[Ulic Qel-Droma]

Stop Online Piracy Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act)

The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), also known as H.R. 3261, is a bill that was introduced in the United States House of Representatives on October 26, 2011

what do u guys think about this?

why isnt it covered on the news?

i JUST heard about it... wtf?!

anyways, my thoughts are... its just something the imperialists down south would do. but like the war on drugs, this is gonna be another huge failure. i think it will fail harder than the war on drugs. they cant control it. they're totally retarded.

anyways, fuck them.


edit: any mod can u edit the title to "The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)" thanks...

[Excelsis]

:fuckthatshit:

[SFUguy]

long live thepiratebay

[StylinRed]

its simply so the usa can censor the internet piracy prevention is just a guise

[Spartacus]

Stop Online Piracy Act (Scary Facts) - YouTube

[gars]

If you guys read up on it - there are many companies in the states that publicly supported the bill, including Go-Daddy (which pulled their support later on).

Go Daddy pulls support for SOPA amidst backlash, too late to satisfy Wikipedia -- Engadget (http://www.engadget.com/2011/12/23/godaddy-pulls-support-for-sopa-amidst-backlash-too-late-to-sati/)

[StylinRed]

many against it too

but this has nothing to do with piracy imo

the usa is just gearing up for what may come and they want a legal pass to censor the net

[urrh]

lol there's already a work around by way of a firefox addon before the legislation passes.
How to Sidestep this SOPA Nonsense Entirely (http://gizmodo.com/5870121/how-to-sidestep-this-sopa-nonsense-entirely?tag=sopa)
SOPA's not going to fly

[skyxx]

many against it too

but this has nothing to do with piracy imo

the usa is just gearing up for what may come and they want a legal pass to censor the net

Pretty much. It was covered on the news but it was a really small bit. The major corporations behind all the news outlets control what comes out hence the hush hush situation we're seeing. The USA will try and institute a "China-like" censorship of the internet by using a "dummy" bill to initiate what they want to accomplish. It's nothing new in terms of what the government does. It's only a matter of time when full censorship takes full effect. 2012 and onwards will be huge. Just wait and watch.
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[murd0c]

Our freedoms are being pulled one by one and the sad thing is nothing can be done about it because they will claim its for our safety and it's for the good.

[skyxx]

There was never freedom in the first place.
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[FiveDime]

PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet on Vimeo

[Excelsis]

oh in that case

fuck the government :fuckthatshit:

[dee242]

anonymous where are u

[woob]

If you guys read up on it - there are many companies in the states that publicly supported the bill, including Go-Daddy (which pulled their support later on).

Go Daddy pulls support for SOPA amidst backlash, too late to satisfy Wikipedia -- Engadget (http://www.engadget.com/2011/12/23/godaddy-pulls-support-for-sopa-amidst-backlash-too-late-to-sati/)

FYI GoDaddy was part of writing the SOPA drafts. Even though they've supposedly pulled support, I think this is nothing but a PR move and behind the scenes they still want it passed.

"Fighting online piracy is of the utmost importance, which is why Go Daddy has been working to help craft revisions to this legislation - but we can clearly do better," Warren Adelman, Go Daddy's newly appointed CEO, said."

imgur.com has moved its domains from GoDaddy and Wikipedia is in the process of moving theirs as well: https://twitter.com/#!/jimmy_wales/status/150287579642740736

[gars]

btw, Wikipedia only has GoDaddy as their DNS, I think they still have their own servers.

Either way, it's such a sleezeball move on Go Daddy's part. I'm glad people are boycotting it.

I'm not surprised if they start filtering search results through Google - just the same way that China did before Google pulled out.

[fsy82]

private ftp servers ftw!

[SkinnyPupp]

I have about 20 or 30 domains with GoDaddy... I want to boycott but it's a lot of work transferring domains :\

[underscore]

^ in the long run, probably worth the effort!

[Mananetwork]

I tweeted a lot about the cause and effect of this bill today. Everyone should spread the word as well!

[vl_86]

I have about 20 or 30 domains with GoDaddy... I want to boycott but it's a lot of work transferring domains :\

Hey Skinny,

If your interested in switching over, I'd check out this reddit page to make your life a bit easier for alternatives

Reddit, if one wants to switch domains from GoDaddy, what are the best alternative domain hosting sites? : AskReddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/no1ux/reddit_if_one_wants_to_switch_domains_from/)

For good domain hostings

[Hehe]

I have 12 domains with Godaddy... I'm switching to namecheap on 29th. Just a little effort to support the cause.

[Soundy]

lol there's already a work around by way of a firefox addon before the legislation passes.
How to Sidestep this SOPA Nonsense Entirely (http://gizmodo.com/5870121/how-to-sidestep-this-sopa-nonsense-entirely?tag=sopa)
SOPA's not going to fly

Don't even need a plug-in... just override your computer/router's automatically-acquired DNS servers and point those to some offshore DNS servers (actually, Canadian DNSes should still be fine...)

[Manic!]

People If you want to stop SOPA you have to do things IRL. Complaining on RS will not work.

[Graeme S]

People If you want to stop SOPA you have to be an American. Complaining on RS will not work.

Fixt.

[LiquidTurbo]

I have about 20 or 30 domains with GoDaddy... I want to boycott but it's a lot of work transferring domains :\

Do it. I'll donate.

[vl_86]

Fixt.

