

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Zen and the Art of Copyright Legislation
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Anonymous

WE WANT TO SHARE with each other. THAT is the POINT!

SHARING is exactly what the INTERNET is intended for. otherwise, why bother??

we’ve been brainwashed into a depraved lifestyle of profligate greed and conspicuous consumption… war is peace, ignorance is strength, freedom is slavery, greed is good, sharing is piracy, corporations are ‘people’??

well to hell with all that inhumane depravity.

if the greedy corporate parasites can’t figure out an economic model that SUPPORTS SHARING – instead of criminalizing normal human behavior – then too bad for the parasitic middlemen & degenerate profiteers. good riddance i say!

as one Digg commenter put it:

“it sucks being a candlestick maker in a electric light world. UNLESS you can ‘get control of the government’ to pass laws to ‘protect candle sticks’ and attack electric lights. that is what the recording industry is doing; paying congress to protect their candle-making whilst attacking the electric light makers and internet users of the world.

SHARING is NOT piracy – it is precisely what we SHOULD BE DOING.

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