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Sky Aisling

Joined: 27 Jun 2009 Posts: 1200 Location: Port Townsend, WA. USA
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Posted: Mon 28 Nov 2011, 00:20 Post subject:
SOPA and What it Means to Users of this Forum? [IT'S BACK!] Subject description: SOPA morphed into CISPA |
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Edit: April 2012 - SOPA Morphed into CISPA -
See page 6.
Here are some in-depth articles about the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) poised to be voted on this year in the U.S.A.
SOPA will effect users world wide.
I post them as a starting point of discussion and awareness of this act.
Looks like there is a new act called OPEN being offered.
I started a new thread about the OPEN act:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=75422
SOPA and PIPA Delayed
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120120/08335717489/internet-wins-pipa-sopa-delayed.shtml
US Senate postpones Tuesday vote on PIPA
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9223588/US_Senate_postpones_Tuesday_vote_on_PIPA
Molly Wood's Blog
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57362437-83/anonymous-goes-nuclear-everybody-loses/
Just In...can anyone verify?
Anonymous #OpMegaUpload Attacks Justice Department, MPAA, RIAA
http://www.fastcompany.com/1809775/anonymous-opmegaupload-attacks-justice-department-mpaa-riaa
Khan Academy Explains SOPA-PIPA
http://boingboing.net/2012/01/18/khan-academy-explains-sopapip.html
SOPA In Fight Over Piracy Bills, New Economy Rises Against Old
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/19/technology/web-protests-piracy-bill-and-2-key-senators-change-course.html?_r=1
SOPA Strike!
http://americancensorship.org/
SOPA Track - Check How Congress Votes on SOPA
http://sopatrack.com/
Wikipedia to join Web blackout protesting SOPA
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57359773/wikipedia-to-join-web-blackout-protesting-sopa/
Obama Administration Comes Out Against SOPA, PIPA
http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/01/obama-administration-comes-out-against-sopa-pipa.php
note: GoDaddy hosts this forum.
GoDaddy time to ...?
http://mashable.com/2011/12/30/its-time-to-give-godaddy-a-break/
GoDaddy bows to boycott, now 'opposes' SOPA copyright bill
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-57349913-281/godaddy-bows-to-boycott-now-opposes-sopa-copyright-bill/
GoDaddy Requires Photo ID to Transfer
http://digg.com/news/technology/go_daddy_requires_photo_id_to_transfer
GoDaddy Boycott Kicks Off Tomorrow
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/12/28/on-eve-net-boycott-dump-godaddy-exodus-begins/
GoDaddy Drops SOPA Support, maybe ...
http://tidbits.com/article/12692
GoDaddy's Reversal a Win for Customer Pressure
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/246967/godaddys_reversal_a_win_for_customer_pressure.html
Go Daddy loses over 37,000 domains due to SOPA stance
http://venturebeat.com/2011/12/24/godaddy-domain-loss/
Where Do Your Elected Officials Stand on SOPA?
http://mashable.com/2011/12/30/sopa-track-app/
Reddit to go silent in SOPA protest
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-57356544-52/reddit-to-go-silent-in-sopa-protest/
Al Gore Comes Out Against SOPA
http://mashable.com/2012/01/06/al-gore-sopa/
Video game industry still supports anti-piracy bill SOPA
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/12/31/video-game-industry-still-supports-anti-piracy-bill-despite-reports/
Comments from EFFECTOR about SOPA
https://supporters.eff.org/index.php?q=civicrm/mailing/view&reset=1&id=108
Quote: | Wrapping Up a Week Of Action Against SOPA
It looks like the Week of Action Against SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act, has made a difference. Although there wasn't enough opposition to kill the bill outright, the messages we've been sending for weeks — that the bill would create blacklists for online censorship, harm cybersecurity efforts, set a bad international precedent, and lead to a fractured Internet — couldn't be ignored. Chairman Lamar Smith acknowledged that the Judiciary Committee didn't yet have all the facts, and announced that markup would be suspended until the next practicable opportunity — tentatively scheduled for late January. |
Silicon Valley Execs Comments:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57342914-83/silicon-valley-execs-blast-sopa-in-open-letter/?tag=nl.e757
BoingBoing:
http://boingboing.net/2011/12/17/wtf-is-happening-with-sopa-now.html
Surprise Microsoft quietly opposes SOPA
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-57330078-281/surprise-microsoft-quietly-opposes-sopa-copyright-bill/
The EFF series on SOPA:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/10/disastrous-ip-legislation-back-%E2%80%93-and-it%E2%80%99s-worse-ever
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/10/sopa-hollywood-finally-gets-chance-break-Internet
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/11/hollywood-new-war-on-software-freedom-and-internet-innovation
included a link to SOPA:
http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/pdf/112%20HR%203261.pdf
Another SOPA piece with video:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/11/28/1040530/-Congress-is-close-to-destroying-the-internet-%28no-hyperbole%29
SOPA Alternative:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/12/sopa-on-the-ropes-bipartisan-alternative-to-net-censorship-emerges.ars
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SFR

