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[Seinami]

Have fun debating. Saw there wasn't one about this, have fun with ranting. >3>

[DarkDevourer]

You just started one hell of a debate!

[St Squiggy]

SOPA died coincidentally mashable.com/2012/01/20/sopa-is-dead-smith-pulls-bill/

[Seinami]

http://fightforthefuture.org/pipa/

Pay attention. This is also a target.

[Symbolic]

Both the US Senate and House have respectively postponed proceedural votes next week on PIPA and SOPA. I hadn't heard much about the bills until a few months ago, and it appeared they had quite amount of bi-partisan support at the time. Since then, it has broken up quite a bit. I'm not so sure if this will ever pass and I'm un-sure what the Obama administration's view on this particular matter. But, don't expect this to come up on any primaries this election as a key topic.

[Seinami]

SOPA and PIPA are designed to tamper with the inner workings of the Internet of the United states to block out unwanted Piracy-related sites. (This will include Youtube, which has who-the-frig-knows how much copyrighted stuff in it). Any US-based servers will be immediately deleted from the internet, if they have so much as one infringing link.

Think about it:
• Fansites have to have written consent from the respective games in order to become even online.
• Any Foreign-based site will be blocked out from US-based servers so they can no longer be used by Citizens that infringe on the SOPA/PIPA base.
• Copyrights are based by big corporations, thus a normal citizen who "Accidentally" infringes on a link can be sent to jail for 5 solid years. With a frig load of fines. :/

My Vote: NO. >O NOOOO NOOOOOOOOOOO NEVERRRRR. >/

[Jess]

They both stink!

[The Last Dovahkiin]

My answer is definitely no, because it defies what our country was based on in the first place, and ultimately is unconstitutional.

[Seinami]

SOPA died coincidentally mashable.com/2012/01/20/sopa-is-dead-smith-pulls-bill/

Woot. ;D They had frigging better vote no, or we frigging KNOW THEY ARE CORRUPT. >O

CORRUPT LITTLE -Censored by SOPA-

[Sliver]

I'm not a american but I'm pretty sure that if this passes that it will still afect me in many ways.Ex:closing down Youtube and RuneHQ Sopa/Pipa better not pass!

[Paintball]

Whats funny is how it would have been implemented. The bill would block DNS servers so you couldn't go to http://www.runehq.com. You could still access the IP of the server though (65.248.17.254 looks like that, but those are random numbers)

[Ben]

Whats funny is how it would have been implemented. The bill would block DNS servers so you couldn't go to http://www.runehq.com. You could still access the IP of the server though (65.248.17.254 looks like that, but those are random numbers)

You are indeed correct. It would also "break" the way in which the DNS system is designed as it wouldn't be returning an "authoritive" response from the DNS when removed. DNS is designed with basic return data that your computer checks against the something to determine if the DNS response is real or fake (very basic but DNSSEC is building upon this).
I've just read an article on torrentfreak about EMIs VP saying he is against it and he mirrors my arguments as to the way forward with regards to piracy. I'll also try to refind the "The Sims 3 - Encouraged to leaked" link.
http://torrentfreak....e-issue-120125/
http://www.industrygamers.com/news/ea-views-sims-3-leak-as-demo-program/

[Varunky]

The dumbest thing is that when the bills were shelved the movie industry basically admitted to blackmailing and corruption of the government by saying that if the bills weren't passed they would be removing their monetary support from some of the biggest democrats..

[Seinami]

LAwlll...

[Kunio]

HEHAHAHA! dumb old Sopa and Pipa.. denied!