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Omnimaga => News => Topic started by: Juju on January 18, 2012, 12:32:01 am
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Today, January 18th, 2012, several websites will black out to raise awareness against the SOPA and PIPA bills, including Wikipedia and Reddit. Omnimaga won't make exception and will black out its downloads section all day from midnight to midnight (Eastern time). We also installed a Stop Censorship banner over the logo on the default theme. (Yeah, it would be kinda boring if we blacked out the whole site, and we feared we would lose some users. Sorry about that.)
We won't let those bills pass, as Omnimaga, like a bunch of your favorite sites, will probably get censored because it won't met hard-to-meet copyright requirements. Act now and call your congress representative in your state, or, if you're not american, the US state department.
Read more about the whole thing here. (http://americancensorship.org/)
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fantastic!
i'm glad that we can be a part of this =)
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^This. Hopefully the Internet gets listened to.
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Wikipedia looks great, BoingBoing looks great, Google also has a warning but is obviously not down.
However, Reddit seems to be up :S
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Reddit is supposed to go down only from 8 AM to 8 PM. Most likely 2 PM to 2 AM of your timezone. Cemetech also has a warning/black bg.
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wikipedia looks awesome
EDIT:
I changed my avatar :)
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I'l change my avatar, too!
(even parts of the german politics are like wikipedia: http://www.piratenpartei.de/ (http://www.piratenpartei.de/)) ;D
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nice avatar p2 :)
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hopefully this stops pipa and sopa completely....
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thanx, flyingfish! :)
Even Sorunomes site is down, now! :D
(sorunome.de)
I really hope they'll stop damn SOPA!
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Hopefully everyone behind this bill gets freaked out. They can't ignore the fact the entire Internet is against them.
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Hopefully everyone behind this bill gets freaked out. They can't ignore the fact the entire Internet is against them.
/me protests!
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Yeah!
It's unbelievable, how many guys are against it!
But here, in Germany, we all don't know anything!!
nothing in radio/newspaper/...
I only got known it seing it in the internet!
I wish every page would be like the one of the "Chaos Computerclub"! (http://www.ccc.de/)
(They are freaks, always hacking some systems and then telling the newspapers, how easy it is to do that, and where the weakest points at the hacked sites are)
And also another german politics group is down now: http://www.gruene.de/
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mozilla is against it: http://www.mozilla.org/
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thanx, flyingfish! :)
Even Sorunomes site is down, now! :D
(sorunome.de)
I really hope they'll stop damn SOPA!
Yeah, I'm against it, even thought my website probally wouldn't be affected, youtube, instructables, forums etc. would be.....and I wouldn't like that.
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sorunome:
I made you 2 avatars ;)
(http://img.removedfromgame.com/imgs/sorunome1.jpg)
(http://img.removedfromgame.com/imgs/sorunome2.jpg)
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I stole p2's avatar
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I stole p2's avatar
:D
YAY!
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Majong too? O.O (http://img.removedfromgame.com/imgs/majong.bmp)
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Oh yeah i forgot to mention that minecraft is also in on it!
Thumbs up to minecraft! :D
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Black Out! End SOPA/PIPA! :)
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Black Out! End SOPA/PIPA! :)
You got that right, bro!
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sorunome:
I made you 2 avatars ;)
Thanks! :)
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sorunome:
I made you 2 avatars ;)
Thanks! :)
Your welcome!
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I just finished blacking out my blog... TAKE THAT SOPA!!
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If anyone wants an anti-SOPA avatar and doesnt want to make it himself, I have links to several in #omnimaga-spam ;)
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I wanted to black out TotKotM page, but I can't use HTML anywhere on Bandcamp and I fear hiding the album would mess things up.
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I wanted to black out TotKotM page, but I can't use HTML anywhere on Bandcamp and I fear hiding the album would mess things up.
You could black out your youtube channel ;)
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I love the blackouts. :D
Although I noticed the mobile version of Wikipedia isn't blacked out. I'm glad Omni is supporting the Anti-SOPA/PIPA movement. :D
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On January 17 a Republican aide on Capitol Hill said that the protests were making their mark, with SOPA having already become "a dirty word beyond anything you can imagine."
Looks like some progress is being made ;D
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I wonder how many sites actually joined the blackout. I looked around a bit this morning, and the only one I found was wikipedia. I thought Youtube and Facebook were going to be part of it as well, but when I checked earlier that did not seem to be the case.
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I heard something like 7000. Mojang, Reddit, Wikipedia, I Can Has Cheezburger, Omnimaga, Julosoft, my blog, etc. Lots of them.
