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It's the RIAA and the MPAA with the help of their paid Congressmen in the USA government that are threatening to block internet sites. Many web sites are protesting today. Try reading some news: http://arstechnica.com/
Last edited by jagabo; 18th Jan 2012 at 13:47.
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More info ....
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/open-ready-to-take-on-sopa-in-congress-2012-01-18?sit...dist=bigcharts
from the link
OPEN ready to take on SOPA in Congress
Piracy legislation opponents ready alternative amid web protests
The Motion Picture Association of America, headed by former Sen. Christopher Dodd, a Democrat who represented Connecticut, is a key backer of the SOPA legislation. Piracy of movies and music has been a longtime complaint from the film and recording industries, who say they lose billions of dollars from copying of their work.
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Yes, I did it.
I'm thinking of moving the site to netherlands.
What kind of download speed do you from US get from http://mirror.leaseweb.net/speedtest/100mb.bin (100 MB test file)?
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Looks like I'm averaging about 75 KB/sec.
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They're getting paid to vote for PIPA/SOPA. And they need the money for the election campaigns.
It varied a lot. Mostly between about 250 and 350 KB/sec. according to FireFox's download monitor. A little over 5 minutes to download the entire file.Last edited by jagabo; 18th Jan 2012 at 18:54.
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Test also http://speedtest.hou02.softlayer.com/downloads/test100.zip ( our current network). So you can compare against leaseweb.
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D/L took 14minutes each file...on DSL 1MB/s over here.....i get 115 to 123 kbs actual speeds,
the zip d/l'ed at 120+ mostly while the bin file between 115-120 kbs
the above has always been tipicle for me, though i think those with much faster connections are mostly affected with noticable variances.
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Not the shiniest penny in the roll eh.....
Yep....
I said it a couple/few years ago, If they get away with $h!t like this, the next thing they are going to try and do is outlaw dvd rentals!!!!
Imagine how much $$$ they are losing when millions of people are renting dvd's for a dollar or two instead of paying $20.00 each to watch a movie by having to buy it
How can we limit or block people from reading and acquiring knowledge ?!?!?!
I wiped my @$$ today, i need to pay a tax for the privilege!!!
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Congressional backers of SOPA bill (and some Senate on their PIPA bill) are bailing after the light of public disclosure.
I think the hero is Wikipedia that went completely (almost) black for a day*.
I haven't yet sorted out all the issues but the protest points sound relevant. You can't require a web site to police user comment under threat of blockage. I tend to support Rep Issa who says a court should require proof before a web site is banned and a period of notice to comply.
Read the Pro-Con and make your opinion.
PS: On third thought, ban any lawyer fees to fight the court battle. All must argue pro bono. No remedy.
* Only because the site accepts no advertising.Last edited by edDV; 18th Jan 2012 at 22:50.
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Any links ?
I have not seen anything yet but it would not surprise me as they are all pretty much only concerned with self preservation!!
When i got up this morning i noticed right away thet every thread i opened on Vhelp went to that black page about the new bill, and i was like oh yeah!!!
I have not heard anything about it for awhile, why is today so special that every site is protesting it ?
I heard them talking about it on a local rock station this morning, because they wanted to check something they were talking about but they could not because they said Wiki was down....
then it was a couple of hours later i realized what they were talking about......
When i got home from work almost every site i frequent was down or redirecting to a page talking about the new bill the $$$ mongers were trying to pass.
I don't need to as i have already read a ton of info about it, but......
A new link with new info is always appreciated!!!
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Only for a short time. The strategy of the RIAA and MPAA is to introduce bills with features that they know will not pass. Then they "compromise" getting half of what they want. Then a year or two later they introduce a new bill with even more egregious features and "compromise" again. They will do this over and over again until they get everything they want. If you doubt this read the diplomatic emails regarding pressure put on Spain in the last few years -- leaked by Wikileaks.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/how-the-us-convinced-spain-to-adopt-in...censorship.ars
And have no doubt about it: it is the RIAA and MPAA writing these bills, not Congress.
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Imagine how much $$$ they are losing when millions of people are renting dvd's for a dollar or two instead of paying $20.00 each to watch a movie by having to buy it
privilege!!!
Agreed. While they're at it, why don't they cancel TV, as well? That way, if someone wants to watch, for example, Law & Order they have to buy it. Then, they could implement some cr@p that only allows you to watch you copy, which you paid good money for, one time before it becomes no good. Of course, someone will learn how to circumvent this cr@p, and post their instructions on the internet. So, therefore, the only real answer is to shut down the internet.
And forget about the financial deficit!!! As long as the people in the government keep their jobs, and their undeservedly high salaries (at tax payer's expense), the rest of us can just fend for ourself. The most important thing here is that we forget about the real issues here, and pay rediculous taxes for the "privilege" of getting caught up in partisan bickering, just like our forefathers wanted. Boy, won't they be proud of how screwed up we'll soon be.
Of course, that was all 100% sarcastic. But, you all get my point.
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It's already been invented and implemented. With DIVX the discs would degrade after exposure to the air. They were only watchable for a day or two. There's Pay-per-view on cable systems. Then there's the Broadcast Flag which has "copy never", "copy once", and "copy freely" flags. They aren't allowed to use the restricted settings for broadcast and normal cable channels but modern equipment is already set up to respond to the flags. Every now and then you hear about how some broadcast was "accidentally" flagged "copy never" and everybody's DVRs didn't record the show. I suspect at least some of these were experiments to see how well the system worked and how much shit hit the fan when they used it.
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Those DivX discs were designed for a rental system which did not require customers to return the discs. It failed miserably. I imagine that the ephemeral nature of the discs and needing a player that played the DivX discs in order to watch them had something to do with that.
The US Broadcast Flag was only for digital over-the-air TV. The portion of the FCC regulation requiring compliance from equipment manufacturers was declared illegal in 2005, because the FCC only had authority over transmission. The FCC officially eliminated the Broadcast Flag from its regulations last year.
You are thinking of the copy protection flags used by paid TV providers. The FCC permits those, but places limitations on their use, and lacks the legal authority to force equipment manufacturers to obey them. If recording equipment or software does obey them, the maker has agreed to it for other reasons.
The FCC's rules for the flags are as follows: Channels that are also available over-the-air must be marked "copy freely". Channels that are only available on cable may be marked "copy once", which means the only copy allowed is the original recording. "Copy never", which prevents recording, is only allowed for certain premium channels, pay-per view events and paid on-demand movies. To use copy-never protection, the programming cannot derive income from advertising. Also, time shifting has to be either built-in (PPV or on-demand allows viewers to choose when they will watch), or provided using something other than a recording device (subscribers have free access to the program on-demand).Last edited by usually_quiet; 19th Jan 2012 at 11:59. Reason: spelling
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