Stop Online Piracy Act - Protect IP Act

[real_india]

funny enough it's the democrats that are still supporting SOPA while republicans are getting against it.



That's my whole point, in 2012 its all about the elections. The democrats don't think they can hold the white house as incumbents without the money of the lobbyists, thanks largely to Obama's not so good track record.

Republicans on the other hand, might have started seeing the mood on the street as they say.

 

[Sushubh]

SOPA scrapped for now!

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PROTECT IP Act is postponed too

 

[Jaymin]

Kya baat hai! No matter how small, a win is still a win! Atleast it has been averted for the time being.Btw, no likes for this news till now? I m the first one to like it!

 

[Sushubh]

best news i heard today... Y Combinator wants to fund startups that would disrupt the traditional media companies (Hollywood in specific).

YCRFS 9: Kill Hollywood

 

[IndianMascot]

Kya baat hai! No matter how small, a win is still a win! Atleast it has been averted for the time being.

Btw, no likes for this news till now? I m the first one to like it!


Its not small win bro, it had been postponed indefinitely :applause::applause:

 

[Jaymin]

But a dormant volcano still has good chances to become active again!

 

[Sushubh]

But just as the celebrations began over the saving of Internet Freedom, something else happened: the U.S. Justice Department not only indicted the owners of one of the world’s largest websites, the file-sharing site link-removed, but also seized and shut down that site, and also seized or froze millions of dollars of its assets — all based on the unproved accusations, set forth in an indictment, that the site deliberately aided copyright infringement.

In other words, many SOPA opponents were confused and even shocked when they learned that the very power they feared the most in that bill — the power of the U.S. Government to seize and shut down websites based solely on accusations, with no trial — is a power the U.S. Government already possesses and, obviously, is willing and able to exercise even against the world’s largest sites (they have this power thanks to the the 2008 PRO-IP Act pushed by the same industry servants in Congress behind SOPA as well as by forfeiture laws used to seize the property of accused-but-not-convicted drug dealers).

Two lessons from the link-removed seizure — www.salon.com — Readability

 

[Jaymin]

So as feared, is this the rise of fresh Volcanic ashes from the apparently dormant volcano?

 

[Sushubh]

and we thought that SOPA was never passed.

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[Bobbyguitarist]

OMFG! this is not good.