STOP SOPA NOW!

[Hellspawn28]

No point on putting on hold since so many people are against. I guess the supporters don't know when to give up when they are out number?

[Bussani]

Man, these senators are such babies. First they say places like Wikipedia are "abusing their power" by doing a blackout/protest and then they act all begrudged that they have to put the bills on hold and make passive aggressive remarks like, "Now pirates in other countries are laughing because we don't even think it's worth discussing how to stop them."

You have to laugh at them. They were put there to represent the people and be their voice, and now they're whining because Wikipedia and others got the people to vocalize their opinion, which just happens to go against their wishes. Poor them. They're not used to not getting their own way.

Megaupload cost them 500,000,000? If we could actually get people to do it, we could cost them much more without doing anything illegal.

Taking that into consideration, I still can't understand why they continue to put so much effort into fighting piracy this way instead of embracing what the internet can do. Can you imagine how much money they'd make if they started their own online distribution system--something like Netflix, maybe--to give an alternative to piracy? All of that sweet, sweet Megaupload money could be theirs for the taking with a little innovation.

[Fox666]

The problem with new technologies is that the market leaders may loose their position. Money can be made out of it, but the ones who have money today probably won't.

You have to laugh at them. They were put there to represent the people and be their voice, and now they're whining because Wikipedia and others got the people to vocalize their opinion, which just happens to go against their wishes. Poor them. They're not used to not getting their own way.

They are supposed to be represent people, but apparently they are far from it.

[SRB2Unleashed]

Now that we won...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNuXQucG ... ture=inbox

[Big Momma]

SOPA was just a ploy by Obama, anyway. So that he can win over votes by going against it.

[/non-db-related conspiracy]

[cloud1414]

We had 13 million people protesting Sopa and Pipa, it will never pass. Also, MU will return. Its just like when The Pirate Bay got canned, they came back. Also it looks like MU is back anyways, megavideo.bz is the new rumored site of the new Mega Upload. Now I dont know if the site is real, but I'm just letting everyone know what I just found out. Yeah Sopa got pushed back again another month, but it will just keep getting pushed back until it looses everyone and dies out.

[Big Momma]

We had 13 million people protesting Sopa and Pipa, it will never pass. Also, MU will return. Its just like when The Pirate Bay got canned, they came back. Also it looks like MU is back anyways, megavideo.bz is the new rumored site of the new Mega Upload. Now I dont know if the site is real, but I'm just letting everyone know what I just found out. Yeah Sopa got pushed back again another month, but it will just keep getting pushed back until it looses everyone and dies out.

Megaupload.bz is absolutely fake. It was set up by anonymous and apparently whoever clicks it will automatically DDoS some gov't site.

[samuraix123]

Am I at risk of getting caught sense I have downloaded stuff from MegaUpload?

[jjgp1112]

SOPA's Dead! Well, at least that's what twitter's saying.

[TheBlackPaladin]

Am I at risk of getting caught sense I have downloaded stuff from MegaUpload?

Anybody who ever downloads anything like that is at risk. 99% of the time, however, the risk is borderline-nonexistent.

[samuraix123]

Well that's a breath of fresh air I will never download again. But i must say i support anonymous. they sound like good people?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Advl-DXLAw

[Hellspawn28]

It looks like SOPA is now officially dead. We all did it and to think the SOPA supporters where like "We are just no faces, they are not going to care about us!".

[TheBlackPaladin]

SOPA is not dead. Significantly wounded to the point where we won't have to worry about it for a while? Sure. The main sponsor has said, however, that he intends to "re-address" the bill. That's another way of saying that he's going to hire better lawyers to write a more crafty version of the bill that does the exact same things as SOPA, but with sneakier legal language so that it doesn't cause quite as big a fuss.

Heh...so to put this in DBZ terms...we, the users of the internet, all got together and fired a salvo of ki blasts at SOPA, creating a big cloud of black smoke around it. We think we have defeated it, and yet....I can still sense its power level.....

[cloud1414]

SOPA is not dead. Significantly wounded to the point where we won't have to worry about it for a while? Sure. The main sponsor has said, however, that he intends to "re-address" the bill. That's another way of saying that he's going to hire better lawyers to write a more crafty version of the bill that does the exact same things as SOPA, but with sneakier legal language so that it doesn't cause quite as big a fuss.

Heh...so to put this in DBZ terms...we, the users of the internet, all got together and fired a salvo of ki blasts at SOPA, creating a big cloud of black smoke around it. We think we have defeated it, and yet....I can still sense its power level.....

Nicely put, but its just going to fail time and time again. We had over 13 million people against it. It will never pass. They can try and try as much as they want, they will fail.

[Attitudefan]

Heh...so to put this in DBZ terms...we, the users of the internet, all got together and fired a salvo of ki blasts at SOPA, creating a big cloud of black smoke around it. We think we have defeated it, and yet....I can still sense its power level.....

Remember, he comes back with different looks.

[Bussani]

Well, it could come back as something that doesn't put the fundamental nature of the internet at risk, hurt new start-ups, and shut down sites for things their users do. That's what they should be doing if they go back to square one. But...well...I'll have to see it to believe it.

[cloud1414]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tD1yaE0 ... ture=share
Well this isnt good.

[samuraix123]

I just watched that a little while ago. That's why i got worried but I thought about it. Would the government really try to press charges against anyone and everyone. That has ever used Megaupload? I defiantly think not. there would be thousands of thousands of people being arrested and no one could pay the fine. there would be chaos everywhere. now I'll leave you with a south park funny.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCKtfdVqK7c

[cloud1414]

I just watched that a little while ago. That's why i got worried but I thought about it. Would the government really try to press charges against anyone and everyone. That has ever used Megaupload? I defiantly think not. there would be thousands of thousands of people being arrested and no one could pay the fine. there would be chaos everywhere. now I'll leave you with a south park funny.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCKtfdVqK7c

Yeah I know, but you never know what steps they will take. I guess we will just wait and see how this goes.

[samuraix123]

Yeah...let's just hope we finely get passed all this. Also! Do these people really think they are going to stop piracy? I mean really? I have seen things come and go and piracy has always remained and always will.