As stated above, there is always to by pass a restriction.
Should this bill go through, i foresee a resurgence in the uses of modes and the bulletin boards that were in uses prior to the internet. Just imagine the effort it would take to control person to person data exchanges that are not transported on a network.
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Missing the point of the bill...
Posted by james.graham@...
18th Nov 2011
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Is it really about piracy ?
Posted by cptfreakout
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Internet Censorship
Posted by dwood005@...
18th Nov 2011
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Missing the point of the bill...
The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) has nothing to do with foreign companies. A foreign company (Chinese or any other) are not subject to American laws. The product example above (Headphonies) would already be protected by US patent and trademark laws which also have no teeth outside of our borders. SOPA is simply a way for MPAA and RIAA to offload the costs of protecting content and costs of prosecuting those who infringe their copyright to the government and by extension everyone in the USA. In effect you will be paying to prosecute yourselves and in combination with other laws, such as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, will almost eliminate you right to fair use of the content you purchase. Just do a search for MPAA Lawsuits and the plan becomes a little clearer. You can start here if you like: http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-20025357-261.html
Posted by james.graham@...
18th Nov 2011
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It's all connected
Even though the bill does not have to do with foreign countries, it does have to do with protecting pirated content, which is mostly pirated by foreign countries such as China and Russia and available in the US. These days we live in a global economy and not individual countries, its all connected. With information being accessible so easily, it makes it easy for foreign countries to penetrate the US and make fakes and pirated content easily available. Putting restrictions on US companies/sites will just add fear and will limit peoples freedom for content sharing, however I dont expect it to slow down pirated content or China fakes. People who want things for free or cheap, will figure out how to get it.
Posted by Celsyalife
18th Nov 2011
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Easily defeated?
I'm not advocating, I'm just asking if someone could set up a single internet IP address that then lists all the banned domain names and a direct IP address link to them?
I mean, if you want an asbestos attorney, you can go to http://76.12.9.124/ directly, right?
I thought DNS is just an interpreter for a bunch of characters being redirected to a string of numbers IP network address. Can't you bypass the characters and go direct to the numbers?
If true, this whole banning thing is like banning someone from a party by confiscating their name tag.
I mean, if you want an asbestos attorney, you can go to http://76.12.9.124/ directly, right?
I thought DNS is just an interpreter for a bunch of characters being redirected to a string of numbers IP network address. Can't you bypass the characters and go direct to the numbers?
If true, this whole banning thing is like banning someone from a party by confiscating their name tag.
Posted by doctordawg
19th Nov 2011
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Trying to stop piracy, eh?
China has something like this. You know, the "blocking websites" part? Yeah. Yet we still do a truckload of software/music/movie pirating. In fact you could say it's almost a lifestyle. Just ask the next guy, "Hey, how much is that game?" and he'd reply, "Oh, this one? I got it off some torrent," or "Oh, about 15. I got it from that guy from that so-and-so place."
Not gonna' work very well, this bill. It's gonna' stifle a lot of things, for sure; But piracy? Piracy is just gonna' expand and advance even more. The only way to combat it is to provide inimitable and satisfactory services/extra contents for your product. Like what Valve is doing, for example.
Not gonna' work very well, this bill. It's gonna' stifle a lot of things, for sure; But piracy? Piracy is just gonna' expand and advance even more. The only way to combat it is to provide inimitable and satisfactory services/extra contents for your product. Like what Valve is doing, for example.
Posted by pitch4k
19th Nov 2011
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The USA is now owned by China
Another wonderful restriction brought to you by the most regulations in the history of the country thanks Oboma.
So all someone has to do is be in Russia/India/China ect and the law is useless.
Another Brainiac idea...
So all someone has to do is be in Russia/India/China ect and the law is useless.
Another Brainiac idea...
Posted by open_source_user_01
22nd Nov 2011
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Actually that bill will give copyright holders, and not just the justice dept. the power to shut down web sites that they THINK may bBTW, e infringing. No proof required. Also, that bill was proposed by the GOP and not the Democrats. I'm quite sure though that some of them support it as well. BTW, that includes websites situated in other contries as long as they have a .com, or other tag that is controlled by the US suppliers.
Posted by Franciscus101
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Use the the laws against the makers.
Future trend: If the legislation turns into law, use it to show how Congress is violating copyright -- shut down their website. Use the law to show how RIAA violates copyright, shut down their website. Now there must be something we'd find in violation of the Republican's websites who pushed for this.
Another trend will see internet innovation moving out of America, just like the politically vile interests push out genetic research. There are better countries to work in now. Think about it.
Another trend will see internet innovation moving out of America, just like the politically vile interests push out genetic research. There are better countries to work in now. Think about it.
Posted by SmartPlanetORelse
22nd Nov 2011
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copyright theft
I designed and sold commercially, in 1987, a rotating Kite. Two Americans, one of them Chinese, got a Patent granted, in 2001 (I did not have a Patent) The kite sold in quite large quantities. I was advised by the American Patent Office, that I could fight the case, but it would probably not be worth the cost. I was of the understanding that if something was on public display, it could not be retrospectively patented. Am I wrong in thinking this?
Posted by kitemanmusic
23rd Nov 2011
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Is it really about piracy ?
Me thinks this is about information i general . The net has brought the world together from video to petitions and the way we are globally working together scares the powers that be .
This is just another corporate/government attempt at keeping us apart as a global citizenry and away from knowledge and information .
This is just another corporate/government attempt at keeping us apart as a global citizenry and away from knowledge and information .
Posted by cptfreakout
4th Jan 2012