No lairs. We will all go together when we go.
Internet, we hardly knew ye.
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GasBandit
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Well, we have to BUILD the bombs somewhere hidden or the bluepills will take them away from us before they're all ready.
Once more, but in English this time?
GasBandit
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Never mind, you're kicked out of the lair. I'll do it myself. You'd probably just knock shit over and grumble all day anyway.
GasBandit
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You were kicked out of the lair because you didn't understand the purpose of the lair was not survival.
Less talking GB...more bomb building.
Necronic
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Since this was at one point about RIAA stuff I thought you guys might like this little story
http://gizmodo.com/5869321/dear-recording-industry-pay-9-million-for-pirating-tv-shows-or-shut-up
It's about cats.
http://gizmodo.com/5869321/dear-recording-industry-pay-9-million-for-pirating-tv-shows-or-shut-up
It's about cats.
GasBandit
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Two things - word has it the house might try to sneak SOPA through this week after all, and here's a handy firefox plugin that completely castrates SOPA.
http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/170...ts-internet-blacklisting-if-sopa-becomes-law/
http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/170...ts-internet-blacklisting-if-sopa-becomes-law/
Thank you, Firefox!
Yeah, installed it too.
So did you guys hear, SOPA will work because only 3% of users in "countries that engage in substantial filtering" are circumventing those filter (on page 8): http://www.itif.org/files/2011-pipa-sopa-respond-critics.pdf
See, China doesn't have a piracy problem because it blocks it's internet...
Seriously, i can't wait to be back to the way things where in the 90's, when you had to go buy a pirated copy from teh shady guy that had access to high enough speed internet to d/l the iso for about 3-4 times the cost of a blank CD... and then you'd make a copy for all your friends... it's way better because it's really imposible to track then and the made up numbers they'll use arguing against piracy will be even more imaginary.
See, China doesn't have a piracy problem because it blocks it's internet...
Seriously, i can't wait to be back to the way things where in the 90's, when you had to go buy a pirated copy from teh shady guy that had access to high enough speed internet to d/l the iso for about 3-4 times the cost of a blank CD... and then you'd make a copy for all your friends... it's way better because it's really imposible to track then and the made up numbers they'll use arguing against piracy will be even more imaginary.
You can also send musik albums via MSN,so sharing with a friend is still a viable option. Better yet,if that friend lives in a country where you can download stuff (we are talking theoretically). Unless SOPA banns MSN or all the other InstaMessengers that allow sharing/sending of files.
figmentPez
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This is a good video on the hypocrisy of the media companies, and how they promoted and distributed file sharing software for more than a decade:
My god... that video. I never even realized half the things he pointed out, but the facts are there. I myself remember downloading LimeWire when it was one of the top downloads on Downloads.com, and it never even occurred to me that the website was owned by CBS. Kazaa, Grokster, EDonkey, I got all of them from Download.com.
Get the video out people, get it out to everyone you know.
Get the video out people, get it out to everyone you know.
Boston DA wants info on Twitter account; Twitter forwards subpoena to user, who publicizes it
I guess the Boston PD are pissed over Occupy Boston tweets.
One of the commenters makes a good point--if SOPA/PIPA were already passed, the government could simply shut down Twitter entirely until they gave in. I feel like many of our elected officials wish they had power in a country without free speech.
I guess the Boston PD are pissed over Occupy Boston tweets.
One of the commenters makes a good point--if SOPA/PIPA were already passed, the government could simply shut down Twitter entirely until they gave in. I feel like many of our elected officials wish they had power in a country without free speech.
It looks like it has officially lost some supporters:
GoDaddy comes out in favor of Sopa, is threatened by a boycott, is threatened with the loss of all of the icanhazcheeseburger sites, back pedals, and then pack pedals some more.
Nintendo, Electronic Arts and Sony Electronics have withdrawn support for Sopa as well.
There are still a number of supporters, which can be found here.
GoDaddy comes out in favor of Sopa, is threatened by a boycott, is threatened with the loss of all of the icanhazcheeseburger sites, back pedals, and then pack pedals some more.
Nintendo, Electronic Arts and Sony Electronics have withdrawn support for Sopa as well.
There are still a number of supporters, which can be found here.
Wow, this I found very surprising.
Oh look, the US decided to bully Spain into making a SOPA-style law.
Spanish Piracy Law
This stuff is just starting to scare me.
Spanish Piracy Law
This stuff is just starting to scare me.
As a Canadian, I would have to say 1812.
Right around the time the kid in red got the same brand of firecrackers we did. Then we flipped out because only WE should have firecrackers (and maybe a few of our closest friends, if they do as we say.)
GasBandit
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Well, if that's the metaphor, maybe we should stop giving all the other kids lunch money, since they can all afford firecrackers.
You don't have to tell me twice. I'm still wondering why we gave them lunch money to begin with. Sure, some of them need it and use it responsibly (or try to), but a lot of them don't.
reddit insists that SOPA is so over the top that it's just a "distraction" for the less ridiculous but still dangerous to everything that is right and holy ProtectIP act.
I dunno, I just know that trying to censor an increasingly technologically prolific population is not gonna work for long.
I dunno, I just know that trying to censor an increasingly technologically prolific population is not gonna work for long.
Seconded.
All this is going to do is make it harder for Congresspeople to be able to find and watch free porn on their laptops while they are sitting in session. And THEN they will complain.
--Patrick
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