That's not true, even if your not American, you can still take a stand by having a collective voice and not supporting companies that are publicly supporting SOPA

Look at GoDaddy, they were the one of the companies that were helping put the legislation together for SOPA, now their scrambling saying their maintaining a neutral stance after everyone started collectively changing domains

[LiquidTurbo]

Scumbag USA.


http://i.qkme.me/35ay0z.jpg

[LiquidTurbo]

Just donated $20 to wikipedia.

https://twitter.com/#!/jimmy_wales/status/150287579642740736/?reddit


Wikipedia got me through a lot of schooling. Figured it was the least I could do.

[$_$]

Sign petition here


Stop American Censorship (http://americancensorship.org/)

[MindBomber]

I showed my support by donating twenty dollars to wikipedia, signing the petition, and reposting the information to the one other forum I'm active on. I encourage everyone to do at least the later two things I've done, themselves.

[iEatClams]

SOPA: Google, Facebook Speak Out Against Internet Censorship in Letter to Congress (http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/251632/20111117/sopa-internet-censorship-google-facebook-twitter-yahoo.htm)

Google, Twitter, Facebook and many of the worlds largest internet are against it.

[woob]

^ sadly, many big corps are for it. The Apple, Dell, and even the NHL support it.

Full list of companies supporting SOPA: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xjisu18X6s7lPtAsIQg5Ol3KJjymPT2az1kasQVwGiw/preview?pli=1&sle=true

[Mananetwork]

Here's my tweet about woob's post on who's supporting sopa. RT if you can!

https://twitter.com/#!/mananetwork/status/150691918672695297

[Manic!]

We have a US embassy and a NHL team in Vancouver.

[bloodmack]

America is censoring the internet for american citizens.. Why are we worried? yes i realize it could spike a chain reaction for canada to do something but I really doubt it..

[$_$]

America is censoring the internet for american citizens.. Why are we worried? yes i realize it could spike a chain reaction for canada to do something but I really doubt it..

The fact of the matter is most of the websites we visit are american, not to mention the domain may be American based. They have a lot of jurisdiction

[MindBomber]

America is censoring the internet for american citizens.. Why are we worried? yes i realize it could spike a chain reaction for canada to do something but I really doubt it..

Do you use any American based websites?

If the answers yes, then you could quite possibly feel some effect.

Aside from that, if the legislation passes, it's not a huge stretch of the imagination to think Harper would import the idea to Canada. Monkey see, monkey do.

[Lomac]

America is censoring the internet for american citizens.. Why are we worried? yes i realize it could spike a chain reaction for canada to do something but I really doubt it..

The RS servers are based in America. Think about that one for a second...

:concentrate:

[european]

I remember reading about this last month and some how I stumbled on a video about it on youtube.
It's getting pretty crazy out there.

[sunny_j]

another good watch on this topic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJIuYgIvKsc&feature=colike

[325isMSPORT]

NOOOOO FREE STUFF!

[Mananetwork]

#GoDaddy loses over 37,000 domains due to SOPA stance Go Daddy loses over 37,000 domains due to SOPA stance | VentureBeat (http://t.co/RSXXFysq)
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[Excelsis]

http://gifsforum.com/images/image/sht%20just%20got%20real/preview/sht%20just%20got%20real.jpg

[iEatClams]

Really good article recently on this topic

SOPA's most frightening flaw is the future it predicts - The Globe and Mail (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/tech-news/sopas-most-frightening-flaw-is-the-future-it-predicts/article2285015/singlepage/#articlecontent)



Bob Parsons likes to go to Zimbabwe and shoot elephants.

The CEO of GoDaddy, a company that lets customers register Web site domain names, is apparently deeply concerned with the plight of Zimbabwean subsistence farmers, who he says are plagued by marauding elephant gangs that destroy crops and trample fields.

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To ease the farmers’ burden, Mr. Parsons takes a rifle, lies in wait for the elephants to arrive in the dead of night, and then opens fire. The world first learned of his philanthropic pachydermicide early this year, when Mr. Parsons uploaded a somewhat bizarre video detailing his exploits, and featuring a chaotic scene of what he termed “hungry villagers” – many of them wearing bright orange GoDaddy caps – tearing an elephant carcass apart for the meat.

The video caused many critics to complain that Mr. Parsons appeared more interested in unleashing his inner Hemingway with some bang-bang tourism than helping Zimbabwean farmers. Several groups, including PETA, urged a boycott of GoDaddy.

In fact, GoDaddy is frequently the subject of controversy. Most of the time, that controversy centres on the company’s TV ads, which tend to follow a pretty standard script: Somebody talks about registering a Web site with GoDaddy, at which point one or more women, who are largely incidental to the situation, begin to undress. It’s like a beer commercial, only less subtle.

Yet despite these various controversies, GoDaddy has hummed along profitably, largely unscathed by its reputation for crass commercials and elephant-ambushing executives. Until this month, none of the fledgling GoDaddy-boycott campaigns really gained much traction.

Then the company went ahead and announced its support for something called the Stop Online Piracy Act. In less than a week, they lost some 72,000 domain names, as customers switched to competitors’ services in protest. In fact, the onslaught of bad publicity and general outcry was so deafening, the company reversed its position in less than a day, saying maybe it didn’t support SOPA after all.

This, it appears, is the kind of backlash an Internet-based company can expect when it throws its support behind one of the worst Internet laws ever proposed.

In late October of this year, Republican Senator Lamar Smith entered a bill called the Stop Online Piracy Act into the U.S. House of Representatives. The bill, which is still at the committee stage but may pass as early as next year, is the latest attempt to tackle the issue of copyright infringement in the digital age, and has the blessing of many of the major American content producers and industry associations, such as the Motion Picture Association of America.

SOPA also has opposition – massive, unprecedented opposition. The reasons for this opposition are varied, but basically boil down to this: within the bill’s 78 pages is a blueprint for ruining the Internet. In that sense, SOPA is a remarkable achievement. Rarely does a proposed law manage to be so bad in so many different ways.

