[media]http://vimeo.com/31100268[/media]
[quote]The video above discusses the Senate version of the PROTECT IP Act, but the House bill that was introduced TODAY is much much worse.
It'll give the government new powers to block Americans' access websites that corporations don't like. The bill would criminalize posting all sorts of standard web content -- music playing in the background of videos, footage of people dancing, kids playing video games, and posting video of people playing cover songs.
This legislation will stifle free speech and innovation, and even threaten popular web services like Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook.
The bill was just introduced: We need to act now to let our lawmakers know just how terrible it is. Will you fill out the form above to ask your lawmakers to oppose the legislation?[/quote]
[url]http://fightforthefuture.org/pipa/[/url]
[quote]PROTECT-IP is a bill that has been introduced in the Senate and the House and is moving quickly through Congress. It gives the government and corporations the ability to censor the net, in the name of protecting "creativity". The law would let the government or corporations censor entire sites-- they just have to convince a judge that the site is "dedicated to copyright infringement." The government has already wrongly shut down sites without any recourse to the site owner. Under this bill, sharing a video with anything copyrighted in it, or what sites like Youtube and Twitter do, would be considered illegal behavior according to this bill. According to the CBO, this bill would cost us $47 million tax dollars a year — that's for a fix that won't work, disrupts the internet, stifles innovation, shuts out diverse voices, and censors the internet. This bill is bad for creativity and does not protect your rights.[/quote]
Ah hell naw.
Youtube pretty much made a lot of hip-hop retarded retards now famous.
The fuck is this bill smoking?
Misspelled "Protect" in the title can a mod fix that real quick please.
Fuck. Well, I live in Canada, how would that work?
[QUOTE=Rethill34;33020434]Fuck. Well, I live in Canada, how would that work?[/QUOTE]
Not sure really but I assume Canada's government would see that they could pass such a bill and try to do it themselves, but who really knows.
[QUOTE=MasterG;33020448]Shit, the UK sucks America's dick. I give it 6 months before David Cameron is trying to implement this as part of "The Big Society"[/QUOTE]
Nah, we already had this fiasco a while ago but luckily it was nipped in the bud.
It's not gonna pass, internet bills never pass.
[QUOTE=MasterG;33020448]Shit, the UK sucks America's dick. I give it 6 months before David Cameron is trying to implement this as part of "The Big Society"[/QUOTE]
Not like it'll stop anything. Buy a VPS in a different country and do all your downloading through it.
Another dumb attempt to stop piracy.
DUDE. Fuck this. I'm so sick of our government trying to fuck everything up
This is directly violating the First Amendment, still not understood by our own government. Now how FUCKING SAD is that?
This won't stop piracy, all it will do is hinder free expression.
I've seen an insane amount of shit in the last 2 years or so about "omg new internet bill will CHANGE THE WHOLE INTERNET omgomgomg" and nothing ever passes.
Sure, our government is fucking stupid, quite often, but people aren't that dumb to let all this shit pass.
[QUOTE=Spherexd;33020365]Youtube pretty much made a lot of hip-hop retarded retards now famous.
The fuck is this bill smoking?[/QUOTE]
That's why, they want to safeguard music from idiots for our future generations.
Well that's Americans fucked then.
There is no way this could ever be enforced, quit shitting your nipples off people.
It's gonna happen. All the MAFIAA has to do is bleat about how pirates hurt the economy and hurt their campaign contribution fund and Congress will be eating out of their fucking hands. Congress hasn't said "No" to big business interests since FDR.
[QUOTE=gazzy_GUI;33031926]There is no way this could ever be enforced, quit shitting your nipples off people.[/QUOTE]
It could if YouTube/Facebook/Whatever enforces it. For example, if you use copyrighted material in a video, instead of letting it be taken to court, YouTube just deletes the video.
Obviously that is better than being taken to court, but that's still half of YouTube deleted.
Poor guys if it passes.
Yea, the internet will never be the same. Just like last time, right?
[QUOTE=Elfy;33034184]Poor guys if it passes.[/QUOTE]
Come and take us back, Brits!
I think this is going to bring services like VPNs into the mainstream. Like, people will adjust to the idea of paying this much for internet access, and this VPN premium for "real" internet. If anything good comes out of it, hopefully it will be circumvention of blacklists and censoring as routine and mainstream as drinking used to be during Prohibition.
This bill is unconstitutional. I doubt it will go far.
[QUOTE=MasterG;33020448]Shit, the UK sucks America's dick. I give it 6 months before David Cameron is trying to implement this as part of "The Big Society"[/QUOTE]
If he does. I will personally visit Mr. Cameron with a twelve-foot bargepole and order him to bend over.
[editline]30th October 2011[/editline]
Funny how i-Oh you can't hear me too well. WELL I LOVE HOW YOUR GOVERNMENT'S EASIEST WAY TO GET RID OF A PROBLEM IS TO STICK YOUR FINGERS IN YOUR EARS, GO NEENER NEENER AND BAN THE SHIT OUT OF IT.
[QUOTE=Dr. Evilcop;33034739]Come and take us back, Brits![/QUOTE]
My pleasure ol' chap!
[img]http://www.foreignstudents.com/sites/default/files/images/Royal_Family/Prince_Phillip_of_Edinburgh.jpg[/img]
The more shit like this pops into our world, the less I want to live on it.
well, time to get used to tor and aurora
If this passes, the [i]"Deep Web"[/i] will still be an option guys
Looks like Facepunch is going under the surface
If this passes I'm moving to Canada.
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