Internet Censorship 2.0: FML

[Pluvia]

Sounds good, lets just hope VGA's most anticipated game of the year doesn't come out in March.

Spoiler

Oh.

 

[etecoon]

Speaking of shady, people should be boycotting BioWare year round to begin with. SWTOR literally tanked so hard that they tried to hide the unsubscribe page and hid the button for it on that page too, I hope they get sued into oblivion.

 

[Crimson King]

Not quite. Though trying to absolve Sony here because their gaming division hasn't specifically spoken is pretty ludicrous when you see like every other branch of Sony on that list -_-

I do agree though that NoA probably would support it even if they haven't publicly said so, NoA -is- pretty terrible.

Sony is like my company: each branch is roughly unrelated. Case in point, Fox News is ultra conservative, but Fox Network (and FX) are super liberal.

 

[etecoon]

I know there's some degree of separation, but I'd think they'd still be run under some architecture of like minded philosophy, and as I just edited that post to say...Sony's overall philosophy, including the history of it's game division in particular, has shown a patterned behavior of undermining their own customers. Shoddy manufacturing and then refusing to fix consoles until sued? Not bothering to encrypt CC data? Removing advertised features at a later date via forced firmware updates? Trying to subpoena people for merely having visited a youtube page? That is all from Sony Electronics, this kind of thing is just what they do.

 

[Vinylic.]

I don't know if you guys already know but msnbc is supporting sopa.

They even have a commercial.

 

[theeboredone]

Lamar Smith is pulling the bill from discussion.

http://mashable.com/2012/01/20/sopa-is-dead-smith-pulls-bill/

Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Megaupload technically supporting illegal activity anyways? I'm pretty sure I've found myself on that site watching some episodes of a tv show, and I know others do that as well.

 

[Luigitoilet]

Lamar Smith is pulling the bill from discussion.

http://mashable.com/2012/01/20/sopa-is-dead-smith-pulls-bill/

Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Megaupload technically supporting illegal activity anyways? I'm pretty sure I've found myself on that site watching some episodes of a tv show, and I know others do that as well.

yeah. the thing about the megaupload case was that there are years and years of emails amongst the CEOs and other workers that directly acknowledged the piracy as well as MU employees uploading hundreds of gigs of pirated material themselves. They really ****ed themselves over being so smug and loose-lipped about what they were doing. With those emails, they could not pull the "we just provide the filesharing service, it's not our fault pirates abused it" because it was exceedingly obvious that megaupload was the pirates.

 

[Claire Diviner]

yeah. the thing about the megaupload case was that there are years and years of emails amongst the CEOs and other workers that directly acknowledged the piracy as well as MU employees uploading hundreds of gigs of pirated material themselves. They really ****ed themselves over being so smug and loose-lipped about what they were doing. With those emails, they could not pull the "we just provide the filesharing service, it's not our fault pirates abused it" because it was exceedingly obvious that megaupload was the pirates.

The fact they were also laundering money didn't make their case any better. Oh, the poor, naive fools.

 

[etecoon]

I'll just leave this here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaAcyPqc-f8

 

[Claire Diviner]

I'll just leave this here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaAcyPqc-f8

I've just recently heard of ACTA.

My question is why? Why do these "higher ups" insist on destroying and controlling freedom and privacy? *sighs*

 

[Veetaak]

You can make puns of Acta, Pipa and Sopa in swedish, it's pretty hilarious

 

[Crimson King]

I've just recently heard of ACTA.

My question is why? Why do these "higher ups" insist on destroying and controlling freedom and privacy? *sighs*

From what I understand, ACTA isn't a law, but an agreement (hence the title), so they can, and I think did, sign this without any word from the people.

 

[Laem]

Well kind of depends what you mean by 'word of the people'. These agreements sure arent 'signed' by referendum (that would be ridiculous). But afaik the EU parliament got democratic legitimacy, for what its worth.
I have some serious doubts btw just how bad ACTA is. I skimmed over a part of it and didn't really see anything bad.

 

[The Fail Tracer]

I'll just leave this here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaAcyPqc-f8

I showed this video to someone else, and I was told that this guy was probably overreacting. She brought up a couple points... Apparently, it costs a LOT of money to extradite people, and the paperwork that officials have to sign is just too much trouble for them.

Maybe that's just pure optimism, but I hope these points are true as well.

 

[Peeze]

Yeah that guy made some good points, but his sensationalism made him just like the people he was ridiculing in my eyes.

 

[Sol9000]

I didn't click that because about 20 times a year we hear about how the Internet is like 2 days away from being completely censored, and everyone freaks out and calls the government crazy, then nothing happens and everyone forgets about it.

Seriously this stuff is worse than end of the world predictions.

Actually it's MUCH worse. If the internet got censored, do you think humanity would be effected in such a way it'd go extinct? No

Sol9000, postin' nonsense since 2008