Like the Clear Skies Act or the Ministry of Love, the Stop Online Piracy Act is somewhat confusingly named. Even though it is primarily a piece of anti-piracy legislation, SOPA is broad. The proposed bill gives the U.S. government, through the office of the Attorney General, the power to pursue court orders against any site believed to be engaging in copyright infringement. (There’s nothing adversarial about the court proceedings that lead to those orders: the defendant doesn’t even have to be present).

Armed with that power, the Attorney General can then order search engines to remove the site from their listings. The AG can likewise order Internet Service Providers to block users from accessing the site. The AG can also order advertising networks and payment providers to stop doing business with the site. And all those entities are compelled to comply. Indeed, the bill imposes stiff penalties on anyone who doesn’t, and offers immunity to ad networks and payment processors that follow orders. As such, SOPA is chock-full of incentives for ISPs, content-hosting sites and other such entities to go along with the government’s demands.

The bill also gives individual intellectual property holders such as record labels and cable companies the ability to issue similar notices to ad networks and payment processors, demanding the same kinds of remedies. Under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, copyright-holders can issue takedown notices for individual bits of content, such as infringing Youtube videos. SOPA extends a variation of that power to cover entire Web sites. The onus is then on the blacklisted sites to prove the absence of infringing content.

SOPA combines these iron-fist powers with a series of broad definitions. Whereas some previous incarnations of anti-piracy bills in the U.S. at least focused on sites that were primarily dedicated to copyright infringement – those virtual hangouts where nobody does anything but trade bootleg copies of the new Transformers movie – SOPA sets its sights on any infringement, no matter how small. That means the Attorney General can pursue court orders against and demand the blocking of any Web site with a tiny amount of infringing content. Somebody used an unauthorized Maroon 5 song in that summer vacation video they posted on your social network? The entire site now falls under SOPA’s penalty clauses.

The bill also covers more than just infringement (the act of streaming copyrighted content, a felony under SOPA, carries a five-year prison sentence). It also covers “facilitating” such content. That term is so poorly defined, however, it could well apply to a hyperlink on an entirely unrelated Web site, or a single Tweet. The potential for self-censorship is glaring, as is the potential for false positives – how many sites will nuke non-infringing content, or links to such content, just to be safe?

And because SOPA also prohibits tools that could be used to get around the Attorney General’s blockade, it may also mean that the same anonymity and address-spoofing software used by activists and protesters will become illegal to U.S. Internet users (many of these tools, incidentally, are funded by the U.S. government, which has no problem with protesters in Iran or China using them). That’s in part why a number of human rights organizations have come out against the bill.

(The list of big-name SOPA opponents is long and varied, including most of Silicon Valley’s biggest anchors, several Internet Service Providers and domain-name hosts, legal scholars and civil liberties organizations).

There are plenty of other SOPA spillover effects. Because the proposed law would give the U.S. government the ability to demand that American domain-name registrars block certain sites, many of those registrars will have to implement complex new technical measures. Indeed, the process of blocking those sites will go a long way toward screwing up the technical fabric of the Internet by throwing a U.S. government blacklist onto the global domain-name system.

SOPA’s most ironic flaw, however, is that it is a miserably ineffectual way to fight piracy. Even if a Web site that legitimately, willfully and exclusively pirates content is shut down in the U.S. by government order, the site’s owners can quickly and easily set up shop under a different name, or a multitude of names. Additionally, anyone with a fairly basic set of technical skills can find another way to access banned sites. And if SOPA passes, it’s a pretty safe bet that such skills will quickly become common knowledge. The most immediate impact of SOPA, it seems, will be to force American users to learn the same tricks their counterparts in Iran, Saudi Arabia and China already know.

If it is designed to do anything other than placate the largest U.S. copyright-holders, then SOPA is a failure. But the most frightening aspect of the bill isn’t its contents, it’s the future it predicts.

For years, opposition to heavy-handed anti-online-piracy bills has been somewhat subdued, at least in part because there’s a perception in some corners that the only people who really have anything to fear under such laws are the digital thieves who would rather download music and movies illegally than pay for them – the punks keeping food off Vin Diesel’s table. Whether there’s any merit to that perception is, at best, debatable. But SOPA makes no distinction. A person who hasn’t so much as heard of BitTorrent can wake up one day to find their entire account on a video-hosting site inaccessible, all because somebody else used the same service to upload a copy of the Fast and the Furious.

And because the U.S. is still where much of the Internet’s infrastructure lives, SOPA isn’t just going to effect Americans. As Michael Geist points out, virtually every dot-com Web address is managed by a domain-name registry in the U.S., and American lobbying is believed to have played a pretty central role in getting tougher anti-piracy legislation on the table in a number of countries, including Canada.

There’s a reason millions of people around the world have mobilized against this bill. The Internet works best when every node is on equal footing. Every time policymakers try to clean up one of the Web’s ugly back alleys – be it child pornography, terrorist propaganda or financial fraud – they have to weigh the seriousness of the crime and the effectiveness of the remedy against the constraints that remedy places on a free and open Web. That requires a scale, not a sledgehammer.

With SOPA, the country in which the Internet’s nervous system resides now stands on the verge of telling the rest of the world that a regionally firewalled, censored Internet is a perfectly acceptable outcome – in the name of protecting copyright holders. That’s an unreasonable tradeoff.

[LiquidTurbo]

WTF is SOPA ? aka The American Government trying to ruin the internet - YouTube

[4doorVIP]

Boycott "GoDaddy" for Supporting SOPA: Internet Activist Frederick Reports 1/2 - YouTube

[melloman]

Would never think that so many companies would back this garbage.


