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    Cool So are we shutting down CD for the anti-SOPA protest movement?

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...usaolp00000009

    WASHINGTON -- Google will join thousands of tech activists, entrepreneurs and corporations on Wednesday in protesting the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act, a controversial bill that has generated national outrage among Internet experts.
    On Wednesday, more than 7,000 websites are expected to voluntarily "go dark," by blocking access to their content to protest the bill, according to organizers of SOPAStrike.com. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid plans to bring the measure to a vote next week. Some of the biggest names on the Internet plan to participate in the blackout, including Wikipedia, Mozilla, Reddit and WordPress. On Tuesday, Google stopped short of vowing to take down its popular search engine, but said it would change its home page to show solidarity with protesters.
    "Like many businesses, entrepreneurs and web users, we oppose these bills because there are smart, targeted ways to shut down foreign rogue websites without asking American companies to censor the Internet," said a Google spokeswoman in a written statement provided to HuffPost. "So tomorrow we will be joining many other tech companies to highlight this issue on our U.S. home page."
    While Hollywood movie studios and major record labels have lauded the bill as a robust effort to crack down on online copyright violations, Internet experts maintain that the tools proposed for the legislation would hamper efforts to improve online security and threaten the basic functioning of the Internet.
    Tech companies have been raising objections to the bill since the Senate version, Protect IP, was introduced last spring. Free speech experts also argue that the measure's basic anti-piracy tool would risk seriously violating the First Amendment in allowing the government and private companies to shut down entire websites accused of piracy without a trial or even a traditional court hearing.
    In addition to the Web protests, thousands of New York City tech activists and entrepreneurs are preparing for a Wednesday protest outside the Manhattan offices of Sens. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Kristin Gillibrand (D-N.Y.). Both Schumer and Gillibrand formally support Protect IP. Increasingly in recent years the Big Apple has become an active hub for tech firms, with many new companies and their venture capital supporters locating there rather than Silicon Valley.
    The anti-SOPA event is being organized NY Tech Meetup, a trade group representing all aspects of the New York technology community. The group is expecting more than 1,500 members and speakers from leading tech companies to show up at the Wednesday protest, from 12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m, at the senators' Manhattan offices, at 780 Third Ave.
    "We're gonna have people get on a soapbox with a bullhorn," NY Tech Meetup Chairman Andrew Rasiej told HuffPost. "We're not in a theater; we're in the street protesting."
    The White House announced on Saturday its formal opposition to SOPA and Protect IP, setting off a legislative scramble on Capitol Hill as lawmakers on both sides of the issue sought to shore up support ahead of the Senate vote.

    I just want to know so I don't check this website every 5 minutes tomorrow thinking OHGOD DAITENGU SAT ON THE SERVER AGAIN. Please give us a heads up so I know I can tell my children and their children and their children that I was there. I was there that day when the internet blacked out.
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    Chuck Schumer can suck my balls.

    If this passes, I predict no second term for Obama. Not that this is the ONLY thing that could bring him down (and seriously, the Reps are flailing like a kid without waterwings in the deep end) but hey, he does have the final say. Veto power, bitch.

    This is a huge shitcan of a bill.

    I'm gonna kick the door to the Senate down and chop that motherfuckin' desk in half BYYAAAHH
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    I'm handing out SOPA and PIPA fact sheets tomorrow at school. It's fucking amazing how many IT students don't know shit about these bills.

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    If CD shut down in protest no one would know it was for protest, and only like 20 people on da earf' would even notice.
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    Quote Originally Posted by gina View Post
    Chuck Schumer can suck my balls.

    If this passes, I predict no second term for Obama. Not that this is the ONLY thing that could bring him down (and seriously, the Reps are flailing like a kid without waterwings in the deep end) but hey, he does have the final say. Veto power, bitch.

    This is a huge shitcan of a bill.

    I'm gonna kick the door to the Senate down and chop that motherfuckin' desk in half BYYAAAHH
    i like how this says:

    "you can make it legal to arrest me for no reason for as long as you want, but if you touch my internet, so help me god..."
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    yeah obviously we'd all suck our alternate universe dicks there was never any question about that
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    I don't know if Obama did anything to make that happen, but I do know that he didn't do anything to stop me from blaming him.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mr. E View Post
    If CD shut down in protest no one would know it was for protest, and only like 20 people on da earf' would even notice.
    this.

    I honestly thought about it, but then realized that all of you guys are already savvy internet users and I don't need to raise awareness among you.

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    look, i feel that gays should be allowed to marry as much as the next guy, but i don't see how shutting down websites helps the cause
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    fuck yes.

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    raises awareness
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    i dont think skill is a genre of game lol
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    of course it is you have seen the crystal maze havnt you?
    he says what next a skill physical mental?


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    Can someone just please explain to me why the costs of the entertainment industry's antiquated business model should be passed along to internet providers? This is just a new attempt to (ultimately) stick it to the consumers who aren't interested in their products any longer. If blatant price discrimination weren't common practice in the industry, there wouldn't be such an incentive to cheat them so blatantly. Dedicated streaming services like Hulu have proved that the television model can adapt and survive in a digital age (and practically in real time, to boot); I don't understand why the MPAA and RIAA can't be bothered to also adapt.

    And if they are spending too much money to make products that no one wants to pay for... Hollywood can't take a pay cut like the rest of us? Fuck the actors' and writers' unions and fuck LA.

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    Also, just to be clear, I don't take pay cuts, but then again I am a part of a product that people actually want to pay for.

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    ITT atmosfear confuses hollywood with the real world.

    Atmosdear, you too would expect ever increasing wages if your face was being filled with sausage poison.
    YO HO YO HO

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    i'm not going to let these holly-weirdos tread on me!

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    atmosfear did you suck gina's dick
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    fuck yes.

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    You can't really swim in the ocean without catching Hepatitis, fuck LA
    lik dis if u cry evertim
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    yes
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    Quote Originally Posted by Atmoscheer View Post
    Also, just to be clear, I don't take pay cuts, but then again I am a part of a product that people actually want to pay for.
    Having a valuable and rare skill set means no pay cuts. Huzzah!
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    i can't tell if we're in the throes of a troll toll (to get into the boy's soul) or if there's just one more big floppy douchebag pussywhipped idiot walkin around out there

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