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And so it begins, and SOPA/PIPA hasn't even been voted on yet.
For the linkophobic, basically Megaupload got shut down over a few users who pirated copyright material. Now, while I'm not at all against enforcing copyright laws in principle, I do object to the idea in how entertainment moguls want to enforce such infringements by strong-arming sites ( Read more... )
For the linkophobic, basically Megaupload got shut down over a few users who pirated copyright material. Now, while I'm not at all against enforcing copyright laws in principle, I do object to the idea in how entertainment moguls want to enforce such infringements by strong-arming sites ( Read more... )
I also saw a good idea being passed around - a boycott for the entire month of March. No consuming their products at all, not even illegally. No buying DVDs or going to movies, no buying music, no books even. Which I'm cool with the books thing - we have a really awesome used bookstore nearby, and also hey - libraries. Also already having hundreds of books in the house, lalalala. ;) Actually, looking around - I bet we can claim at least a thousand.
We don't need them anymore. Which of course that's why they're trying to crush the internet. They want to take down and imprison the competition and force us to consume their less than lowest common denominator crap. LOL free market. But yeah - I can find all the good music and writing and movies I want on the internet, created by people just like me, and much better than anything produced by a giant corporation that is absolutely unwilling to take any sort of creative risk and entirely driven by profit.
They are dinosaurs. We're mammals. They'll fight to survive, but in the end we'll win. Because we can adapt to change, and that's what survival of the fittest really means. Not the survival of the strongest and richest and most psychopathic, but the survival of the ones who can adapt to changing conditions.
Oh yes, thank you for the reminder. Tedious as it may be, I do need to copy and paste Valley into Liquid Story Binder in case WordPress gets taken down (and get the Chrome anti-SOPA add-on for if it's blocked). I still have all the pics on my hard drive, so that's good. At least until they come for my computer.
Today was just all sorts of epic, with Anonymous DDoS'ing everyone, and then I heard shit got really real at UC Davis again.
I think they've finally landed on the one thing to get people to act. Sure, take away people's jobs and health care and education and rights and make their lives miserable, and they'll just accept it. Threaten their internet, though...
There are some nights when I can only get to sleep by thinking of the world as being safe in the hands of Anonymous. Godspeed, young pirates.
First they came for the Muslims, but I didn't say anything because I wasn't Muslim.
Then they came for the sick, but I didn't say anything because I didn't want to, even if I did get sick sometimes. Plus, did you see what they did to the Muslims? I don't wanna get waterboarded, man!
Then they came for the airline passengers, but I didn't say anything because hey, I can just drive everywhere and avoid getting sexually assaulted at the airport.
Then they came for the students, but whatever man, school is just stupid anyway.
Then they came for the internet, and I...
kicked their fascist asses!
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SOPA in the House, meanwhile has 108 opposed and 80 pro. And Speaker Boehner isn't going to bring it up until consensus can be had. Again, victory.
Of course, we shouldn't rest on our laurels just yet. There will be rewrites, and as we all know "Devil's in the details".
(By the way, should I mention that some of the supporters of these odious bills are themSELVES copyright thieves? Another case of "Why am I not surprised?")
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