:Popcorn Waiting for US computer nerds to unite and protest.

[FiveDime]

Reddit Goes Full Blackout in SOPA Protest (http://blog.reddit.com/2012/01/stopped-they-must-be-on-this-all.html)

[strykn]

the NDAA that obama secretly signed is a lot worse than this

[Limitless]

I don't know much about website hosting, but if the bill goes through does that mean any website as long as it's being hosted by a company based in the US can be shut down? For example REVscene even though it's not from the US could be shut down because it's being hosted by Go-Daddy?

This act pretty much kills all forums and anything that anyone can comment on then...
Obviously companies such as Google, Facebook and Yahoo would be against it because they're the ones that get shut down lol.

'SOPA' is bs, the people supporting the bill probably either are going to be put in control if it's passed, or don't get affected by it/don't use the internet much

[davidw1234]

^The definition of a "domestic website" in the bill is too broad. It basically states that any domain name with a USA based registrar can be taken down (not solely based on hosting location)

There's a detailed technical analysis on Reddit's blog site written by one of their sysadmins

blog.reddit -- what's new on reddit: A technical examination of SOPA and PROTECT IP (http://blog.reddit.com/2012/01/technical-examination-of-sopa-and.html)

Edit: Under the broad definition, basically any .com/.org/.net etc. domain names can be shut down because they all go through a US-based registrar (Verisign, Registry Pro, Internet Society)

[silva95teg]

From the sounds of it they would be removing the website from the DNS, so unless you knew the ip of the site you would not be able to get to it right ? If someone just pointed to private DNS servers how would they stop that ?

[davidw1234]

Pretty much yes. If it was pointed to a private or foreign DNS server then they basically can't do anything.

IMO though the reason why SOPA is so controversial is because of censorship. It's not really intended to stop piracy cause it's so badly written.

Just a side note, Lamar Smith (creator of SOPA) is a copyright violator himself. If this act did pass, he just got a taste of his own medicine.

[Mananetwork]

Just installed the SOPA Strike wordpress plugin. I'm all ready for tomorrow

[shawn79]

wtf hulkshare cant search!

[LiquidTurbo]

wikipedia on strike. wow. shit's getting real.

[BaoTurbo]

They purposely made it broad so they'll have jurisdiction over manipulating or bending the bill to their authoritative asses

[Razor Ramon HG]

To bypass the block, simply stop the page from fully loading :fuckthatshit:

[Redlines_Daily]

small list of supporters that I found interesting:

L’Oreal
MasterCard Worldwide
Visa
Revlon
Tiffany & Co
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC)
Estée Lauder Companies
Scholastic, Inc

Official list of SOPA supporters includes the X-Men, bible publishers & country music | VentureBeat (http://venturebeat.com/2011/12/22/list-of-sopa-supporters/)

[Matsuda]

we're blacking out our site tomorrow in support of the SOPA protest too

[Limitless]

SOPA's Architect Is Finally Starting to Back Down - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/sopas-architect-finally-starting-back-down-225722143.html)

Less than 24-hours after promising not to yield, the Texas congressman and author of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) Lamar Smith is yielding on the bill's controversial language that would allow the government to censor the Internet -- for now. "After consultation with industry groups across the country, I feel we should remove Domain Name System blocking from the Stop Online Piracy Act so that the [Judiciary] Committee can further examine the issues surrounding this provision," Smith said in a Friday afternoon press release. "We will continue to look for ways to ensure that foreign websites cannot sell and distribute illegal content to U.S. consumers."

[Spartacus]

List of site that will be closed tomorrow in protest of sopa.

http://nlb-creations.com/2012/01/13/websites-confirmed-for-the-jan-18-blackout-protesting-sopa/

Major update: Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales just confirmed that Wikipedia is joining in on Blackout Day!

Update #2: Google, while not planning to go dark, will still be participating in the Blackout Day protest.

