Posts tagged sopa

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Posted 3 months ago
Piracy is the new radio, that’s how music gets around.
Neil Young (via eddplant)

(Source: allthingsd.com)

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Police: “Tumblr, you’re under arrest.”

blainelikesmasturbating:

sageoflogic:

miss-lizzifer:

oh-mystarisfading:

Whovians:

Sherlockians: 

Potterheads:

So what do I do if I’m all three?? Do I take hostage inside a police box and then use my phoenix to disapperate???

YES.

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are all the sharing sites really shutting down?

justawordshaker:

Because I can’t deal with this. And it’s not even that I download stuff that often. It’s the principle of the thing.

Companies are arguing that the entertainment industry is losing money due to pirating, right? But how do they know that? Have there been any actual studies done? Have they polled the people on the internet who would be able to answer best and give them the most conclusive data?

Of course they haven’t. If they had, they would find out that the reason they’re losing money is because everything is so fucking expensive and their biggest buyers are people who love television and movies and music but are not necessarily able to buy everything they want. 

If they had, they would find that the reason people don’t upload things for profit. They do it so that others can discover something they love. And the people who download it either decide it isn’t worth their time or they go out and buy it because they love it so much.

This whole thing is just absolutely ridiculous. Movie industries are complaining about box ticket numbers? Well, maybe if you didn’t put every fucking movie in 3D and make us pay twelve dollars to see it you would get more profit. Higher ticket prices = less consumers. The same can be applied to television or music. Everything is so expensive. That is why companies are losing money (if they even are, I have not seen conclusive evidence of this) - not because of pirating. They are losing money because people can’t afford to buy their products.

So instead of thinking things through and realising that there is a simple way to increase their profit and audience (i.e. lowering prices so it is more accessible to their targeted audience), they have decided that the best course of action is to attack and make themselves completely unaccessible by alienating the people that buy their products.

To put it simply, the entertainment industry does not understand this one, basic principle: a consumer is not going to spend egregious amounts of money on a product they do not already know they will enjoy. If they know they will enjoy it, they will gladly pay for the expensive product. But unless I know I am going to love a television show, I am not going to pay sixty dollars for it.

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Posted 3 months ago

Theoretically Brilliant: SOPA and PIPA are not dead.

sprackraptor:

dixiechicken:

Via vitaemachina on Twitter:

People NEED to stop saying PIPA and SOPA are dead. They are NOT DEAD. The mentality still exists in the MPAA, RIAA, and Congress via campaign contributions that even shelved, these bills are NOT DEAD. People who are standing around excited about SOPA/PIPA are…

You know how in a horror movie the bad guy gets shot or falls down stairs or something, and the good guy has a gun and she’s walking up to the bad guy thinking he’s dead, and she lowers the gun, and then he JUMPS UP WITH A KNIFE OMG;LIJASDLKFJASDF? It’s like that. DON’T ASSUME THEY’RE DEAD UNTIL YOU’VE SHOT THEM A FEW DOZEN TIMES. Head shot, people. Just because they fell down doesn’t mean they’re out of action. Confirm the kill.

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Posted 3 months ago

occupyonline:

Video explaining ACTA (of similar concern to people as SOPA/PIPA)

naturepunk:

For those who are confused, allow this video to clear things up a bit.

To take further action, visit: 

http://www.stopacta.org

(Source: healthyeyes)

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Posted 3 months ago
occupyonline: Behold! What the Stop SOPA Blackout managed to accomplish in 24 hours. Zoom

occupyonline:

Behold! What the Stop SOPA Blackout managed to accomplish in 24 hours.

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Posted 4 months ago

SOPA is dead.

vondell-swain:

good riddance

PIPA’s still a thing though

although I’m positive that wednesday’s massive web blackout is gonna bring a hell of a lot more public attention to the issue

by shoving it right into peoples’ faces so they can’t ignore it

(Source: flamboyantgentleman)

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Posted 4 months ago
epic4chan: geek feed: Dec 29th is “Leave Godaddy Day”, due to their support of SOPA. Unless Godaddy makes a bold and significant move to reverse their support for SOPA and to powerfully demonstrate their support for Internet freedom, I’ll be moving my approximately 50 domains and dedicated server.  Lifehacker has an article to help you make the move. GodaddyBoycott.org. Zoom

epic4chan:

geek feed:

Dec 29th is “Leave Godaddy Day”, due to their support of SOPA.

Unless Godaddy makes a bold and significant move to reverse their support for SOPA and to powerfully demonstrate their support for Internet freedom, I’ll be moving my approximately 50 domains and dedicated server. 

Lifehacker has an article to help you make the move.

GodaddyBoycott.org.

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Posted 4 months ago
shortformblog: Activist site of the night: Defendtheinter.net does a great job of using visuals to tell the story of how damaging SOPA could be to the Web. Great site. You gain much more from this one visual than you might from any long screed.  Zoom

shortformblog:

Activist site of the night: Defendtheinter.net does a great job of using visuals to tell the story of how damaging SOPA could be to the Web. Great site. You gain much more from this one visual than you might from any long screed. 

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Posted 4 months ago
knowyourmeme: If you haven’t heard GoDaddy has publicly supported SOPA.  Wanna transfer your domain over? Check out our entry! KYMdb - Protect IP Act / Stop Online Piracy Act

knowyourmeme:

If you haven’t heard GoDaddy has publicly supported SOPA.  Wanna transfer your domain over? Check out our entry!

KYMdb - Protect IP Act / Stop Online Piracy Act

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Posted 4 months ago

“Wow, I had no clue SOPA was such a bad idea…”

allisonweiss:

My friend Rosie Siman wrote this great piece to try and better explain SOPA to the rest of us. Don’t know what it is? Click here to read up and find out how this bill could destroy the internet as we know it.

Click here to sign the petition and SAVE THE INTERNET

PLEASE REBLOG AND SPREAD THE WORD!!

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Posted 4 months ago
frankiechich: IN CASE OF SOPA - BREAK GLASS. Thanks to some Reddit uses here is a handy list of popular website’s IP addresses to easily get through the proposed SOPA laws. When your freedom is impeded, enter the IP address instead of the usual web address. We can show that these laws are wrong and useless.

frankiechich:

IN CASE OF SOPA - BREAK GLASS.

Thanks to some Reddit uses here is a handy list of popular website’s IP addresses to easily get through the proposed SOPA laws. When your freedom is impeded, enter the IP address instead of the usual web address.

We can show that these laws are wrong and useless.

via bittergrapes