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The Oatmeal (http://theoatmeal.com) and XKCD (http://xkcd.com/) join today's fight. Go web comics! :D
For your viewing pleasure:
(http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/sopa.png)
My VPS, withgusto (http://withg.us.to/), also joins in the blackout too. :) (Although there's not much content to begin with, and it was black in the first place. :P)
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xkcd, Cyanide and Happiness, Brentalfloss, and VG Cats were participating (For those that don't know, these are web comics) :P
Curious that Facebook didn't though :/
(http://e.static.memegenerator.net/cache/instances/400x/12/13056/13369725.jpg)
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Curious that Facebook didn't though :/
Yeah, they would be adversely affected too. They probably didn't do it so they could let people share and spread the anti-SOPA stuffs, just like Twitter.
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MS Paint Adventures (another webcomic) participated and even made the blackout part of the story :D (one of the characters goes to sleep and everything fades to black...)
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Curious that Facebook didn't though :/
Yeah, they would be adversely affected too. They probably didn't do it so they could let people share and spread the anti-SOPA stuffs, just like Twitter.
Perhaps. It might've been more effective to change the layout and colors though. The iconic blue-white changed to all black XD
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Hm... I notice the wikipedia page on SOPA is not blacked out... Or is it just me?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act
the page on PIPA isn't blocked either
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PIPA
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Here is a list of sites that joined the blackout, but this is a huge page, so don't open it if you have a slow computer:
http://sopastrike.com/on-strike/
Omnimaga's download section is listed there, but for some reasons Cemetech isn't.
The reason why FB and Twitter were not shut down is most likely to spread the world about the blackout and anti-SOPA messages. As for the two Wikipedia pages linked by Yunhua98, it's most likely because it's about the SOPA/PIPA themselves and they wanted to still allow people to get informed.
EDIT Pics of the sites I visit that did the blackout. Possibly the second biggest image to be ever uploaded on Omni, after Metroid II Evolution map. :P Sorry for bad JPG quality, but PNG size was just too large.
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Found this insightful:
[ Invalid YouTube link ]
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Megaupload was shut down! O.O
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Megaupload was closed today by the FBI
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- The Megaupload.com site was shut down and the Justice Department on Thursday charged seven individuals and two corporates with running an international organized criminal enterprise allegedly responsible for massive worldwide online piracy of numerous types of copyrighted works. The conspirators allegedly earned more than $175 million in illegal profits through advertising revenue and selling premium memberships, the Justice Department said. On Wednesday, several Web sites voluntarily shut down to protest anti-piracy legislation making its way through Congress.
look at this
The site is one of the world's most popular file-sharing services, but has now been closed following allegations that its founder and several other executives were charged with violating a number of piracy laws.
The allegations state that Megaupload has cost copyright holders a loss of over $500 million (£320m) in revenue from pirated films and other media.
It appears that its spinoff sites including Megavideo and Megapix have also been shut down for the time being.
A statement posted on the FBI's website read: "This action is among the largest criminal copyright cases ever brought by the United States and directly targets the misuse of a public content storage and distribution site to commit and facilitate intellectual property crime."
The Justice Department explained that Kim Dotcom (formerly Kim Schmitz) and three others were arrested in New Zealand.
Megaupload had released a statement shortly before the shutdown, stating that the allegations were "grotesquely overblown".
The statement read: "The fact is that the vast majority of Mega's internet traffic is legitimate, and we are here to stay. If the content industry would like to take advantage of our popularity, we are happy to enter into a dialogue. We have some good ideas. Please get in touch."
The website allows users to upload and transfer files that are too large for email, and is similar to several other sites including Rapidshare and FileServe.
The Motion Picture Association of America recently alleged that the vast majority of files used on Megaupload are in violation of copyright laws.
The move comes one day after many websites including Wikipedia and Craigslist shut down in protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA).
Source : Yahoo
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The FBI? Apparently it shutted down itself because they started getting sued or something.
Now how I'll download stuff people inconviently uploaded there? But I kinda hated those services though. Hope people will upload stuff to better places. *mumbles about being lazy to upload stuff to places you have to wait 45 seconds to download*
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Ninja'd :P (Although you had more info)
This sucks since people often used it to share files on forums :/
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So all files there are gone? O_O
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Well, they shutted down the servers, they might bring them back up after the whole suing thing. Or not.