Reddit.com
Tucows.com
The entire Cheezburger Network
Destructoid.com
Hacktivist group, Anonymous
Red 5 Studios, developer of the Firefall MMO
Mojang.com and Popular MMO, Minecraft
NLB Creations – my own site
Webmaster community Admin Forums
Web design company, Skytemple.com
Gaming site Video Game Generation
Right Angle Recording
All sites in Major League Gaming’s network
GamingBus.com
Errata Security
XDA Developers
Gaming site, GOG.com
Hey It’s Free! – confirmed via email
Harder Blogger Faster
Colossal Mind
Sonic Retro
BrentAnderson.info
Working It Out
e-cloudy.com – confirmed via comments
Seibertron.com
NewGrounds
Through the Eyes of a Pirate – confirmed via Pirate Party
Cynical Brit
Platform Nation
Digital Suicide – confirmed via comments
Kahn Labs
Jamacast
CryptoCat
Joyblind – confirmed via email
A Much Better Way – confirmed via comments
[H]ard OCP Gaming Community – confirmed via comments
GamersTube.com
Boing Boing
Inkerro – confirmed via comments
The Weekly Gripe – confirmed via comments
Leslie Networks – “We will not be preforming a full black out but will be displaying a SOPA message on our site and possibly more.” – via comments and Twitter
WordPress for Business Websites – confirmed via comments
Simply Fixed – confirmed via comments
FriendStream – confirmed via comments
TacticalCraft – confirmed via comments
RedStoneHost.com – confirmed via comments
EcchiDreams (link NSFW) – confirmed via comments
RaGEZONE – confirmed via comments
Raspberry Pi – confirmed via comments and site
LazySlob1
GeNyaa – confirmed via comments
Rational Responders – confirmed via comments
Brian Sapient – confirmed via comments
Celebrity Atheists – confirmed via comments
Purpose of Christmas – confirmed via comments
Atheism United – confirmed via comments
Emerald Angel Comics – confirmed via comments
Fairy Tail Episode – confirmed via comments
Vanilla Forums – confirmed via comments
Icrontic – confirmed via comments
New Buddhist – confirmed via comments
This is Xbox
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Castle-G.com – confirmed via comments
Faio.org – confirmed via comments
egoArchive – confirmed via comments
Olivero Broadcasting Group – confirmed via comments
BHR Hosting – confirmed via comments
Red Dawn Movie News
Splitkick – via Twitter
Kona’s Korner
Radioactive Nerd – via Twitter
Talking About Games
Avast!
Cheapitarianism – confirmed via comments
Shaking the Tree – confirmed via comments
Hypocrites In Politics – confirmed via comments
Queeffr.com – confirmed via comments
Farttr.com – confirmed via comments
Quandu – confirmed via comments
PieceOfTheWorld.org – confirmed via comments
The Damned – confirmed via comments
Ian’s Brain – confirmed via comments
BitBid – confirmed via comments
Open Of Course – confirmed via comments
Tech Humanity – confirmed via comments
The Freelancer Today
Nerd Reactor
Stumble Down Under
Sfera Hosting – confirmed via comments
Tekeremata – confirmed via comments
Secta Hentai (link NSFW) – confirmed via comments
Partido Pirata – confirmed via comments
Jovenes Piratas – confirmed via comments
Pirata Salocin – confirmed via comments
Amanecer Sombrio – confirmed via comments
Kobra Photography – confirmed via comments
Wikipedia – confirmed via Twitter
Super Seed Box – confirmed via comments
YourDegree.com – confirmed via comments
RootzWiki – confirmed via comments
Regretsy - confirmed via Facebook
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What Time In – confirmed via comments
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RivitCity.com – confirmed via comments
Eclipse Guild – confirmed via comments
Mobile Express DJs – confirmed via comments
RyanWhitman.tk – confirmed via comments
GirlGamer.com – confirmed via comments
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JoHarrington.co.uk (and also her Wizzley and Suite 101 profiles) – confirmed via comments
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Jo’s Library – confirmed via comments
Merch Gwyar’s Blog – confirmed via comments
Council of Elrond – confirmed via comments
3World
MemeStreams
DoodleKit
Political Buddies
John Shaw Computers – confirmed via comments
John Show for Florida State Senate – confirmed via comments
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Bollywood Chat – confirmed via comments
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Sanguinus.org – confirmed via email
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Tech Direct Services – confirmed via comments
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Din Studio – confirmed via comments
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SuMob – confirmed via comments
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Fellowship of Minds – confirmed via comments
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Razer – confirmed via comments and Reddit
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Arabist Blog
CUNY Academic Commons
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North Decoder – confirmed via comments
Omnimaga – confirmed via comments
KimHunter.ca – confirmed via comments
Rangerboard – confirmed via comments
TotallyDreamer.com – confirmed via comments
Poeta Portis – confirmed via comments
Klockenstein.se – confirmed via comments
Klock-N-Craft – confirmed via comments
Bustoidejos.lt – confirmed via comments
Penguin George – confirmed via comments
Dan’s Computer Service – confirmed via comments
DanielWilson.me – confirmed via comments
Beyond Online – confirmed via comments
Political Idiots – confirmed via comments
Calamities of Nature – confirmed via comments
Looking for Detachment – confirmed via comments
Left Hemispheres – confirmed via comments
Shakespeare Monologues – confirmed via comments
SandSite.org – confirmed via comments
SandSecurity.org/ – confirmed via comments
XBMC – confirmed via comments
The Internet Archive – confirmed via comments
Rock Paper Shotgun – confirmed via comments
SocialMeds.com – confirmed via comments
Colorado Pols – confirmed via comments
MailExpire.com – confirmed via comments
Treeskunk Productions – confirmed via comments
InfoTurtle.ie – confirmed via comments
Crit Craft, along with user’s YouTube and twitch.tv accounts – confirmed via comments
MapleTimes.tk – confirmed via comments
Freebie Professor – confirmed via comments
Bermudez Hosting – confirmed via comments
JBermudez.com – confirmed via comments
Reggaeton News – confirmed via comments
MAKE and all of O’Reilly Media – confirmed via comments and site
Victoria H.’s school website – confirmed via comments
First Network Group, Inc. – confirmed via email
Marxist Internet Archive – confirmed via comments
The_Doctor’s blog
Action Coders
Naoisgaming.com
Surviving the World
BeefJack
Metal Delirium – confirmed via comments
Alternet.org – confirmed via comments
Quiet Waters – confirmed via comments
Mind of Me – confirmed via comments
GigDig – confirmed via comments
Year of the Novel – confirmed via comments
MichaelMoore.com – confirmed via comments
Nightwyn.com – confirmed via comments
2600.com
Hope.net
NotiHack – confirmed via comments
Tecnomundo – confirmed via comments
ValleDeGuadalupe.info – confirmed via comments
Cuatromas1.info – confirmed via comments
Xora.org – confirmed via comments
Consolloadingcrew.com – confirmed via comments
Cronicas klaydark – confirmed via comments
abisora – confirmed via comments

Additional sites via Reddit (thanks Cori!):

GOOD Evening
Rage Maker
FreakOutNation
TheLeakyWiki
Doxie Lovers Club
Twitpic – They won’t be going completely black, but will be posting censored versions of their site.
Age of Coins – A Minecraft server and forum
A Softer World
This Is Why Im Broke
Cake Wrecks (via Twitter: Cake Wrecks will be joining @reddit in going dark on 1/18 to protest #SOPA. Have a blog? Then join us! blog.reddit -- what's new on reddit: Stopped they must be; on this all depends. (http://bit.ly/z2KkSx))
Dance Top 40
Code Labs
MediaMyriad.com
The Ikids Blog
MMO Melting Pot
Inficron Technologies
SeekMyBeat.com
Geek Culture and the Joy of Tech comic
Identi.ca
Quiet Speculation
Shdon.com
IHateVodafonEgypt.com
AnimeWallpapers.com
AnimeForum.com
AnimeLyrics.comAnimeGalleries.net
Trigger Pit
SmokeE
Random Software

[PiuYi]

9gag not participating in blackout?

