http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/English_Wikipedia_anti-SOPA_blackout
fair play tbh :hug:
I don't actually see how this will help? It seems like cutting your nose off to spite your face to me?
To raise awareness I reckon, this is a big deal tbh, if this kind of crap gets put into place it'll be a snowball effect to other countries :thumbdown:
Quote from: Clock'd 0Ne on January 17, 2012, 11:03:51 AM
I don't actually see how this will help? It seems like cutting your nose off to spite your face to me?
The sites that are going to go offline are the sites that would be taken offline if SOPA came into effect, or forced to go offline while they would kill all essence of the website and for it to be just, well nothing really.
SOPA is like dropping a nuke to kill some bugs in street basically. Very OTT.
Getting as many big sites which would have to go down or change to be offline for a day will highlight the impact SOPA would have.
Company layers who have certain deals already with say youtube where they can take videos down themselves under certain conditions and they have similar things with other sites to not sue the site or try and take it offline. They abuse this daily and the issues sites and these guys have I can imagine are weekly discussions, threats, anger, bumping heads... and more.
SOPA would make it not a web for you me and the people that make interesting and creative websites but one that is in control of corporates and layers. The Murdoch's are all for SOPA because it means they will have some control in the net.
SOPA is more then trying to stop power. It is the corporations who just about ALL were and in some ways still are SOOOO SLOW to even just get the internet and slow to embrace what it can do for their company and people who view say their shows, movies, listen to their music or use their services online they are loosing money daily not to just piracy (which actually is a small percentage of their losses) but to the sheer fact that other people have come up with things better, doing things better, offering better services then they are and offer better quality then they are.
Rather then embracing these companies, working with them or buying them for what they have produced and pumping money into them, most just see them as a threat and try anything to shut them down but in turn launch their own service and be half assed about it, require you to pay more for it and lock it down in crazy ways etc to just make it worse then other offerings and then stifle the things that are good simply because its not theirs.
In terms of gaming and technology itself, the companies there have embraced each other foremost and communicate to innovate, work together etc. These companies and creative start ups are what drive the internet and the way you use it to interact with software, services, games etc.
Pretty much most of the Corporate world Just do not get it but they are the ones that drive News & Media out there.
Newspapers and like are on the ropes and those companies struggling because they were again slow to react to what the internet is, Them trying to make you pay so you can read news on their website etc for example just shows how much they do not get it.
Piracy is not on, and there are people out there that do it because they simply do not want to pay for anything, there are plenty of people who do this though to get the content they want with less hassle and often better quality then the official channels offer. They blame Piracy way to much for their woes, and wont admit their actual losses are more to do with their failings then anything else.
Thanks for taking the time to explain it to me, I wasn't that clued up. Makes perfect sense now :)
It's quite a few high profile siites, not all are blanking their pages mind, facebook just put their objectional opinion up.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/01/why-weve-censored-wired-com/
One key thing is it is not just about SOPA called PIPA, There is another bill which is basically the same thing that also needs to be stopped.
As the smart buggers do they create two bills, one the more public, the other under the carpet as much as possible. The main vocal one may get shot down but then they try and pass the other under the radar that does the same thing.
This is an awesome overview, it is a few mins long but watch it, it shows just how nuts this is.
I love this one because you think - god thats bad hey, but then he does a great job of showing how worse it gets.
In related news Megaupload has been shutdown.
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Megaupload, one of the internet's largest file-sharing sites, has been shut down by officials in the US.
The site's founders have been charged with violating piracy laws.
Federal prosecutors have accused it of costing copyright holders more than $500m (£320m) in lost revenue. The firm says it was diligent in responding to complaints about pirated material.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16642369