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mumbles about being lazy to upload stuff to places you have to wait 45 seconds to download*
Megaupload > No captcha for free users
if we use megaupload+jdownloader = perfect, more fast than torrents
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Actually it has CAPTCHAS where I live. Just 3 letters, though. It also had the annoying 45 seconds wait, but most other sites didn't work properly. Mediafire is better I think IMHO, though.
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I have to agree with dJ I like mediafire more though if i remember correctly megaupload lets you upload larger files so thats useful
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It's back! But it's .bz now.
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Numbers: http://sopastrike.com/numbers/
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(Above post is obv. spam.)
So all you care about is how changing avatars on calculator forums will change a thing?
Also stopping SOPA won't help. It's a bit more than blacking out one single day and you are not cool, because you are "against" it. Do you really care? Or did you just jump on the bandwagon for fun? See what you can rwally do to stop SOPA: http://goo.gl/ZErh8
Opinion grabbed from here: http://maddox.xmission.com/
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Just FYI there was a spambot in the post above Nanowar's, but I banned him and deleted the post.
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(Above post is obv. spam.)
So all you care about is how changing avatars on calculator forums will change a thing?
Also stopping SOPA won't help. It's a bit more than blacking out one single day and you are not cool, because you are "against" it. Do you really care? Or did you just jump on the bandwagon for fun? See what you can rwally do to stop SOPA: http://goo.gl/ZErh8
Opinion grabbed from here: http://maddox.xmission.com/
That is how we are showing our (anti)support here. I for one have signed the whitehouse poll and sent messages to my congressman to block it also. We are against it truly
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(Above post is obv. spam.)
So all you care about is how changing avatars on calculator forums will change a thing?
Also stopping SOPA won't help. It's a bit more than blacking out one single day and you are not cool, because you are "against" it. Do you really care? Or did you just jump on the bandwagon for fun? See what you can rwally do to stop SOPA: http://goo.gl/ZErh8
Opinion grabbed from here: http://maddox.xmission.com/
That is how we are showing our (anti)support here. I for one have signed the whitehouse poll and sent messages to my congressman to block it also. We are against it truly
I also contacted my senator.
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(Above post is obv. spam.)
So all you care about is how changing avatars on calculator forums will change a thing?
Also stopping SOPA won't help. It's a bit more than blacking out one single day and you are not cool, because you are "against" it. Do you really care? Or did you just jump on the bandwagon for fun? See what you can rwally do to stop SOPA: http://goo.gl/ZErh8
Opinion grabbed from here: http://maddox.xmission.com/
I've done everything short of contacting my Senator (though that's because I'm too nervous to). I don't think there are very many people who are against it, "just to be cool".
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Same for a bunch of people. Also I don't think it's right to just plain jump in the discussion and accuse people of joining the bandwaggon just for fun.
(Btw had I lived in USA I would certainly not vote for whoever tried to pass this bill and the other related ones)
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Looking around it appears to me that SOPA/PIPA are dead(or as wikipedia says: hiding). the blackouts appear to have worked :D there is now OPEN which i havent looked much into so I cant say anything about it. Anyone know if this new one is as bad as SOPA/PIPA?
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Looking around it appears to me that SOPA/PIPA are dead(or as wikipedia says: hiding). the blackouts appear to have worked :D there is now OPEN which i havent looked much into so I cant say anything about it. Anyone know if this new one is as bad as SOPA/PIPA?
IDK much about OPEN, but if its like SOPA/PIPA in any way, we should be wary. ;)
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Looking around it appears to me that SOPA/PIPA are dead(or as wikipedia says: hiding). the blackouts appear to have worked :D there is now OPEN which i havent looked much into so I cant say anything about it. Anyone know if this new one is as bad as SOPA/PIPA?
IDK much about OPEN, but if its like SOPA/PIPA in any way, we should be wary. ;)
From what I've seen so far it is like SOPA/PIPA but with a little more beuracracy I'm sorry if I'm wrong but thats what I get from quickly reading over a descripition
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Looking around it appears to me that SOPA/PIPA are dead(or as wikipedia says: hiding). the blackouts appear to have worked :D there is now OPEN which i havent looked much into so I cant say anything about it. Anyone know if this new one is as bad as SOPA/PIPA?
IDK much about OPEN, but if its like SOPA/PIPA in any way, we should be wary. ;)
From what I've seen so far it is like SOPA/PIPA but with a little more beuracracy I'm sorry if I'm wrong but thats what I get from quickly reading over a descripition
i think you're right, was just doing some research myself. I take reddit's stance: "Its a good start."
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I still wont approve any DNS/IP filtering for searching. I'd also really like for them not to censor search engines either. I'd say making sites that break US Federal laws not be allowed to use paypal and like services that are under US jurisdiction.
