/r/SOPA
For the discussion of the Stop Online Piracy Act.
A community to discuss the important matters surrounding Internet censorship laws, including Acts proposed in Congress:
and the international Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement which is being debated in the EU Parliament.
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Senate Cloture Vote on PROTECT IP (PIPA) scheduled for January 24th, 2012. POSTPONED!
SOPA tabled on January 20th, Lamar Smith says "until there is wider agreement on a solution."
Information on H.R.3261 - Stop Online Piracy Act at OpenCongress.org
Information on S.968 PROTECT IP Act at OpenCongress.org
Information on H.R.1981 - Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act of 2011
Learn more about ACTA at Stop ACTA
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List of companies that have expressed support for SOPA or PIPA,.
List of companies that have expressed concern with SOPA and PIPA.
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Where would be the place to ask for help investigating digital piracy?
I have links to a number of sites (all clones of each other) selling hundreds, if not thousands, of pirated digital products. I also am fairly certain I have identified one of the key people behind them, but don't have definitive proof.
Why is SOPA bad I'm new here
I found an FTP to rainfall data on data.gov. A (very) little bit of digging and I discovered that this same FTP hosts over 8TBs of climate data, presentations and other stuff. This is all stuff that Trump is working to suppress.
I'm downloading as much as I can as fast as I can, but my internet is too slow and my hard drive is too small. I need help.
Here's the link: ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov
I've downloaded Extreme Events and am working my way through Paleo.
So we know that Trump's guy Ajit Pai is shooting to kill net neutrality, and now Trump wants to "close up the Internet" ostensibly to stop ISIS - but we know how his [and other power-hungry politicians'] mind really works.
Only a massive response from the people can safeguard a free and open internet. We set the precedent five years ago this month!
What do you say?
What you do not know CAN hurt you and already has. Uncle Sam censors the internet almost as much as China and was caught doing it by a former federal agent turned whistle-blower. Anonymous, Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, and Jim Stone can all confirm this here http://www.worldlawdirect.com/forum/international-law-news/91696-american-government-now-censors-much-china-heres-proof.html
Just received an Email from Google asking support to kill the Zombie SOPA bill. Here's their letter: http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-mpaas-attempt-to-revive-sopa.html
While searching for SOPA I came across a few posts [edit+ "on Reddit"] worth mentioning: https://pay.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/2pp4ng/anyone_else_get_the_feeling_this_north_koreasony/ https://pay.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/2pqlxa/anyone_else_concerned_that_this_sony_hacking/
(Please note I haven't used reedit a lot so if there are rules or etiquette I am breaking please tell me. Also if there is a better place to post this please tell me Also I'd be happy for any advice on how to promote my idea)
I want immediate access to everything there is--music, literature, movies, TV, sports, live events ,news, magazines.etc . from all counties going as far back in time as possible--I want to view the media from any device in state of the art quality for that device.
I want to be able to pay a reasonable fee for this. The reason I torrent now and don't pay a fee is because it is too complicated, inconvenient, cumbersome and difficult to navigate the various methods of getting different kinds of media. And half the time if it's something old it is not available at all.
For example, when the internet first came out tried paying for an audio book from a well known source. After the provider more or less filled me with bloat ware -- I was able to listen to the book--but later when I switched devises or PCs--or wanted to lend a friend a copy (which everyone did with a book before the internet), it became either too cumbersome/expensive/impossible to do without having to learn about formats and stuff I didn't want to have in my head.
And that was just one audio book. The problem metastcized and became un manageable over different types of media through ever changing technology.
Then I learned how to Torrent. With a tiny investment of hardware, software and sweat equity I was suddenly, magically able to get what I wanted, when I wanted it, past or present, indexed and searchable--often finding content unavailable anywhere at any cost--and from across the globe.
I wasn't trying to cheat the people who produced the media out of anything. I'll gladly pay for a "legitimate" Pirate Bay style service a monthly fee for instant access to everything.
Let Hollywood--as well as whomever produced a sitcom in the sixties, wrote a book in the 80's, sung a song in the 90's or played a hockey game last night, etc--let them seed such a service and take a piece of the action.
I am not trying to steal your copy rights--I am just trying to, without getting a headache--find a way to enjoy what you have to offer.
Copy write holders you should think about why people like me torrent and develop a distribution method for a global seed box of material available in a seamless manner.
If a couple of big players from across the media spectrum, from publishers to TV to film to music etc would get a huge and deep library together--just like Pirate Bay but deeper and better--and if you tried charging a very small fee for this--in the long run all the little guys would join and there would be such interest that everyone could be fairly compensated. A tiny fee would start making a profit several years out.
So you SOPA'ists out there stop whining about pirating and threatening with letters from my ISP--and stop threatening to basically break the internet in the backhanded SOPA style we now learn you are plotting.
It is you and only you who have power to ensure your products continually have value--by taking a business hint from TPB phenomenon and organizing a TPB style way for copy written media to be distributed.
One wouldn't need to pay middlemen ISPS a fortune ($250/month in my case) for a slow broadband by world standards containing hundreds of useless channels of programming. I think that somewhere in that $250 is where is where the money really is to compensate you for your content. (That and the money I am now going to pay for a VPN)
So stop lobbying, and picking on hackers and threatening us all with the sour grapes of the bad deals you made with iSPs. Take your content back and distribute it directly to me seamlessly, fairly and economically using TPB as a business model. Then go pay something to the hackers you've helped to jail for the idea they invented that you need.
All anyone really needs is broadband connection fast enough to stream---and access to EVERYTHING under copy write for a fee.