[Matsuda]

"The growing anti-SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) support that has swept through the gaming and Internet community found a very big ally today. With websites like Reddit and Wikipedia and gaming organizations like Major League Gaming prepared for a blackout on January 18th – the same day that the House Judiciary Committee hearing on HR 3261was scheduled in Washington, DC – President Barack Obama has stepped in and said he would not support the bill. SOPA has been killed, for now."

Obama Says So Long SOPA, Killing Controversial Internet Piracy Legislation - Forbes (http://www.forbes.com/sites/johngaudiosi/2012/01/16/obama-says-so-long-sopa-killing-controversial-internet-piracy-legislation/)

[Lomac]

I find it kinda funny how the guy who introduced this Bill, Rep. Lamar Smith, has CC Media Holdings as his largest contributor. Surely they wouldn't be whispering certain things in his ear as that would be immoral if he based his decisions on what others are saying... lol.

[FOREVER]

Does anyone else notice the "CENSORED" on the top right hand corner..? Or is that just me..

edit: I found out LOL

[JSALES]

was on the niketalk forum and they're protesting too

[Matsuda]

TheOatmeal.com blacked out in protest of SOPA / PIPA - The Oatmeal (http://theoatmeal.com/sopa)

[pure.life]

TheOatmeal.com blacked out in protest of SOPA / PIPA - The Oatmeal (http://theoatmeal.com/sopa)

http://s3.amazonaws.com/theoatmeal-img/comics/sopa/sopa.gif

:fullofwin:

[rsx]

Wasn't there a bill that was recently passed by US Congress to be able to arrest and detain anyone without any real reason?

[jaguar604]

Facebook profile picture and banner

http://i.imgur.com/5qgSR.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/ty9rU.jpg

[dachinesedude]

The bill would make unauthorized streaming of copyrighted content a crime, with a maximum penalty of five years in prison for ten such infringements within six months

aw hell no!

but would this count if people are streaming from chinese based programs like PPS, Funshion, QVOD

[Mr.HappySilp]

aw hell no!

but would this count if people are streaming from chinese based programs like PPS, Funshion, QVOD

Couldn't really say.... but if I were to make a wild guess it would be no since most china domain and websites isn't register here @@ PPS I think stream using servers out in China and good luck getting the Chinese's gov to help lol.

EDIT. However I know a lot of these so call chinese steaming websites have block IP from here.........

[Nlkko]

Facebook is also anti SOPA.

[JSALES]

LOL

http://i44.tinypic.com/2ica6vr.jpg

[LiquidTurbo]

If you still don't understand SOPA: TED Talk

The video you NEED to watch about SOPA! - YouTube

[TheKingdom2000]

lol, so I was browsing SpankWire...
turns out they support SOPA too.. haha
There is a little banner at the top ahah

[shenmecar]

^

Perhaps its because their videos are made by amateurs.

[Drow]

I read a theory somewhere the whole sopa could be an inside job by the obama administration. Obama's approval rating isn't very high and probably would not get elected again. However, the obama administration stated that they do not support sopa and plan to overturn it. This way obama can gain more support for the upcoming election.

Before any critisms i must disclose that i know nothing about u.s. politics, just thought this theory does make sense
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[mikemhg]

I read a theory somewhere the whole sopa could be an inside job by the obama administration. Obama's approval rating isn't very high and probably would not get elected again. However, the obama administration stated that they do not support sopa and plan to overturn it. This way obama can gain more support for the upcoming election.

Before any critisms i must disclose that i know nothing about u.s. politics, just thought this theory does make sense
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Sounds like a theory you'd hear on Fox News. Considering this legislation was co-written by the Republicans, I would say this is not an inside job. There's too much cash being thrown around by lobbyists from the Film and Music Industry for this to be something orchestrated for Obama's re-election.

[Redlines_Daily]

LOL

http://i44.tinypic.com/2ica6vr.jpg

Amazing! I hope that goes viral.

http://www.vice.com/read/lamar-smith-sopa-copyright-whoops

[Redlines_Daily]

Obama Says So Long SOPA, Killing Controversial Internet Piracy Legislation - Forbes (http://www.forbes.com/sites/johngaudiosi/2012/01/16/obama-says-so-long-sopa-killing-controversial-internet-piracy-legislation/)

The growing anti-SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) support that has swept through the gaming and Internet community found a very big ally today. With websites like Reddit and Wikipedia and gaming organizations like Major League Gaming prepared for a blackout on January 18th – the same day that the House Judiciary Committee hearing on HR 3261was scheduled in Washington, DC – President Barack Obama has stepped in and said he would not support the bill.

SOPA has been delayed, for now. The House has agreed to revisit the issue next month, but they now know the White House will veto any bill that’s not more narrowly focused.

Much to the chagrin of Hollywood, the Entertainment Software Association (which has been a backer of the bill from early on), and Internet domain company GoDaddy.com (which lost many accounts as a result of its support for the bill); SOPA has been shelved. The Motion Picture Association of America, one of the bill’s largest sponsors, is expected to regroup.