Joined: 26 Oct 2011 Posts: 1655
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Posted: Sat 24 Dec 2011, 14:54 Post subject:
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Someone made an excellent comment about SOPA recently:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w6GtwOvnWM
Greetings!
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nooby
Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 10548 Location: SwedenEurope
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Posted: Sat 24 Dec 2011, 16:19 Post subject:
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Thanks for starting the thread.
A lot of organizations and individual persons
here in Europe is very upset about it and so am I.
The companies behind the Lobby that proposed it
gets too much power in their hand.
Youtube as we know it today will most likely have to change
a lot.
and even our forum here has to be very vigilant and stop
any link to music or other copyrighted things.
So a villain that want to destroy for us can bomb us
with such links and there are too few moderators to keep up
so it is bad bad bad.
_________________ I use Google Search on Puppy Forum
not an ideal solution though
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SFR

Joined: 26 Oct 2011 Posts: 1655
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Posted: Sat 24 Dec 2011, 16:45 Post subject:
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Exactly - I can imagine one is putting, let's say, "Copyright bomb" on some site,
then site will be closed, and so on, and so on...
...and we can reach the day, when accessing net we'll get "Sorry, internet has been banned" message...
Half funny, half serious, but possible...
Greetings!
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SFR

Joined: 26 Oct 2011 Posts: 1655
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Posted: Sat 24 Dec 2011, 18:05 Post subject:
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One more thought:
IF SOPA will become reality, forums like this must have:
1. Brilliant filters to distinguish links leading to copyrighted materials, or
2. Prohibition of posting links, or
3. Moderation of every post before publishing.
Every point listed above (I assume that 1st point is rather impossible to implement) leads to death of free forum concept, IMHO...
PS. D@mn it, why I became so pessimistic today??
Let someone present any positive point of view, PLEASE!
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Adagio
Joined: 06 May 2011 Posts: 126 Location: TerraAustralis
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Posted: Sun 25 Dec 2011, 02:59 Post subject:
How to transfer a domain from GoDaddy |
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Quote: | Go Daddy loses over 37,000 domains due to SOPA stance
http://venturebeat.com/2011/12/24/godaddy-domain-loss/ |
How to transfer a domain from GoDaddy
http://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx/876/83/how-to-transfer-a-domain-from-godaddy
For those that don't get the relevance of this, this forum is hosted on GoDaddy, and they are the reason that the forum goes offline for periods.
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nooby
Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 10548 Location: SwedenEurope
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Posted: Sun 25 Dec 2011, 06:06 Post subject:
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Yes that is unfortunate. We have to donate then to John
so he can afford a Host that is reliable.
Back to SOPA.
I trust it will be implemented. That Lobby that have taken it this far
spent some 200 million US Dollar on forcing it to get through.
So if they are that at it then they will not give up on it even if
postponed for the moment over Christmas and New Year.
February them will go at it again and see it get fully implemented.
Maybe them take it easy first and only give warning but I agree
that most likely links has to be approved of by the Admin/Mods.
Or else any forum can be crushed by a "Lulz" kid that find it fun to
be destructive.
_________________ I use Google Search on Puppy Forum
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jpeps
Joined: 31 May 2008 Posts: 3217
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Posted: Sun 25 Dec 2011, 12:27 Post subject:
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SFR wrote: |
Every point listed above (I assume that 1st point is rather impossible to implement) leads to death of free forum concept, IMHO...
PS. D@mn it, why I became so pessimistic today |
Try not pessimistic enough. There are many useful advantages for the government to gain controls of the internet. That's what police states do.
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nubc

