GoDaddy supports SOPA, customers take business elsewhere

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Darren Dirt

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January 18, 2012, 09:51:15 PM Last Edit: January 18, 2012, 10:00:32 PM by Darren Dirt
Quote from: Thorin on January 18, 2012, 09:08:22 PM
But you can still reach your article if you refresh the page and then stop the load before it redirects (push F5, then push Esc).

True... also I think post-load you can undo the blocker with Firebug etc. you could find the DIV that is hiding the content and just delete it (not quite as omg-so-easy as TheOnion.com's little "content protection" DIV is to remove!) But clicking ESCAPE is certainly the simplest method, as "revealed" by Wikipedia.





btw re. SOAP/PIPA -- does it even have any teeth? Cuz it has no factual basis...

problem: basing public policy on facts that exist only in partisan fantasies
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/numbers-cited-sopa-supporters-may-be-fictitious
http://www.itworld.com/security/242587/best-evidence-showing-we-need-sopa-based-govt-studies-never-existed




the non-techies hopefully click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative/Learn_more and ... learn more.

and for those curious how Wikipedians got to the blackout decision, "fascinating" reading here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative
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Darren Dirt

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January 18, 2012, 10:02:01 PM
blackout is OVER (as of 30 seconds ago)

http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/SOPA/Blackoutpage


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Mr. Analog

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January 19, 2012, 08:30:15 AM
Check out the MPAA's response to the SOPA/PIPA blackout

http://www.buzzfeed.com/jpmoore/read-the-mpaas-angry-response-to-the-sopa-blackou

As one of my tumblr friends put it: it's akin to Sauron calling the Hobbits terrorists...
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Thorin

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January 19, 2012, 08:44:48 AM
Yeah, from Chris Dodd, the man who emphatically stated he would not become a lobbyist after retiring from the US senate (because at the time there were allegations he was accepting bribes and grease money from lobby groups that he could work for after retiring), who is now the head of the MPAA and_clearly_ a lobbyist.

Interesting that the response the MPAA chose to go with is, "Stop it you guys, you're being childish", instead of, "Here's why SOPA/PIPA are good".  Indeed, if you read the release you'll see that the MPAA is now agreeing there is a very real and damaging problem with SOPA/PIPA.  Maybe they're finally starting to see that SOPA/PIPA are not good?
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Mr. Analog

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January 19, 2012, 08:48:41 AM
Yep, when they're all out of logical options there's nothing left but ad hominem I guess...

It's not why I'M SO GOOD it's why THEY'RE SO BAD.

At that point I just stop listening, which makes Canadian politics difficult to hear
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Darren Dirt

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January 19, 2012, 09:43:02 AM Last Edit: January 19, 2012, 10:02:49 AM by Darren Dirt
Quote from: Mr. Analog on January 19, 2012, 08:48:41 AM
Yep, when they're all out of logical options there's nothing left but ad hominem I guess...

It's not why I'M SO GOOD it's why THEY'RE SO BAD.

Welcome to the current GOP nomination circus ;)





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January 19, 2012, 10:33:04 AM
Quote from: Mr. Analog on January 19, 2012, 08:48:41 AM
Yep, when they're all out of logical options there's nothing left but ad hominem I guess...

It's not why I'M SO GOOD it's why THEY'RE SO BAD.

At that point I just stop listening, which makes Canadian politics difficult to hear
Politics? I thought we only had the Royal Canadian (hot air?) Farce!
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Darren Dirt

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January 19, 2012, 03:04:55 PM Last Edit: January 19, 2012, 03:07:57 PM by Darren Dirt
Some pretty famous web guy hopes SOPA *passes*! Why? Well...















































... "Because that's exactly what we need to wake up from this slumbering, do-nothing, "occupy everything," stagnant, non-action slump we Americans are in."

