Stop Online Piracy Act

Itll never work

i could've sworn i heard somewhere that youtube had a plan to adhere to the rules of sopa so they wouldn't be shut down.

if this bill passes, the way it's written right now, the internet would basically be censored as a whole. If you watch a video that has a Metallica song playing in the background, you could essentially be fined and potentially arrested, the way this bill is written.

It's such an absurd bill, because even if it passes completely and they turn the internet into a police state, they will still fail to censor anything that they are truly after. Almost every torrent site is hosted and their servers are located in the Netherlands, where there is NO regulation against torrents and file sharing, and there never will be. Furthermore, anyone who's smart enough to effectively use file sharing programs (no, I don't mean going to one of the big public torrent sites and hitting download) also knows how to use proxies and VPN shields. With two clicks of a proxy, your ISP can't see any of the traffic you're using, anything you're downloading, or anything. they just see traffic, most directed to a site like Yahoo in appearance. The websites, who would be the ones doing the blocking through something widespread like a DNS block (similar to the ones already set up in North Korea to censor and control the internet there), would be easily bypassable with the same simple proxy, by reassigning your IP address as one from, drawing a name out of a hat, Russia. The website wouldn't see an American or British IP address, the address that says who and where you are, but rather a Russian (or whatever countries refuse to embrace this, and trust me, there'll be many) and let's it right in.

It's all a matter of the tech geeks being about five steps ahead of those who try to control it. Why do you think Limewire went on for as long as it did before eventually being "stopped" and why do you think sites like pirate bay, very public, are able to outright LAUGH at things like this? Because they know that all these acts will ultimately do is block things they aren't intending to, like simple search engine results, filter out a few grade school kids looking to download the still in theaters Twilight, and 40 somethings who think the extent of the internet is playing Farmtown, but hear they can download Pink Floyd at freeillegalmusic.web (not a real site, don't freak out..). It'll stop people who don't know better, but the majority of the underground p2p community will still flourish.

Google doesn't support SOPA. And let's just say that for some reason, somehow YouTube (an entity owned by Google) did: SOPA would kill YouTube dead in the water, and everyone knows it. They'd either be entirely mislead (as in fail to understand the sheer magnitude of this bill) or utterly insane to support something that will scare off their userbase.

Them don't charge so god damn much for every pay per view lol I used to order every show but now its ridiculous, especially if I can just wait a couple hours and watch it online rather than spend hard earned money on a show that could be as bad as December 2 Dismember.

I say pass it. Then the government can finally deal with a backlash they don't want. Sure they can pass NDAA, they can cause literally everything wrong with America. Facebook, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, etc have said when SOPA passes they'll blackout. Watch the American public freak out when they can't do what they do every day. Want to post your drunken photos online? Too bad, the government stopped you. If it doesn't pass, all it means is politicians want to keep in office to keep making money for doing more stupid crap companies want.

Also there's no point in trying to stop piracy. People have done it for years. What do you think tape trading was? What were people doing when they ripped songs from radio? Format changes, that's all. Companies need to evolve with the times, sell to who wants to buy, and give them a product worth paying for. Big companies are afraid that smaller companies can finally play at their field without sinking millions into something. This isn't really about censoring in a way, it's about companies trying to maintain what they're afraid they're losing.

Well as of right now

Microsoft
Sony
Google
Nintendo

and many many other large corporations are removing support and this thing is losing steam fast. Which is an excellent thing. It's one thing to work against piracy it's another to control the internet which is why this bill will never be passed.

Yes.

Your facts are all wrong. Don't get me wrong, SOPA is bad, but Google doesn't support it, it won't affect torrenting and Limewire is piracy, not "free music."

Armed robbery results in free money. Not sure what your point is.