Websites go dark in protest

[KaPluie]

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/01/ ... latestnews

I am against the bill. The intent is fine, and its easy to argue these "rouge" websites should be shut down, but not at the expense of giving our government the right to censor the internet. If the government has the power to censor the internet, its a pretty slippery slope in terms of figuring out which websites merit being banned within the US.

[Octopus]

Seeing as how I get 90% of my entertainment-content from the web for free these days, I have to say I'm agin it. Plus, freedom of speech, and liberty, and stuff. Greedy capitalist whores of Hollywood, up against the wall, mf'rs!

[heyfolks]

http://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpol ... ymore.html

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

Ron Paul and Paul Ryan have some well written essays opposing this on their sites and on Facebook.

[winged wheel]

Good to see that Rubio withdrew his co-sponsorship of PIPA in the Senate.

Also at Chris Dodd (who is now the MPAA Chairman, aka lobbyist) complaining that anti-SOPA websites are abusing their power in protesting, saying that they're skewing the facts to further their corporate interests. Pretty funny coming from someone as corrupt as Chris Dodd.

[KaPluie]

I get plenty of questionable material from sites overseas... however I feel like I'm working on borrowed time; I expect it to become increasingly more dicey and difficult to acquire free digital content as time goes on. Censoring the internet is an appalling way to solve the problem, however.

[parker]

I get plenty of questionable material from sites overseas... however I feel like I'm working on borrowed time; I expect it to become increasingly more dicey and difficult to acquire free digital content as time goes on. Censoring the internet is an appalling way to solve the problem, however.

I'm going to disagree with your last, for everything that has vanished or been shutdown in the last 10 years, 2 new methods of acquiring content have sprung up to replace it.

Thanks to Octo, I received a warning from my provider that NBC or ABC had complained copyright infringement for downloading Revenge episode 7 (I actually downloaded 1-11). My provider said basically, we won't give them your name unless they sue us, but stop it. My answer in court would be I pay for cable, including this channel, and therefore paid for the show. My cable company sells me a DVR so I wouldn't be watching the commercials anyway- would you prefer I never ever watch the show or I get caught up and start watching it in a way that justifies ad revenue? And BTW, since any idiot can make it available for free, why can't you? I should be able to go to any networks website, enter my cable subscriber number and download high quality copies of missed episodes. So go fuck your copyright, I got some shows to download.

[thatptkid]

If I could give this more than +1 I would. 1 million percent agree that is the way it should be.

[Barbrady]