I looked at a different article each time. Still going on? Interesting. I'll try something. Indeed, I have found the answer. I just enabled JavaScript for wikimedia.org, and the blackout appeared. Then I disabled JavaScript again (my normal setting for the domain), and the blackout vanished like magic.
Google got 7 million signatures for their anti-SOPA petition. Also, 19 senators dropped support for the bill yesterday. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/sopa-protest-by-the-numbers-162m-pageviews-7-million-signatures.ars
Maddox hasn't been relevant for six years. And he doesn't even support SOPA. He's just tired of people being so complacent while bullshit like this gets passed.
Both party leaders are now saying they don't support PIPA. And everyone in congress seems like they're trying to distance themselves from these bills now that they're wildly unpopular. They've moved from supporting these bills to now saying they never supported them and playing the blame game. Republicans are trying to pin it all on Harry Reid. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/senate-leaders-of-both-parties-back-away-from-protect-ip.ars
http://static.thepiratebay.org/legal/sopa.txt This is one of the most reasonable things I've read regarding piracy. Hollywood are total hypocrites. They only exist in their current form because they were trying to circumvent Edison's patents on motion pictures a hundred years ago. Hollywood was basically the Pirate Bay or Demonoid of the early 1900s. And now they're trying to punish people for doing exactly what they did.
Any ideas about how to get the public as pissed off about the NDAA provision that allows indefinite detention without proof or trial as they got pissed off about SOPA? I've been posting a bunch of NDAA stuff on my facebook page, and almost everyone ignores it. The few that do respond claim it doesn't apply to US citizens and think I don't know what I'm talking about. I feel like I'm trying to teach algebra to a squirrel. Nothing is comprehended or absorbed. Why do the people here care more about justice in the Casey Anthony trial than they care about their own basic constitutional rights?
How can Pirate Bay be the equivalent of Hollywood if they don't produce their own content? Their analogy isn't even coherent. Even if you accept their idea that Hollywood circumvented Edison regarding the actual process of motion pictures and it's patent, Hollywood didn't rely on pirated copies of Edison content. They created their own. It's an entirely different scenario than what Pirate Bay represents. They're simply distributing someone else's content. It just goes to show that piracy on the internet has just as much to do with ego as anything else. They've deluded themselves into thinking they're the equivalent of content creators. Pirate Bay even makes the claim that "we've proven that their existence in their current form isn't needed". What a joke! Pirate Bay has zero relevance to anyone without the content produced by the companies they supposedly loathe.
exactly man! Piracy is an idea and it goes against the common idealogy just as Hollywood (or Rock Music) started out as. I didn't even read that article but I ask you, did Hollywood invent the ability to act or sing? Does Hollywood own you? They'd like to think so, anything you say and do cannot be copied by anyone else? That's preposterous... just like I'm sure the idea of one orer-ruling medium of acting and singing was to the traveling entertainment bands back in the 1700's. It's just a new idea that goes against the old idea (or rather a REALLY old idea that goes against Hollywood's new idea ) only the shoe is on the other foot. Get with the times man! Peace and love!! No shoes!! that's how I roll.
Piracy has no ideas. That's why they don't bother to create their own content. Just like Kim DotCom, they want the lavish lifestyle and million$ without the risk or effort of actually developing a product.
And Hollywood does?? lol c'mon they are just as staunch on their shovelware as anything. I don't even KNOW how much Hollywood comes up on it's own. I doubt anybody does. Anyway what I'm saying is pirates and hackers are every bit as resourseful as hollywood execs. If anything moreso!
The one thing that qualifies as "resourceful" in regards to digital piracy was the distribution method via the internet. Pirates were the first to realize how much demand there was for digital downloads. However, that doesn't qualify as particularly inventive these days. Digital stores are all over the place for every type of content. And when you get a behind-the-scenes look at the motivation of the people running pirate sites, like Megaupload, it doesn't look very different than Hollywood. Heck, Kim DotCom was even paying off the New Zealand government with tens of millions in donations.
it only got me into trouble once so far, reading is overrated lol @alterego if your looking for the most honorable method it is NOT pirating I'll agree with you there. But that's not the issue, it's not 'is pirating dishonorable, or bad, the issue is Hollywood trying to wipe it out. So their just as bad and dishonorable as Hollywood in some cases? Hollywood wants the monopoly on bad. I brought up Hollywood strugling against the notion early (US) pioneers had on entertainment, everybody has the right to entertain. Well Holllywood seems to want it so only THEY have the right to entertain. See it's not PHYSICAL property we're arguing about, not some original code or legal or illegal use of some guys servers. What they want is an IDEA, actually what they want is to RETTAIN this idea, and the public doesn't want to give it to them! I keep going back to the old way of entertainment., I see piracy of just going back to the old days. The days when Heroes were Heroes, when you had one you IMMITATED him, not forced to attempt to one up him like you are today. I'm a Baseball fan, and one thing I here quite often is, where have all the heroes gone? Well their not asking the right question. It should be Why can't we have Heroes in the first place? Why can't we play as Batman, Superman or Wonder Woman in City of Heroes?? They've all been copyrighted that's why.
"FBI Lets Megaupload's U.S. Superstar Musician CEO Swiss Beatz go Free" http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=23837 makes sense!! his wife is hawt!
Piracy ranks up at the top with insider trading, as victimless crimes the government will steamroll people for. The industry estimates are total shit and have to be held to the same standards as retail (1 in every 100 customers is a sale). If 100 people download something only 1 was likely to have paid in the first place.