So I have decided this: the world will end either when S.O.P.A is passed, or Dec 21, 2012, which ever comes first.
If you have not heard of S.O.P.A check it out here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act
Please people, take five minutes and write to your local governer, to please stop this censorship of the interenet. Also, please don't swear when you write to them, it does NOT help the cause.
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The world will end when people stop talking about the world ending.
Really?
...the world will end.
The world will end.
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I stopped. But nothing hap...
Silly balloon man! People say it will end because the Mayan calendar ends! It just ends because they used math they made up and they didn't know how to calculate above that number! Silly you!
Looks like I need to post my response to this matter again. :dry.gif:
Honestly, folks. This proposed bill is nothing to be concerned about. At worst you would only need to worry if you are actively pirating videos/music/software or actively facilitating it.
I'm a professional artist whose getting ready to get my college diploma in the arts (and soon after that my business license), with my area of concentration being in digital art. As such, I can say from first hand knowledge that a bill like this would be very damaging to professionals who make their livings through art related jobs (this encompasses jobs well beyond what many people might think of when they think of art related jobs). IF, the proposed bill were actually as flawed and bad as so many overreacting people seem to believe it would be that is.
Truth be told, looking at what has been written/said about the bill and what I have seen of it, the whole thing is a cluster **** of such epic proportions that it would require the term "cluster ****" to be redefined. It would damage quite a few VERY large and influential industries if it were to be passed the way it is being described.
News corporations and organizations would be one such industry for a variety of reasons. Then there's the fact that the wording of the bill also means that if it were passed as it is, many the very industries trying to get it passed would be shooting themselves in the foot as it would criminalize various tools that different areas of the entertainment industry use and/or depend on to do their work. :blink.gif:
So why then, would these industries be trying to get a bill passed that would criminalize some of the tools that they themselves rely on? The answer to that question is pretty simple: the folks who try to get such bills passed are likely the higher ups whose concerns (both personal and professionally) are to make money, and not "the small guy" who puts in all the hard work using the fancy tools and know-how behind the scenes.
Still, even if they aren't making smart decisions on what to petition the government to outlaw, wouldn't their smart lawyers see this problem and say something? I would think that this should be one of the things they warn their clients about too. Then again, lawyers do tend to require money to maintain a lifestyle that doesn't involve living in a cardboard box in the alley behind their workplace.
So to summarize: this bill is nothing to worry about, as if it were really as flawed and bad as people seem to think it is the resulting cluster **** would be too damaging to the country as a whole for a variety of technical reasons. :tongue.gif:
If you have not heard of S.O.P.A check it out here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act
Please people, take five minutes and write to your local governer, to please stop this censorship of the interenet. Also, please don't swear when you write to them, it does NOT help the cause.
The correct answer is actually neither, Chicken Little.
I think he's joking..
He's joking.. Right?
stolen from Tirin<3
I think I will because then I I'll have no more Funny Junk
Cant you idiots relise that people wont allow it
plus it will be hacks :3 silly boy
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nuff said
Really?
...the world will end.
The world will end.
The world will end.
The world will end.
The world will end.
The world will end.
The world will end.
The world will end.
The world will end.
The world will end.
The world will end.
The world will end.
The world will end.
....
....
....
....
I stopped. But nothing hap...
*explosion*
Honestly, folks. This proposed bill is nothing to be concerned about. At worst you would only need to worry if you are actively pirating videos/music/software or actively facilitating it.
I'm a professional artist whose getting ready to get my college diploma in the arts (and soon after that my business license), with my area of concentration being in digital art. As such, I can say from first hand knowledge that a bill like this would be very damaging to professionals who make their livings through art related jobs (this encompasses jobs well beyond what many people might think of when they think of art related jobs). IF, the proposed bill were actually as flawed and bad as so many overreacting people seem to believe it would be that is.
Truth be told, looking at what has been written/said about the bill and what I have seen of it, the whole thing is a cluster **** of such epic proportions that it would require the term "cluster ****" to be redefined. It would damage quite a few VERY large and influential industries if it were to be passed the way it is being described.
News corporations and organizations would be one such industry for a variety of reasons. Then there's the fact that the wording of the bill also means that if it were passed as it is, many the very industries trying to get it passed would be shooting themselves in the foot as it would criminalize various tools that different areas of the entertainment industry use and/or depend on to do their work. :blink.gif:
So why then, would these industries be trying to get a bill passed that would criminalize some of the tools that they themselves rely on? The answer to that question is pretty simple: the folks who try to get such bills passed are likely the higher ups whose concerns (both personal and professionally) are to make money, and not "the small guy" who puts in all the hard work using the fancy tools and know-how behind the scenes.
Still, even if they aren't making smart decisions on what to petition the government to outlaw, wouldn't their smart lawyers see this problem and say something? I would think that this should be one of the things they warn their clients about too. Then again, lawyers do tend to require money to maintain a lifestyle that doesn't involve living in a cardboard box in the alley behind their workplace.
So to summarize: this bill is nothing to worry about, as if it were really as flawed and bad as people seem to think it is the resulting cluster **** would be too damaging to the country as a whole for a variety of technical reasons. :tongue.gif:
I think it's time you put the mouse down and go outside.
stolen from Tirin<3