yeah a lot of this stuff has actually been discussed for over a decade in the not-yet-completed doha round of WTO talks. it's interesting that all this stuff is going down right now

Sopa's only down in its current form, so no-one  get too cocky. Plus now we should make a fuss before the EU signs ACTA (Apparently the US already has...) And Bonzi, some petitions regarding both issues are international, so pitch in if you can.
OPEN is also a concern.

You might also consider that, though it looked optimistic when many representatives jumped on the bandwagon and came out against SOPA - even those who co-sponsored it - they did agree with internet censorship; they agreed with it even when it was obvious that was what the bill was about. They backed off only when they saw that opposition numbers might actually mean something in the next election and had fewer people spoken up, it would have passed overwhelmingly with more than 2/3 of the representatives. These are not people who care about the internet. These aren't even people who care about your opinions. These are just people who care about their seats and their kickbacks and the moment the RIAA or MPAA hands them another check, they will vote in favor of the next censorship bill unless there is an even more vocal opposition.

Because you better believe the check will be bigger next time.

I forget, what makes ACTA worse?

lol. our country is tryin to do its own version

According to Ramon Chuaying, executive vice president of Universal Records, the Philippine Association of the Record Industry, the Motion Picture Anti-Film Piracy Council, the Motion Picture Association, the Business Software Alliance, and the IP Coalition have joined forces to lobby for an anti-piracy measure similar to SOPA and PIPA.

Man that bites, how can we stop it?

Interestingly, something's happening over here too now.
 
http://yle.fi/uutiset/kotimaa/2012/01/piraattiesto_purjehtii_lakiin_3200742.html
 
That site's in finnish though but a crude/bad translation (groan sorry this is bad, i never knew it'd be this hard...HELLA hard, why i wonder...propably just temporary difficulty at least i frequent gw... ¨:^B ):

Yesterday (Tue 24th), an anti-piracy law was suggested for consideration as a written law (ahaha bonziiiii) in which the court can rule the operator to deny it's customer to access copyright violating site. At the moment the law does not give guidance on how court can interfere with internet piracy.

Earlier in January Helsinki's district court ruled a law that forced the teleoperator Elisa to deny access to Bittorrent. Elisa complained of the law to the Royal Court. Meanwhile, the music producers demand Sonera and DNA (two big operators) to follow as well.
The copyright commitee had a one differing opinion. The representator of teleoperators said that they wouldn't want any kind of bill about anti-piracy to be written. One of the biggest problems of the law is that the internet user can easily get around of the restrictions.

The copyright commitee's chairman Niklas Bruun says that the finnish bill strives to be more just [than ][/than] (i'm pr sure the man is ref to sopa). The expanditure of anti-piracy restrictions will be taken into account by the bill: If the pirate couldn't be brought to the Finnish justice, the one who pays the anti-piracy restrictions would be the one seeking the restrictions.

For example, in the case of the Elisa's complaint to the Royal Court (? i'm pretty sure the text indicates the complaint), the litigation expenses and the anti-piracy restriction's technical execution wouldn't be financed by the teleoperator but by the music producers.

so basicly, if the music company wanted to stop pirating then they need to be the ones to fork over the money to pay for anyt expenses incured in stopping it? So in other words shut up or put up?

what do i press to learn kung-fu.........................

for some reason I find this funny as hell: http://hackertyper.com/

your right that is funny, what's funnier to me is that I actually understand it, well most of it , if i remember correctly C++ uses struct's so it's a C based language.

EDIT: i also just realised swordfish.

I've had the name for years, just realised that were talking about hacking and that my name is swordfish, like that crappy film.

that's the movie with halle berry's titties in it

fuckin' hell don'tt alk about titties I been out here too long now I won't be able to focus all day.

Somebody told me that jennifer lopez's ass has its own insurance policy.

so it does... umm wearnt we suposed to be talking about somthing else?

no

my question is if jennifer lopez's ass has its own insurance policy does it also need its own copyright protection?

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