Retreat from piracy bill

Will E Worm

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Sens. Rubio, Blunt retreat from online piracy bill amid protests

Congressional support for controversial online piracy legislation eroded dramatically on Wednesay in the face of an unprecedented online protest supported by tech titans such as Google, Wikipedia and Facebook.

Several senators withdrew their support from the Senate's Protect IP Act, including Tea Party favorite Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), an elected member of his party's leadership.

Thousands of websites went dark on Wednesday to protest the two Internet piracy bills, the House's Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Senate's Protect IP Act (PIPA). At least two California Democrats, Rep. Anna Eshoo and Zoe Lofgren, joined the protests by blacking out their web sites.

Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), a leader of Senate conservatives, also came out against the bills, calling them "misguided bills that will cause more harm than good."

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they can wipe their ass with it.

I am all for fighting piracy and all but this is NOT the way to do it.

Edit: why you should support it -> http://www.fark.com/
 
Check this± https://twitter.com/#!/herpderpedia

Those tweets are showing whats wrong with society. All screaming hell instead of reading into what is going on.

oh fuck off wikipedia, i had shit to look up. Fuck you and your shitey protest

FUCK YOU WIKIPEDIA. FUCK YOU!

If Wikipedia gets shut down.. It's all Obama's fault and that's gay as hell

WHOSE FUCKING BRIGHT IDEA WAS IT TO SHUT DOWN WIKIPEDIA IN MY TIME OF NEED?! #CUNTS

Idiots.
 

PirateKing

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Entertainment lobbyists fight hard for this but it's a short term solution to their dying, outdated industry. When was a few million prioritized over pushing for innovation & long term sustenance?

SOPA is death to the internet. Kill it with fire.
 

Legzman

what the fuck you lookin at?
I don't know all the ins and outs of the bill but it's mainly about censorship which no one wants.
 
Check this± https://twitter.com/#!/herpderpedia

Those tweets are showing whats wrong with society. All screaming hell instead of reading into what is going on.









Idiots.

All a bunch of plagiarists, the lot of them. Oh, God!!! Wikipedia is down, what shall I do for that research project I was writing???!!! :facepalm: The cut and pasting from that site is an epidemic in colleges and universities today.

Anyway, Wikipedia is right on the matter, either way.
 

Shifty

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Such a great story. This is a real victory!

When you have staunch supporters of piracy bills basically recanting and making statements like "well we really don't understand it" and "it's better to take awhile and think this thing through before acting" (paraphrasing) ... you've won.

The minds out there have laid out the consequences ... when joined by powerhouses like wikipedia and Google ... they got results. :thumbsup:

Of course, they could have set up tents somewhere. That probably would have had a similar effect.
 
Check this± https://twitter.com/#!/herpderpedia

Those tweets are showing whats wrong with society. All screaming hell instead of reading into what is going on.









Idiots.

Wikipedia being (fake) down didn't bother me, because I disabled Wikipedia's JavaScript and then scanned the two scripts and ad-blocked the mask.

I guess there aren't too many geeks out there, which all I can say to the idiots who post crap on Twitter.

Protest blocking your rights of passage? Go around silly fuckers, go around!

Though I'm not... I'm happily insulting some kid who said if Wikipedia shuts down, she'll have to drop out of school... How fucking dumb! Did I have Wikipedia? No, I had Encarta 95 on a CD-ROM, which was bundled with a slow PC and I used it for a few years (outdated). :1orglaugh
 

Ace Bandage

The one and only.
Wikipedia being (fake) down didn't bother me, because I disabled Wikipedia's JavaScript and then scanned the two scripts and ad-blocked the mask.

I guess there aren't too many geeks out there, which all I can say to the idiots who post crap on Twitter.

Protest blocking your rights of passage? Go around silly fuckers, go around!

Though I'm not... I'm happily insulting some kid who said if Wikipedia shuts down, she'll have to drop out of school... How fucking dumb! Did I have Wikipedia? No, I had Encarta 95 on a CD-ROM, which was bundled with a slow PC and I used it for a few years (outdated). :1orglaugh

 
Check this± https://twitter.com/#!/herpderpedia

Those tweets are showing whats wrong with society. All screaming hell instead of reading into what is going on.









Idiots.


Idiots

That's about it Roald, these people really have no clue what this is really about. They claim its about piracy but this is NOT the way to go about it. Its about a our civil rights and what we have a right to and this bill is headed in the wrong direction. And actually, wouldn't you think that the government has more important things to worry about than a "business" that can't solve their own problems. So they figure they will lobby the government to help them solve their own fucking problems. The Entertainment industry just could not see the forest for the trees and see that the electronic frontier is now and THE FUTURE. Technology has changed all that, a similar thing happened a long time ago. The movie studios refused to accept that television was the future and instead of embracing and getting on board with it, they poo-pooed it and then television practically ruined their business. The same applies here, they just did not want to accept the technology changed the world and the way we view and see things. Look at radio, now we have podcasts, internet radio, satellite radio, and services like pandora. But instead of embracing this technology, they view it as the enemy and refuse to adjust. Soo..this is their own fucking fault, fuck em and fuck SOPA.
 
Video all about how these bills will work:



No doubt this evil on the part of Big Brother. No wonder those fascist pigs Boxer and Feinstein supported this.
 

Legzman

what the fuck you lookin at?
^^^WHAT? They have a history of abusing their powers? No, you've got our government confused with...well, our government! :D

If either of these bills pass the internet will become a real boring place. And forget about any porn!
 
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