There's always ways around everything.

>>529
I hope so. The internet is my life, so ruining that would be like killing me

Highly doubt this or any other bill of its kind will affect us in any way. You'll always be able to use IRC to get anime or virtually anything else you need (and the government won't fuck with IRC, that's where all the hackers hang out).

America think it owns the Internet? Well, I guess that's reasonable. Al Gore invented it after all.

>>533
Well they own the internet inside America, duh! Soon we're going to have internet police that patrol the American internet boarder and deport any illegal content back to where it came from. More leeway will be given to the Canadian internet immigrants because we like them more.

>U.S. agencies and officials would get new powers to go after foreign websites that sell counterfeit goods and pirated music, movies and books under a bill passed on Thursday by the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Most websites I go to don't charge you for downloading shit.

>The bill was modified to address some concerns that critics raised. One provision was struck out that would have allowed the Justice Department to publish a "blacklist" of domain names that provide access to websites touting counterfeit or pirated goods, even if it did not seek a court order against them.

I guess the change means they need a court order, but if they're just blacklisting domain names prepare you ping cannons and get the IP addresses of sites you download from, though I doubt they made such a obvious mistake.


If something does happen where downloading shit is impossible I'll probably just kill myself, as I only live for the entertainment aspect and can't keep up with the amount of shit I go through financially, I buy the stuff I *really* like and don't bother buying average junk.

Fuck ACTA was just a ploy, should have payed more attention to demonoids warning about this.

>>535

No edit button so I'll double post

http://torrentfreak.com/senate-passes-bill-to-quash-pirate-websites-101118/

>If signed into law, the ‘Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act’ (COICA) would allow the Department of Justice to file a civil lawsuit against the domain owners. If the courts then decide that a site is indeed promoting copyright infringement, the DOJ can order the domain registrar to take the domain offline. The bill is not limited to domestics offenders, but also allows the DOJ to target foreign domain owners.

TorrentFreak have proven to me to be a reliable source thus far, so if this is true I was correct, the IP Should still be there, so likely this will end up with a minor inconvinience on us, instead of typing something like thepiratebay.org we'll have to type 194.71.107.15 instead. If, for some reason, I am wrong on this correct me as I don't know much about the way domains and the like work.

somehow i doubt that pirating media will ever be made impossible

>>535
>If something does happen where downloading shit is impossible I'll probably just kill myself

Same. I have nothing else in my life that keeps me going

>>536
>The bill is not limited to domestics offenders, but also allows the DOJ to target foreign domain owners

>>537

wait till they start hiring "cyberpolice". Cyberbuling and the like is getting blown way out of proportion so they can. Just like the "losses" from piracy, theres really not that much from my research, I think they're afraid artists will grow a brain and sell thier own music.

Well that bill has been shot down now, and will not resurface for a while (source is an email)


Yesterday the Senate Judiciary Committee voted unanimously to send the Internet blacklist bill to the full Senate, but it was quickly stopped by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) who denounced it as "a bunker-buster cluster bomb" aimed at the Internet and pledged to "do everything I can to take the necessary steps to stop it from passing the U.S. Senate."

Wyden's opposition practically guarantees the bill is dead this year -- and next year the new Congress will have to reintroduce the bill and start all over again. But even that might not happen: Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Hollywood's own senator, told the committee that even she was uncomfortable with the Internet censorship portion of the bill and hoped it could be removed when they took it up again next year!

This is incredible -- and all thanks to you. Just a month ago, the Senate was planning to pass this bill unanimously; now even the senator from Hollywood is backing away from it. But this fight is far from over -- next year, there's going to be hearings, negotiations, and even more crucial votes. We need to be there, continuing to fight.

Can you chip in a couple bucks so we can keep our lobbyist in DC?

We're doing everything we can: working with key staffers to remove the most egregious parts of the bill, lobbying more members of Congress to speak out against this bill, and insisting on hearings so the whole Senate can learn about how dangerous this is. And, of course, we'll keep working with you to make sure more people hear about this bill and tell their senators.

>>545
A bunch of lemmings; how boring. Oh well, hooray for piracy.

>>545
California =/= Hollywood, but okay, yeah. This is good news.

Hopefully we can continue to stave off this kind of legislation. Congress would take a giant shit all over our God-given rights if they had half a chance. Thankfully, we've still got a few powerful politicians left who stand for something other than the financial interests of their corporate backers.

>>545
They did it anyway

http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/27/us-government-seizes-domain-names-claims-to-have-a-warrant/


What a wonderful world we live in