SOPA

[Zahas]

http://www.avaaz.org/en/save_the_internet/?vc

Sign this, please. Every little bit helps.

Done.
Posting this thing even on my facebook.

[Vladimir]

Facebook protesters 8-)

Only idiots base sites in usa (or europe, or russia, for that matter). Equador and other non-countries are the way to go. As for this little logical step called SOPA, sure, let them dig themselves deeper. Won't affect me in my cozy place 8-))

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[Niverlare]

Facebook protesters 8-)

Only idiots base sites in usa (or russia, for that matter). Equador and other non-countries are the way to go. As for this little logical step called SOPA, sure, let them dig themselves deeper. Won't affect me in my cozy place 8-))

It will basically affect the whole internet, if you can think that far. There's no American internet, or a European Internet. There's just -the- Internet.

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[jammi]

On the recent signers list, there seems to be way more people from the UK than anywhere else. Probably timezones. :P

In other news, signed. And yeah, my name is probably buried by now. :D

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[Rodent]

Yeh, signed.

[Evan_]

Ok. Signed. And +1.

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[Zelot]

It seems I am the only one here who thinks the creator of things should have some right for his or her work not to be stolen and abused with nothing going into their pocket for it. The more people try to take away the rights of artists, game makers to make a living producing their products, the less of all of their creations we have.

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[Rommie]

It seems I am the only one here who thinks the creator of things should have some right for his or her work not to be stolen and abused with nothing going into their pocket for it. The more people try to take away the rights of artists, game makers to make a living producing their products, the less of all of their creations we have.

I'm sure most people here share that opinion, but the thing everyone is worried about is influential people (like the Universal example that was given in the vid from the op post) forcing sites to take down things they do not own, or, if this thing succeeds, closing the site alltogether.

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[Zelot]

I'm sure most people here share that opinion

I would actually doubt that, most people here seem to think that torrrenting or in other ways using material without the consent of it's creator and without any profit to it's creator is perfectly ok. I would say the majority of people here probably torrent games and movies. Do you?

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[Evan_]

The common counter-argument is that by copying, using and reusing such material, you provide publicity to the stolen intellectual property, and it's author. And people start using software ages before they could afford them. When these people grow up, they'll be consumers on the digital market, what they most likely wouldn't become if they wouldn't played trough their childhood with pirated games.

And the distributors shouldn't spend much on commercials - their products spread, and who likes it, buys them. And people pay a lot to see their favorite band on the stage, especially if they saw all their videos on youtube. People who torrented games are now buying it for bucks on Steam.

Also digital piracy is well-spread since at least a decade, and I'm yet to see the foretold regression in those industries.

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