California congressman Darrell Issa, who has been opposed to the bill from the beginning, praised the Internet action that has swept like a virus across the Web the past week.

“The voice of the Internet community has been heard,” said Issa. “Much more education for members of Congress about the workings of the Internet is essential if anti-piracy legislation is to be workable and achieve broad appeal.”

But there remains another similar bill, Protect IP (the Enforcing and Protecting American Rights Against Sites Intent on Theft and Exploitation Act), that poses a problem for gamers and Internet users. This legislation is scheduled to go before the Senate on January 24th.

Both SOPA and Protect IP attempt to combat online piracy by preventing American search engines like Google and Yahoo from directing users to sites distributing stolen content. Both bills also would enable people and companies to sue if their copyright was infringed. Obama has come out against both bills, which killed SOPA and puts pressure on senators come January 24th. The full White House response can be read here.

“Any provision covering Internet intermediaries such as online advertising networks, payment processors, or search engines must be transparent and designed to prevent overly broad private rights of action that could encourage unjustified litigation that could discourage startup businesses and innovative firms from growing,” said The White House. “We expect and encourage all private parties, including both content creators and Internet platform providers working together, to adopt voluntary measures and best practices to reduce online piracy.”

Just like piracy itself, this debate isn’t over. Expect more bills to move forward, although the wording in future legislation is expected to be more narrowly focused in an attempt to appease the current administration. But given the current economic climate and the upcoming Presidential election, there could be a different administration entering The White House soon, changing the landscape for these types of bills.

[Redlines_Daily]

Hollywood threatens Obama over SOPA — RT (http://rt.com/usa/news/hollywood-obama-sopa-support-229/)

If you see the White House invaded by aliens, blown up by laser beams or bombed by terrorists in any of the big summer blockbusters this year, consider it a subtle hint to the Oval Office by way of Hollywood.

After US President Barack Obama demanded revamped provisions in the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA, Los Angeles film executives are rescinding their support of the commander-in-chief.

While Hollywood hot-shots were in the past major contributors to the 2008 campaign for Barack Obama, movie execs are heated up over the presidents halting of SOPA. On the West Coast, filmmakers and affiliated are insisting that the move is a major blow to the movie industry and it will only further encourage an Internet already ripe with pirated motion pictures.

Under the proposed SOPA legislation, both websites and Web surfers involved in sharing copyrighted material would be imposed with hefty fines and imprisonment, imposing a government-sanctioned firewall of sorts to shut down a large chunk of the Web. Advocates for an open Internet have protested in droves against both SOPA and its sister legislation, the Protect IP Act, or PIPA, and a massive campaign against them both on Wednesday this week brought thousands of websites down to show the impact the laws could have. Search engine giant Google warned users of the acts’ implications on Wednesday, and both Wikipedia and Reddit turned their sites black for the day. On Twitter, users used the microblogging sight to tweet opposition to SOPA and for a while the term “Save Porn” became the top trending topic in America, as passed legislation would no-doubt cripple the online adult entertainment industry.

Although Obama has won the favor of much of Silicon Valley by striking down SOPA for now, downstate in the Hollywood Hills, executives are furious that the president has put his foot down on the legislation, potentially allowing for the sharing and pirating of films to continue endlessly.

In Los Angeles, execs are fearful of the consequences and are revoking their support. For Obama’s re-election campaign, that could be one big dent in his 2012 fundraising efforts out west.

President Obama has managed to garner substantial support from the Internet and computer tech industry, although the Democratic National Committee has, as of September 30, 2011, received around $1 million more from the Hollywood and entertainment industry than their Silicon Valley counterparts. Among those that are at the top of the donor list are DreamWorks CEO Jeffrey Katzenerg, who personally has raised more than $500,000 for Obama’s re-election so far and has contributed $2 million to a super PAC with similar viewpoints.

If the backlash already aimed at Barack is any indication, however, the amount in the money well might begin to dry up.

“We just feel very let down by the administration and Obama for not supporting us,” one anonymous movie exec tells the Hollywood-geared website Deadline.

Another executive, who is identified only as a well known movie mogul and a supporter of the administration until now adds, “At least let him remain neutral and not go against it until we can get the legislation right. But Obama went against it. I’m personally not going to support him anymore and not give a dime anymore.”

With Hollywood funding not just Obama but the Democrats as a whole, a rift is dividing the president’s own party as lawmakers are forced to take sides with anti-SOPA supporters and the entertainment industry.

Former Democratic Senator Chris Dodd campaigned for Obama in 2008 but today heads the Motion Picture Association of America. He called the blackout on Wednesday waged by anti-SOPA advocates “the height of irresponsibility” when speaking to MSNBC and equated it to children screaming until they hold their breath.

Others within the Hollywood elite, including Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, have in the past donated large sums to the Obama campaign, which hosted three separate fundraisers at the Sony Pictures movie studio in Los Angeles before.

While 19 US Senators flipped their stance regarding SOPA on Wednesday alone and became opponents of the bill, the vast majority of them are Republicans. Democrats, on the other hand, are largely in support of both SOPA and PIPA, with Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) personally raking in almost one million dollars from supporters of the legislation. In a report published by the Raw Story on Thursday, the top 20 beneficiaries of special interest money in favor of PIPA doubles as a roster of some of the left’s biggest names, including Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV), Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Sen. Patrick Leahy, among others. In all, writes the website, the total amount of money handed over to the Democrats on the list of supporters of the act from special interests favoring SOPA amounts to more than $7 million. Anti-SOPA lobbyists, in comparison, have only contributed $807,502 to those very same Democrats.

