Things Aren't Going too Well for SOPA

[teh603]

Originally Posted by mr ploppy

Money trumps experts. Always has, always will.

Seems like money trumps everything but an angry mob these days, and there's precious few angry mobs.

[RainingLemur]

Originally Posted by teh603

Seems like money trumps everything but an angry mob these days, and there's precious few angry mobs.

With enough money, you can just buy an even BIGGER mob. A mob of pacifists who just want to calm everybody down... Like an army of Bob Ross clones painting happy little trees.

[mr ploppy]

Originally Posted by teh603

Seems like money trumps everything but an angry mob these days, and there's precious few angry mobs.

Money trumps angry mobs too.

http://www.leftfootforward.org/2011/...t-be-resisted/

[teh603]

Well, in that case we're starting to talk guerilla warfare. I just hope I get enough warning before people start tossing molotov cocktails, so I can get the hell outta town.

[Kevin8or]

Originally Posted by Ninjalawyer

I really don't understand how SOPA has made it this far

[xg4bx]

Originally Posted by Ninjalawyer

I really don't understand how SOPA has made it this far; experts have testified that it will significantly harm the internet as a whole and anyone reading it would probably find it repellent.

this is how-

http://reporting.sunlightfoundation....A-consponsors/

[xg4bx]

Report: Someone At The RIAA Downloaded $9 Million Worth Of Pirated Dexter Episodes

"The hallowed halls of the Recording Industry Association of America, where all music is bought at full price and never shared, lest people face violations of up to $150,000 per pirated item, has reportedly been infiltrated by ne'er-do-wells who think they can BitTorrent copyrighted material at work and not be caught.

According to the folks at TorrentFreak, a check of the RIAA's IP addresses on YouHaveDownloaded.com show that someone at the association actually downloaded a torrent with the entire first five seasons of Dexter. Sixty episodes at $150,000 per violation would equal $9 million."

http://consumerist.com/2011/12/repor...-episodes.html

[teh603]

Originally Posted by xg4bx

Report: Someone At The RIAA Downloaded $9 Million Worth Of Pirated Dexter Episodes

"The hallowed halls of the Recording Industry Association of America, where all music is bought at full price and never shared, lest people face violations of up to $150,000 per pirated item, has reportedly been infiltrated by ne'er-do-wells who think they can BitTorrent copyrighted material at work and not be caught.

According to the folks at TorrentFreak, a check of the RIAA's IP addresses on YouHaveDownloaded.com show that someone at the association actually downloaded a torrent with the entire first five seasons of Dexter. Sixty episodes at $150,000 per violation would equal $9 million."

http://consumerist.com/2011/12/repor...-episodes.html

Maybe they couldn't find a copy on DVD?

[sabredog]

Pot...Kettle...Black!

[hidari]

a good find.... This chasing of the copyrights reminds one of the attempts of making Alcohol illegal in countries where it had been legal for ages.... Iceland and the USA come to mind...

Originally Posted by xg4bx

i found this pretty funny-

Movie Studio Employees Are Pirating Lots Of Movies

"So, yeah, all those horrible nasty pirates that the MPAA is insisting are killing their record profits are apparently their own employees.

TorrentFreak, obviously not a fan of the Stop Online Piracy Act, decided to give Hollywood a taste of its own medicine. You see, some Russians put together a BitTorrent equivalent of WikiScan called YouHaveDownloaded.com that tells you exactly what an IP address has pulled off the rushing torrents of the Internet. So, all TorrentFreak did was find the IP address range of major companies and run them through YouHaveDownloaded’s tools.

Guess what they found!"

http://www.uproxx.com/technology/201...s+%28Uproxx%29



further detail-

https://torrentfreak.com/busted-bitt...nd-fox-111213/

[Ninjalawyer]

It's funny for the movie studios to get a bit of egg on their faces, but I just can't get that excited about it; so what if some of their employees are going on bit torrent during the day? The studios are made up of tons of people, some of whom are probably pedophiles or regularly taking horse tranquilizers to get through the day, does that mean anything for the studios as an organization?

[luqmaninbmore]

Oh how I miss Get Your War On...

[xg4bx]

(longish) video about the industry's double dealing and scamming i.e. disney branded file sharing services.

[sabredog]

Well, hypocrites deserve contempt.

[Shaggy]

Originally Posted by Ninjalawyer

Bills like SOPA are what happens when policy makers forget (or don't care) that copyright was always intended as a careful balance between the rights of the public and the rights of content creators.

They've been paid to forget. The content industry has already bought SOPA, the rest is just for show.