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Megaupload Shut Down by US Government

Started by Eternal248, January 19, 2012, 05:20:28 pm

Eternal

  • Modding version: PSX & WotL
"You, no less human than we? Ha! Now there's a beastly thought. You've been less than we from the moment your baseborn father fell upon your mother in whatever gutter saw you sired! You've been chattel since you came into the world drenched in common blood!"
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GeneralStrife

don't even need sopa, fucking dictator goverment

Dome


"Be wise today so you don't cry tomorrow"

Lijj

One thing you guys can do is take part in the flooding of your Congressman's email complaining about it.
Our congressman's is pretty cool, he even sent me a personal email one time assuring me that he'd never vote against internet freedom. He also strange and wears a bow-tie:


congress quicklink:
http://americancensorship.org/
here's a link for any international people concerned:
http://americancensorship.org/modal/state-dept-petition/index.html
  • Modding version: PSX

Kaijyuu

Should've targeted rapidshare. They suck (more).

But yes, this places a disturbing precedent. File sharing is not illegal. You don't go after your local department of transportation when someone has drugs in their car.

"But the roads enabled them!"
  • Modding version: PSX

Pickle Girl Fanboy

So if I sell people securities that I know are bad, and then bet that those securities will become worthless, I get a bailout.  But if I violate copyright, then the full might of the Justice Department will fall on me.

If anyone had any doubts, you now know who our gov't works for.

MountainDew~

  • Modding version: Other/Unknown
  • Discord username: Holographic #1363

Kokojo

I keep leaving, I keep coming back. Boomerang boy.

shoruke

Did anybody else notice that that article said MegaUpload was a criminal organization?
No, they're not a free service with abuse potential,
THEY ARE THE FUCKING INTERNET MAFIA.

Pickle Girl Fanboy

Quote from: shoruke on January 24, 2012, 10:55:48 am
Did anybody else notice that that article said MegaUpload was a criminal organization?
No, they're not a free service with abuse potential,
THEY ARE THE FUCKING INTERNET MAFIA.

Yeah, and NAPSTER  BAD!

st4rw4k3r

As you guys might have noticed, I was talking about Anon taking action on this shit.
Here if you want the logs, but beware its long.

DaveSW

The war on drugs, the patriot act, and now this. 
First it became illegal to carry large sums of cash because you were clearly going to buy drugs with it.
Then it became illegal to be a Muslim because you clearly hate America for our freedom.
Now it is illegal to share any files with anyone because you clearly are only interested in sending other people CP and government secrets.

The worst part is that in the US, file sharing actually increases the sales of whatever the product is, except for porn and music cds.  It is great advertisement, and more often than not, people who share files are sharing things that they would never have bought in the first place.
I am awesome.

skiploom188

Noooo! One of my download sources, dead!
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GeneralStrife

but but obama would never strip more of our freedoms!!

ahahahaha

Pickle Girl Fanboy

January 25, 2012, 06:37:07 pm #14 Last Edit: January 25, 2012, 06:44:25 pm by Pickle Girl Fanboy
Congress did this.  Not Obama.  Obama actually threatened to veto it.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/jan/16/sopa-shelved-obama-piracy-legislation

Seriously GS, what is your problem?  Do you have any criticisms against Obama that are things he's actually done?  Or is there an Obama impersonator out doing these horrible things?

You can complain about the naivety, irrationality, and lack of common sense intrinsic to Democrats, but, unless you're willing to act better than the people you imagine (since your complaints are all about things that can't happen, like the president making laws) Democrats to be, don't talk.

GeneralStrife

oh darnit PGF, I was joking. I was just poking fun at the people who called obama the second coming of jesus in the form of a president. He has to cave to lobbyists and an incompetent, divided
congress as much as any other prez.
The only thing he has done that pissed me off is sign the ndaa.

Pickle Girl Fanboy

Dude, nobody thought he was the second coming of Black Jesus, but I personally know people who thought W was...
*looks around quickly*
*whispers*
the one.  You know dot dot dot question mark.

Seriously.  They thought Dubya was the second coming of Christ.  Seriously.

Kaijyuu

  • Modding version: PSX

Kokojo

I keep leaving, I keep coming back. Boomerang boy.