Good News For Now on the SOPA/PIPA Front

[dundadundun]

interesting, google still needs to do at least a 1 hr blackout like wiki did. And they should post THAT SPECIFIC VIDEO as the only thing you can do.

you didn't notice the black censored label on the home page? even an entire marketplace was out on our droid devices. word is spreading quick. legislation is going to move slow to compensate, i fear. then, just when most folks have forgotten or fizzled out, it will move like lightening.

 

[excuzzzeme]

Isn't that "business as usual?"

 

[Lab_Rat]

Looks like the blackouts and petitions were successful, at least temporarily: http://mashable.com/2012/01/20/sopa-is-dead-smith-pulls-bill/ This is a huge win for the common person over the entertainment industry! The show of force from normal people at least got congress to pay attention.

We will have to stay vigilant to keep bills like these from passing. The next way the (government will try to censor the internet and track people) RIAA and MPAA will likely try to get their special interests acts passed and ruin the internet is through this:
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics...-could-kill-internet-privacy-for-good/242853/

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/violetblue/how-the-new-8216protecting-children-bill-puts-you-at-risk/590

The bill itself: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:h.r.01981:

 

[Fractalis]

All I want is freedom

[video=youtube;5rAuicowWxY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rAuicowWxY&feature=channel_video_title[/video]

 

[dundadundun]

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The UK and 21 other European Union member states on Thursday signed an international copyright agreement treaty called Acta (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement),

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/jan/27/acta-protests-eu-states-sign-treaty

ACTA is an international trade agreement currently being negotiated by the European Union, the United States, Japan, Canada, South Korea, Australia as well as a few other countries, whose aim is to enforce copyright and tackle counterfeited goods (hence its acronym: Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement).

site might need an update ("currently being negotiated") - - IDK?
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http://www.stopacta.info/

.gov homepage where you can navigate easily to the text itself plus much more info on acta... http://www.ustr.gov/acta

Australia, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore and the United States signed the ACTA on 1 Oct 2011.)

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http://www.mofa.go.jp/policy/economy/i_property/acta1201.html

it's done... worldwide...