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Allo Allo Allo,
Wow, it's been such a long time since I last posted onto my LJ. 0 posts in 2011. My laziness has been really holding me back. Many things happened last year, but no note of it in my LJ. I won't promise that I will write more. I never wrote in it a lot in the first place. I won't forget it this time though.
I'm making this first post in the new year to note a very happy news. I've been hiding under a rock, so I didn't realize that two bills, SOPA and PIPA, were being put through. I only heard about it the day before and looked into what they were about. I got scared and real nervous about it passing. The point of them aren't bad. Fighting against piracy is a good thing, but they way they're going about it in a bad way. These two bills actually could be used to attack libraries! As soon as I could I sent out an email against it. Today, Congress dropped those two bills. Congratulations, everyone!
Piracy is bad. No matter what excuse, but I can't help be an advocate for it. Sort of. I see the harm in illegally downloading movies that came out and are in print. I'm against that. I don't see the harm in downloading an out of print movie, that no one Hollywood cares or even remembers about.
I just downloaded the movie Lili. It stars Leslie Carson and came out in 1953. You can't really buy this movie. It's out of print. The only way to buy this is if you're willing to spend about $200 on Amazon.com or Ebay. None of that $200 is going to the ones who made the movie. It's pure profit for the person selling the movie. Situations like this, I just don't see the harm and are for piracy.
Below are the links that explain PIPA and SOPA. I didn't explain those two bills in my post, because I would have done a terrible job. Many others did a better job at it.
http://mashable.com/2012/01/17/sopa-dangerous-opinion/
http://www.sopastrike.com/
http://www.pcworld.com/article/248298/sopa_and_pipa_just_the_facts.html
Kurai
Wow, it's been such a long time since I last posted onto my LJ. 0 posts in 2011. My laziness has been really holding me back. Many things happened last year, but no note of it in my LJ. I won't promise that I will write more. I never wrote in it a lot in the first place. I won't forget it this time though.
I'm making this first post in the new year to note a very happy news. I've been hiding under a rock, so I didn't realize that two bills, SOPA and PIPA, were being put through. I only heard about it the day before and looked into what they were about. I got scared and real nervous about it passing. The point of them aren't bad. Fighting against piracy is a good thing, but they way they're going about it in a bad way. These two bills actually could be used to attack libraries! As soon as I could I sent out an email against it. Today, Congress dropped those two bills. Congratulations, everyone!
Piracy is bad. No matter what excuse, but I can't help be an advocate for it. Sort of. I see the harm in illegally downloading movies that came out and are in print. I'm against that. I don't see the harm in downloading an out of print movie, that no one Hollywood cares or even remembers about.
I just downloaded the movie Lili. It stars Leslie Carson and came out in 1953. You can't really buy this movie. It's out of print. The only way to buy this is if you're willing to spend about $200 on Amazon.com or Ebay. None of that $200 is going to the ones who made the movie. It's pure profit for the person selling the movie. Situations like this, I just don't see the harm and are for piracy.
Below are the links that explain PIPA and SOPA. I didn't explain those two bills in my post, because I would have done a terrible job. Many others did a better job at it.
http://mashable.com/2012/01/17/sopa-dangerous-opinion/
http://www.sopastrike.com/
http://www.pcworld.com/article/248298/sopa_and_pipa_just_the_facts.html
Kurai