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Postby Yoshi Boo 118 » August 22nd, 2013, 4:53 pm

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the ... art-of-it/

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petiti ... 3/LMzMVrQF

It would make anyone who streams copyrighted material possibly guilty of a felony charge and placed in prison. Please help stop this.
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Postby Newgeneration » August 22nd, 2013, 6:13 pm

I hate how they still try to push it through even after it failed the first few times. Not only that, but they try to hide the law being passed so that SOPA has a better chance of making it back through. Of course a politician is just as dirty, and lies about as much as a lawyer, but this is ridiculous.
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Postby ~MP3 Amplifier~ » August 23rd, 2013, 12:36 am

Is this US only still? Or is SOPA international? I can't remember. Either way, it seems not only the UK government are trying to sneak laws in behind our backs. It's absolutely disgusting behaviour.
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Postby Yoshi Boo 118 » August 23rd, 2013, 4:20 am

This is international AFAIK.
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Postby Bogdan » August 23rd, 2013, 4:53 am

Yoshi Boo 118 wrote:This is international AFAIK.

Actually it was going to affect only US-hosted sites, which yes, also has effects on foreigns that use these sites (by thinking it will be like the previous one). I think this won't pass, no CISPA, ACTA, PIPA and (previous)SOPA passed, so this one may not either.
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Postby thing » August 23rd, 2013, 10:00 am

After being rejected so many times, they keep bring this back and are trying to find ways to just sneak it through.

The only people this will benefit are company's that have copyrighted characters or products or the government because if this passes, people can be fined and go to jail for this.
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Postby darthbrowser » August 23rd, 2013, 6:18 pm

While I agree that any such law would be unconstitutional, keep in mind that the chances of such a law being enforced are almost null.

There is a reason private internet security companies, such as Kaspersky or ESET, achieve unexpectedly high profits when the government also outlaws many internet threats such as viruses or Trojans. You don't see private companies enforcing laws in other domains - mercenaries acting as police, for example.

It is simply impossible for traditional laws to have any noticed effect on the internet. The difficulty of catching and prosecuting those convicted of internet crimes is astronomical, and the legal system was not designed with anything resembling the internet in mind.

Online copyright infringement is already against the law, yet piracy obviously runs rampant -which is why they tried to pass SOPA/PIPA in the first place. These suggestions are little then government sycophantism for lobbyist corporations, they would have no realized effect.
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Postby *Emelia K. Fletcher » August 25th, 2013, 3:14 am

Jesus ♥♥♥♥ goddamn Christ it's been almost two years


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Postby Master1.0 » August 25th, 2013, 2:07 pm

MessengerOfDreams wrote:Trying to imagine NintendoCapriSun imprisoned in Guantanamo for making let's plays. It's as awful as it sounds.

Now sure, the guy has had a couple infringements in the past, but those were for posting entire episodes of something on TV to youtube. People still get in trouble for it now, but SOPA is basically saying "♥♥♥♥ you, we don't like entertainment."
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