“God knows how much money we’ve given to Obama and the Democrats and yet they’re not supporting our interests,” another anonymous Hollywood insider tells Deadline. “There’s been no greater supporters of him than we’ve been from the first day and the first fundraisers continuing until he was elected. We all were pleased. And, at its heart institutionally, Hollywood supports the Democrats. Now we need the administration to support us. This is a very important time for Hollywood.”

The Internet and computer industry has supported the Democratic Party to the tune of $52 million since 2007, which the Center for Responsive Politics says is up $12 million from the period of 2001 to 2006.

In regards to the week’s blackout, a senior Democratic congressional staffer close to the issue tells the National Journal, “Before this happened, the perception around here was that those who are in favor of ever-increasing copyright protections always won.” Because of Wednesday’s blackout, adds the staffer, “This may shift people’s expectations. It’s hard to say how much, but I think in a way that we haven’t seen in a long time. Folks on the Hill are realizing that there are a lot of people out there, and not just tech companies, that care about copyright issues.”

“This is something that could be repeated, but it couldn’t be repeated on just any issue. It resonates with people in having the freedom to go on the Internet and not be censored,” Rep. Zoe Lofgren, a Democrat from California and an opponent of the bills, adds.

[StylinRed]

SOPA bill withdrawn by its author, Lamar Smith

Reuters has just reported that the SOPA bill has been withdrawn by Texas Congressman Lamar Smith, SOPA's author. While the bill is off the table for now, there's no indication that it's being completely abandoned. Smith told Reuters that he's pulling the bill "until there is wider agreement on a solution."


It is clear that we need to revisit the approach on how best to address the problem of foreign thieves that steal and sell American inventions and products
Lamar Smith

SOPA tabled by Rep. Lamar Smith, for now | The Verge (http://www.theverge.com/2012/1/20/2721418/sopa-bill-withdrawn-by-lamar-smith)

[Mr.HappySilp]

Why can't the movie industry or the music industry learn something form the Adult industry. Look at all those online adlut websites that allows user to pay a monthly fee to download/steam movies for maybe $20. Look how much profit they make every year.

The Adult industry adotp to new technology and new method to sell thier products and they are doing very successful. Sure ppl sitll download them ilegeally or variou website that allows you steam for free but you don't see the adult industry make a big deal nor it made a dent in thier income.

Sure I download lot's of movies to watch but if I have to pay to watch them I can tell you 100% I will not watch. Movies I know I will watch I go to the theathers to watch to show my support.

[StylinRed]

i download, i buy, i go to the theatres

most of the time i buy the blu-ray of the movie ive downloaded



like the japanese study i like mentioning all the time they've found piracy actually increased sales for them in regards to anime

and the spanish+mpaa study which found the movie industry is actually more profitable now not because ticket prices are higher but because more people have been going to the movies (if ppl were only downloading you wouldnt find an increase in movie-goers)




re Happyslip, the movie industry is kind of catching on now by trying to offer ondemand of movies in theatres but they're being met with opposition from the networks and theatre owners (and they havent really gotten the idea since they want to charge like $50 a rental)

[Mr.HappySilp]

^^ And that is why NA is no longer competive anymore and other 3rd would countries are catching up. Within 10years (is already happening) NA will become so behind we will be called 3rd World countires.......

[underscore]

Why can't the movie industry or the music industry learn something form the Adult industry. Look at all those online adlut websites that allows user to pay a monthly fee to download/steam movies for maybe $20. Look how much profit they make every year.

The Adult industry adotp to new technology and new method to sell thier products and they are doing very successful. Sure ppl sitll download them ilegeally or variou website that allows you steam for free but you don't see the adult industry make a big deal nor it made a dent in thier income.

Sure I download lot's of movies to watch but if I have to pay to watch them I can tell you 100% I will not watch. Movies I know I will watch I go to the theathers to watch to show my support.

The retarded part is they don't even need to do that. Both movies and music still make shit piles of money and everyone decently high up whose involved is fucking rich. If they dropped ticket prices and BR costs down they would make even more, I remember this was mentioned a few years back with BR's being like $10 new and tickets being $5 again.

Honestly SOPA shouldn't have any grounds until Brad Pitt's income drops down to a mere 6 figures a month. Until then, fuck'em all. I can't understand people who are retardedly rich yet instead of retiring and enjoying life they spend all their time trying to squeeze every penny they can from people with a fraction of the money they do.

[Psykopathik]

Isnt SOPA dead?

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501465_162-57362990-501465/sopa-is-dead-smith-pulls-bill/

[GLOW]

LOL

http://i44.tinypic.com/2ica6vr.jpg

http://cdn.pimpmyspace.org/media/pms/c/kx/mv/7h/bazing0hf.gif

[StylinRed]

Isnt SOPA dead?

SOPA is dead, Smith pulls bill - Tech Talk - CBS News (http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501465_162-57362990-501465/sopa-is-dead-smith-pulls-bill/)

yeah, few posts up


he pulled the bill for now but also made a remark about "foreign" thieves :crazy2:

[TheNewGirl]

Don't assume it's dead. It will come back. And PIPA is still just shelved and has fewer detractors then SOPA.

The fact of the matter is until the ESA (the gaming industry's legal action group) and the MPA (the motion picture association) accept that times are changing and decide to adapt, these bills will keep coming back and there for we always have to be watchful.

Furthermore, Harper's been systematically locking down supposed copyright protection and anti piracy laws here in our own country that will have much the same effect as SOPA does as well.

So keep your eyes open. This is just the beginning.

[Psykopathik]

^^ no doubt, they will keep trying.