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Please view, this is important!!!The Companies Pushing SOPA Are The Same People Who Distributed The
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GoDaddy lost 72,354 domains this week. It’s not enough. | Techi.com
Despite a massive Twitter campaign and a blog post that claims “Go Daddy no longer supports SOPA legislation” the company and their CEO have dodged questions about opposing the bill. In essence, they are taking a lesser role by not showing support for the bill. They have not opposed it.
This week, they lost around 72,000 domain registrations. At a yearly discounted rate of $6.99 (most registrations are higher), that’s over half a million dollars per year. It is apparently not enough for them to speak out against the bill.
A true measure of a man's character is his willingness to speak the truth - even at the expense of his reputation.
A hallmark of self-deceiving cowards is their acceptance of authority as their truth, rather than the truth as their authority.
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21,000 domains transfer out of Go Daddy in 1 day | Digital Media - CNET News
Ironic this is coming from c|net after watching the OP's video.Natalie Weinstein says... "Domain registrar Go Daddy lost over 21,000 domains yesterday. It could be a coincidence--or it could be the result of the company's p.r. debacle over its support for the Stop Online Piracy Act"
A true measure of a man's character is his willingness to speak the truth - even at the expense of his reputation.
A hallmark of self-deceiving cowards is their acceptance of authority as their truth, rather than the truth as their authority.
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Has there been some co-ordinating/planning session that has developed a format for manipulating the government(s) to make laws desired by the elite/oligarchy that subvert the freedoms of the people(s)and avoids their displeasure by making a self brewed tempest in a teapot???
The most recent news about OKC bombing. Fast and Furious, and now this,I think something is surely wagging this dog!!
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Thanks for this one, interesting.
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It always surprised me that these huge media companies try and "prevent" piracy and yet most of the major websites and webhosting servers we use to share things on are also owned by those same media companies. Kind of Funny. I think eventually they'll get the SOPA laws passed simply because it will help them keep a better eye on information people share. HOWEVER, they will never shut down file sharing completely, not now. We have too much technology. I can set up a server here at my house and network it out to half the county with ease. It wouldn't take much more to network from my town to the next and so forth, without using any mainstream internet.
triedandtrue.
SOPA Becoming Election Liability for the Politicians Bacing It
Keep the internet unregulated and free. Period.
To the ranks of same-sex marriage, tax cuts and illegal immigration, add this to the list of polarizing political issues of Election 2012: the Stop Online Piracy Act.
The hot-button anti-piracy legislation that sparked a revolt online is starting to become a political liability for some of SOPA’s major backers. Fueled by Web activists and online fundraising tools, challengers are using the bill to tag its congressional supporters as backers of Big Government — and raise campaign cash while they’re at it.
Among the fattest targets: SOPA’s lead author, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas), and two of its most vocal co-sponsors, Reps. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.). House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) has also felt the wrath of SOPA opponents.
Even GOP presidential contenders Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum were asked by voters recently to weigh in on the bill (neither gave definitive answers, though activists have interpreted Santorum’s response as more sympathetic to SOPA than Romney’s).
It’s a stretch to think SOPA will cost any of the longtime incumbents backing the bill their seats. The legislation would give government new powers to shutter websites that peddle counterfeit products and pirated copies of movies and music.
But there are signs the issue, long the domain of think tanks and intellectual property lawyers, could become a real factor in some races.
Prominent conservative blogger Erick Erickson, for one, has promised to make life miserable for any GOP lawmaker who gets behind the bill. His first target: Blackburn.
“I love Marsha Blackburn. She is a delightful lady and a solidly conservative member of Congress,” Erickson wrote on his widely read blog, Red State. But “I am pledging right now that I will do everything in my power to defeat her in her 2012 re-election bid.”
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Let's hope this is buried for a while. I have a feeling the congress critters will keep trying to sneak internet regulation into other bills.
Less than 24-hours after promising not to yield, the Texas congressman and author of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) Lamar Smith is yielding on the bill's controversial language that would allow the government to censor the Internet -- for now. "After consultation with industry groups across the country, I feel we should remove Domain Name System blocking from the Stop Online Piracy Act so that the [Judiciary] Committee can further examine the issues surrounding this provision," Smith said in a Friday afternoon press release. "We will continue to look for ways to ensure that foreign websites cannot sell and distribute illegal content to U.S. consumers."
RELATED: The Author of SOPA Is Also a Copyright Violator (Sort of)
First of all, three cheers for the Internet. (That's an evergreen sort of thing to say, but we're pretty sure the Internet is collectively cheering the new.) Second of all, it's still not time for civil rights types to start popping corks. The bill is not dead. As Chairman Smith says, the Judiciary Committee is only pumping the brakes on the progress of the bill, while Internet experts can properly study the implications of censoring the web by using DNS blocking. This is weird because pretty much every Internet expert in the country has unabashedly condemned SOPA's domain-blocking measures and, well, the entire bill. But it is certainly a little victory for the tens if not hundreds of thousands of freedom advocates who've been protesting the bill for months. If anything, it's a major, frankly embarrassing loss for Smith. Now, he not only looks like a hypocrite, he also looks like a waffler. Americans have a tendency not to (re-)elect wafflers.
SOPA's Architect Is Finally Starting to Back Down - Yahoo! News
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I find it amusing how these clowns are always bitching about piracy. If they weren't so greedy about their royalty checks this wouldn't be an issue. Who are the real pirates ?
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The thing I find humorous, about this, if that's the right term, is that Hollywood owes its existence to he theft of intellectual property.
The movie industry began in New York, and the predecessors of the future Hollywood movie studios were a group of mostly Jewish movie makers illegally using equipment and systems patented by Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse. Edison and Westinghouse sued them to get them to stop infringing on their intellectual property and the courts consistently ruled in their favor. But they continued their illegal actions, Edison and Westinghouse then hired squads of private detectives to track down the locations where they were shooting their movies and destroyed all their equipment and the films they could find. As these rogue film makers had no legal standing they simply moved to the other end of the nation to be away from the easy reach of the patent owners.
Eventually when the Hollywood film makers became established the courts suddenly reversed their earlier positions and ruled in the studios favor.
Of course they were organized Jews so such silly things as intellectual property laws only apply if they're the ones losing money.
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