EDIT: I've been reading about it and I'm happy to say that PIPA and SOPA have been pulled and that OPEN only makes payment companies and advertising companies stop working with sites with limited function outside of piracy includes takedown notices and all around is much better
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Well if both SOPA and PIPA are dead, then that's good. Now to see if they're gonna sneak in another bill in response to that...
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Just wondering, when is the bar over Omnimaga gonna be taken down?
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Pretty soon I guess. There's still this Megaupload thing floating around, plus I think SOPA and PIPA aren't definitively dead yet...
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Pretty soon I guess. There's still this Megaupload thing floating around, plus I think SOPA and PIPA aren't definitively dead yet...
SOPA has been pulled from the house and PIPA's vote was canceled. SOPA is dead PIPA not quite but pretty close. I hope Megaupload gets out of the lawsuit. I think the DMCA should have helped protect them from this. The justice department is being way too hard on them.
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That said, I think the SOPA/PIPA stuff were running for like 4 years, right? 4 years ago, I remember forum topics and Youtube videos about potential Internet censorship attempt by US government. I forgot what was the exact name of it, though, but this has been a threat for over 4 years now.
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The SOPA and PIPA are pretty recent, but I guess the fears of censorship were there since a while, since the US have all the powers over the Internet andd they can do whatever they want and also what happened in other countries such as China and Egypt.
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Oh right there was that too: http://www.cemetech.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4349 (ACTA)
But I'm sure I remember something else in 2008 too where they wanted to throttle the speed of sites like Omni or download sites and make company sites like Youtube or Microsoft and governmental ones faster.
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That said, I think the SOPA/PIPA stuff were running for like 4 years, right? 4 years ago, I remember forum topics and Youtube videos about potential Internet censorship attempt by US government. I forgot what was the exact name of it, though, but this has been a threat for over 4 years now.
Most of the older censorship concerns were over tiered internet which is different. It is giving sites the opportunity to pay to be at full speed or stay at a lower speed
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Oh right, that's it I think. It was basically something that favored big companies at the expense of sharing sites or sites like Omni.
Heck I already have an hard time getting traffic for my music album. I think my Bandcamp site gets around 5-25 unique visits per day max, so imagine if it was incredibly slow to load.
Also I saw this on Facebook:
(http://i.imgur.com/mrCol.jpg)
Too short, IMHO, though. The best way would be to stop buying anything like that during an entire financial quarter.
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^I'm down with that statement :D
Let's do it!
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I saw this when starting minecraft. Look at the yellow text. I checked it with google translate, but unfortunately it isn't true.
(http://img.removedfromgame.com/imgs/7-Untitled.png)
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Apparently, it does
http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/oicvt/sopa_means_loser_in_swedish/ (http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/oicvt/sopa_means_loser_in_swedish/)
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Well, Google Translate isn't reliable. And Notch is Swedish, so I guess he knows what he's saying.
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Yeah, or maybe he's doing some sort of joke since many people know he's swedish.
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The Swedish word sopa is either a verb that means "to sweep" or a noun that means "garbage". Sopa as a noun can also mean a person who is useless, which is probably what Notch translated into "loser". The most common translation I see on the internet is garbage/trash, but the others are also correct.
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Garbage actually defines the SOPA bill pretty well ;)
I wonder if PIPA exists in a language. It's good that it's not called PIPE, though, because in French-speaking areas I can't imagine the lulz... O.O
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I wonder if PIPA exists in a language. It's good that it's not called PIPE, though, because in French-speaking areas I can't imagine the lulz... O.O
Yeah, that name would suck for real :P
Either way, PIPA sucks, whatever its name is.
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Yeah, much like Microsoft Zune and that Vocaloid3 called CUL. Hours of lulz with those ones.
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I wonder if PIPA exists in a language.
P.I.P.A.
P.I.T.A.
Close enough ;D
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More hosting sites closed today
Filesonic and Fileserve is closed, ... the files is only avaliable for upload owners
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(http://www.traemcneely.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/wpid-1934969_460s-1.jpg) (http://www.traemcneely.com/2012/01/20/what-if-sopa-is-actually-what-the-mayans-were-talking-about/)
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I don't want to think about that......but one thing is for sure: the world would have no internet.
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RIAA CEO Hopes SOPA Protests Were a 'One-Time Thing' (http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section_id=466&doc_id=239958&)
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^Two things to say to him
1. We don't care
2. That information and belief came from people who actually read and interpreted the bill themselves. I myself read the bill and found the controversial content on my own.