- http://maddox.xmission.com/

QuoteSOPA is the "Stop Online Piracy Act." It's a @%&#ty piece of legislation put together by puppetmaster lobbyists and politician puppets who don't know IP addresses from their assholes. My problem with this huge online protest against SOPA, and the reason I rarely take part in such protests, is because it doesn't address any problems, only the symptom. The problem isn't this @%&#ty bill, it's the people who sponsored it. So we protest this bill today, bang enough pots and pans to shame a few backers into not letting this bill pass, then what? Those same dip@%&#s who wrote this legislation still have jobs. They're going to try again, and again, and again until some mutation of this legislation passes. They'll sneak it into an appropriation bill while nobody's looking during recess, because there's too much lobbyist money at stake for them not to. We defeat SOPA today, only to face it again tomorrow. It's like trying to stop a cold by blowing your nose. It's time we go after the virus.
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Mr. Analog

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January 19, 2012, 03:53:13 PM
The sad thing is that things like the PATRIOT act swished on by reversing Magna Carta and providing a foothold for totalitarianism without much resistance but most people didn't care because it didn't touch them.

Does it really take a finger to the eye before "brain turn on"? Yes apparently.
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Darren Dirt

#39
January 19, 2012, 06:14:58 PM
Under SOPA, you could get 5 years for uploading a Michael Jackson song, 1 more year than the doctor who killed him. @%&#ing bull@%&# really.

http://twitter.com//ThatComicalGuy/status/159873215617966080
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January 19, 2012, 07:55:18 PM
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Darren Dirt

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January 20, 2012, 10:22:39 AM Last Edit: January 20, 2012, 11:06:02 AM by Darren Dirt
Hackers have targeted the US government and copyright organisations following the shutdown of the Megaupload file-sharing website.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16646023

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Hours later a statement linked to the @AnonymousWiki twitter account announced: "We Anonymous are launching our largest attack ever on government and music industry sites. Lulz. The FBI didn't think they would get away with this did they? They should have expected us."


http://www.universalmusic.com/
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lulz?

but seriously... wtf with the shutdown+indictments?
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3. L_and_D
1 HOUR AGO
"I don't understand what Megaupload could've done to prevent this.

They swiftly remove violating content, which will inevitably appear due to their business model. They do not condone piracy, and comply with DMCAs.

How does this differ from youtube? Mediafire? Or any website which unwittingly hosts copyrighted content?

That the staff have been indicted is sickening."
Agreed! Countless times copyrighted material gets removed, once somebody flags it as such. No different than Youtube. Just happens that Megaupload has a much larger # of uploads, and probably a smaller staff than YT. imo this kind of legal action is no different than shutting down the CNN website because some article has comments by an extremist threatening violence against POTUS or something ... and it doesn't get removed "fast enough".
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Mr. Analog

#42
January 20, 2012, 11:55:50 AM
MegaUpload was more than a bit dodgy however the manner in which foreigners were extradited is questionable (none of them were US citizens nor had they set foot on US soil, all they did was host a server in the US).

The retaliatory Anonymous strike was sort of pointless (take down some websites for a while big whoop) however the fallout from these attacks has me a bit worried about how the afeared slugs in Congress will react.

I hate to put on the tinfoil hat but it seems to me that after a day of painful damage control and expensive spin it would be in the interest of Big Media to bait a trap for knee-jerk reactionaries to do something Stupid and Illegal (DDoS) so that they can prattle on about the ugly side of things rather loudly, burying the shining light of the Wednesday blackouts.

It worries me what the average muggle is going to think of all this, they get their news from the Radio/Television hate-machine or Rupert Murdoch soaked broadsheet lies.

Of course on the light side these issues have finally penetrated the public consciousness, I was taken by surprise when some less than tech savvy friends of mine were actually all up in arms over the upcoming ACTA signing hitting the UK soon. Now they know what I was tweeting about back in Oct/Sept and why sites like OpenMedia.ca even exist. These issues are finally in the open and on the table.

Anyway, it's been interesting to watch these rights issues unfold over the last decade and now that we can more clearly see how they're being used I think more people can help oppose the monolithic dominance that currently exists.

May you live in interesting times indeed...
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Darren Dirt

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January 20, 2012, 12:30:52 PM
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