Wikipedia Goes Dark to Protest Obama’s Web Piracy Bills

LL,

Obama and his administration came out against this in official statements. This was not endorsed by or created by the Obama administration…

Come on SR at least try and research these stories…

NB shut her site down for the business day…

Trust and believe sir i am far from being condition i usually get my new from the foriegn press because they tend to be way more harsh on us and have opinion from outside the US media machine. So please keep your genrealizations to a minimum. The truth is you have to understand how the game is played in order to see why it is played Obama did his part and has helped the average man more than Bush and actaully more the Clinton who actually set this economic downfall into play.

So with all of that said I stan for Obama because at least he is up front about what he has to do to get re-elected and if he does then watch how he acts. Gonna be a rough one for anybody who goes against him with nothing to lose.

Creamy, A.K.A ChicNiccAalien says:

It’s true it’s not his his bill but it dont mean he wont sign it REAL TALK, they are playing cat and mouse with you people, I love the president but I have to keep it real. he oppose NDAA but still signed it. IJS. #nohate
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He opposed some of the admendments to it not the bill as a whole.

MsOnederful says:

Bottom line is this
There’s no way to stop piracy through legislation. Piracy is a social problem caused by people not seeing the value in paying for the content that they consume. Even if you miraculously eliminated all piracy through some law, those people (most of us of course) would just move on to consuming something else that’s free rather than pay for the content. There will always be free stuff out there to consume.

More importantly, there’s no way to legislate behavior on the Internet. If there were, we wouldn’t have trolling, we wouldn’t have kids harassing each other to the point of suicide on Facebook, and we wouldn’t have websites dedicated to pirating movies and software. All that legislation can do is impose additional burdens on legitimate companies and individuals doing legitimate things with the Internet. It can’t make what is already illegal more illegal in any useful way.

More to the point, what SOPA and PIPA do is make it illegal for CNN, Sandrarose, TMZ and others to publish any post mentioning, for example, that you can download movie torrents from thepiratebsomethingsomething DOT org. (Note that I did not name the actual web site just the first two words and third words beginning letter, Don’t want to get Auntie in trouble) Any who Why would that be illegal? Because if you didn’t know about TPB, now you do, and now you know where you can get pirated downloads of lots of current movies for free. So if this posts get approved by sandrarose, by posting my post right now, it would be violating SOPA/PIPA by facilitating piracy. By making such posts illegal, SOPA/PIPA makes it illegal not just to pirate content or make pirated content available, but also to engage in any sort of useful discussion of piracy or piracy-related sites for any purposes, including academic research, news and information, etc. It’s a very serious threat to free speech.

The bill’s goals, simply put, are absolutely nuts. And more importantly, within a day of the passage of a bill like this, the actual pirates will have already completely worked around it through technological measures. As John Gilmore put it, “The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.” What this means that there is no way to usefully legislate any sort of censorship on the Internet. It can’t be done. It is technologically completely impossible, by design. Anyone who claims otherwise is trying to pull a fast one. This Law HOPEFULLY will not see the light of DAY!

Msone (censored)

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Vey well said.