The end of free internet: US Senate Committee Approves Internet “Blacklist” Bill

[Strongbad]

If I got a court order from overseas to shut my site down I'd say "lol no" and keep doing whatever I was doing. Seriously, fuck that. The US court has no sway anywhere else when it comes to the internet.

[Biotoxsin]

[QUOTE=hypno-toad;27473549]Piracy is not thievery, it's piracy, and even that term was created just to make it look dark. If they deserve the money then they'd get it. If you make a shitty product, and charge too much for it then people are going to simply pirate your product, whatever that product might be.

In the case of music, piracy hurts nobody but record companies; the artists make the vast bulk of their money by touring, and record companies are nothing but dirty thieves in the first place, no harm done. Movies: Well, clearly since movies are still being made despite the "crippling" amount of piracy I can't imagine that many people are being hurt by it. Maybe the movie industry will just need to settle more a slight reduction in their stacks and stacks of cold hard cash, its an industry with a ridiculous profit margin and piracy barely puts a dent it in. take into account that people didnt even have VHS or DVDs and the movie industry got along just fine by being shown in the theater, and box office hits hit way harder than they used to.

Now, software companies do not need to worry about piracy very often. Most of their money comes from legitimate business licenses, there's simply no way for an entire company to pirate software. Now, for the individual seat licenses, if the company makes a program that is not worth the pricetag, they'll simply need to try harder next time. [U]If somebody pirates your shitty program, then the chances are they were never going to buy it in the first place[/U]. If you make a crappy product, and somebody pirates it, then it happened because you made an inferior product and sold it for way more than it was worth. You wouldn't have made money from them anyways.

Piracy is not in the same category as stealing considering it's impossible to actually steal copied data, so your "stealing is wrong" argument is null in this case, especially since companies dont even really lose any money over it. Now, what is fundamentally wrong is lobbyists and governments abusing their power, trying to throttle control from a system's whos sole purpose is the exchange of information. For the fact that's it's not even stealing, people are going to have to try a lot harder if they are going to force their corrupt principles down peoples throats[/QUOTE]

Seriously, look at products like 3DsMax, hardly anyone can actually afford to buy it. Yet, everyone seems to have it.

[editline]18th January 2011[/editline]

[QUOTE=Strongbad;27512685]If I got a court order from overseas to shut my site down I'd say "lol no" and keep doing whatever I was doing. Seriously, fuck that. The US court has no sway anywhere else when it comes to the internet.[/QUOTE]

If it's a .com domain they can shut down you down with your DNS

[Gmod_Fan77]

[QUOTE=Strongbad;27512685]If I got a court order from overseas to shut my site down I'd say "lol no" and keep doing whatever I was doing. Seriously, fuck that. The US court has no sway anywhere else when it comes to the internet.[/QUOTE]

True, but the US isn't saying they'll enforce this everywhere, they say they will enforce it only in the US and its territories.

Even if they did mean to force it on the rest of the world, their diplomats would be laughed at. The US may be a global power, but its court and legislature has the authority of a toothpick in other world powers.

[Saren]

But they will get owned by 9000 proxies.