Joined: 23 Jan 2007 Posts: 1907 Location: USA
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Posted: Sun 25 Dec 2011, 23:41 Post subject:
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VP Joe Biden is a longtime copyright enforcement weener, having sponsored several bills over the last decade. He is indirectly responsible for the Obama administration's appointment of 5 RIAA attorneys to the DoJ.
http://www.tinymixtapes.com/features/joe-bidens-problem-music
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Aitch

Joined: 04 Apr 2007 Posts: 6815 Location: Chatham, Kent, UK
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Posted: Mon 26 Dec 2011, 12:45 Post subject:
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SFR
Thanks for the Dan Bull video - goodstuff, nice pink floyd sample guitar riffs - I'm sure they won't mind....
http://puppylinux.info/topic/is-copyright-protection-being-taken-too-far#post-2594
SOPA/ProtectIP....same old puritanism, dressed up unethical greed!
Here's a video made, expecting SOPA to have been passed...in the event, it wasn't
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=qeEcoi8kEuU
Part of the problem - congress brainiacs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=i6x1sYYqKLY
Aitch
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big_bass
Joined: 13 Aug 2007 Posts: 1742
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Posted: Mon 26 Dec 2011, 13:00 Post subject:
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Quote: | Although Go Daddy reversed their stance on SOPA, it wasn’t before 37,000 domains were transfer off of its service, according to information reported by The Domains. The report indicates that over 15,000 domains were transferred off Thursday and another 21,054 domains on Friday. If you factor in the $6.99 to $10.99 fees associated with each of those domain registrations, Go Daddy is losing a significant amount of money. |
if you know how business works
you dont have a business when your customers
leave
since this forum uses Go Daddy
it would be wise to do some back ups soon
this will only help those that are not complacent
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=74404
why people react to problems differently
some panic some complain some react by looking for new solutions
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Moved_My_Cheese%3F
Joe
fixed typo "are"
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Flash
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Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 12821 Location: Arizona USA
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Posted: Mon 26 Dec 2011, 14:37 Post subject:
Re: How to transfer a domain from GoDaddy |
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Adagio wrote: | ... this forum is hosted on GoDaddy, and they are the reason that the forum goes offline for periods... |
That's probably not a true statement. I don't think GoDaddy is the reason the forum went down, but GoDaddy's (lack of) response after the forum went down was certainly counterimpressive.
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jpeps
Joined: 31 May 2008 Posts: 3217
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Posted: Mon 26 Dec 2011, 18:40 Post subject:
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Thanks. This offered great clarity on all the complex issues involved; however I found some others that offered better focus and insight :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxOQZMWP2vU&NR=1&feature=endscreen
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Aitch

Joined: 04 Apr 2007 Posts: 6815 Location: Chatham, Kent, UK
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Posted: Mon 26 Dec 2011, 18:53 Post subject:
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Ha Ha
She's nearly as bad as the Congress guy
This isn't bad, if you want more info/reality
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhwuXNv8fJM
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-57343367-281/meet-sopa-author-lamar-smith-hollywoods-favorite-republican/
Ron Paul, where are you?
http://www.techdirt.com/blog/?tag=sopa
How many puppy uploads on filesharing sites will disappear because of this?
Aitch
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SFR

Joined: 26 Oct 2011 Posts: 1655
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Posted: Mon 26 Dec 2011, 20:11 Post subject:
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LOL , politicians are the same (idiots) all over the world.
But...let's forgive them, they're just weak and brainless puppets of corporations' schemers.
I'm crushed!
But, in a contrary, this cutie seems to be quite sharp:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-lGyMe931w
Meanwhile:
At last, after hard, intensive thinking (<- joke), I finally found a bright side of this whole SOPA thing.
When SOPA becomes true and our (illusion of?) freedom will be restricted, it may cause, that our sense of solidarity will grow
and more people start to publish their work under GNU/GPL and Creative Commons.
If the enemy is known and threatens the masses, people (even if they were antagonists) tend to unite and share with each other.
Or am I naive..?
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