Forum Posts: 0 | Comment #1 by Problemo Friday, January 20, 2012 @ 12:00:15 PM | |
| The Internets lives for another day. |
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Forum Posts: 90 | Comment #2 by sticks117 Friday, January 20, 2012 @ 12:01:22 PM | |
| Vive la Revolution!!!! |
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Forum Posts: 369 | Comment #3 by Verdinial Friday, January 20, 2012 @ 12:01:51 PM | |
HUZZAH :D
Everyone who fought to stop this is just a much a part of it as anyone else. Well done if you did ^_^ Now, lets hope we can slay it once and for all the next time it strikes. |
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Forum Posts: 557 | Comment #4 by Des Friday, January 20, 2012 @ 12:03:14 PM | |
| Anonymous wins again. |
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Forum Posts: 6217 | Comment #5 by Nevander Friday, January 20, 2012 @ 12:03:35 PM | |
Stupid Over Protective Asshats will not be blocking my internets, thank you kindly.
Sorry if offends anyone. :) |
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Forum Posts: 371 | Comment #6 by Craphex Friday, January 20, 2012 @ 12:03:47 PM | |
Achievement Unlocked
100G - Defeated SOPA |
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Forum Posts: 27 | Comment #7 by ShirleyPeanut Friday, January 20, 2012 @ 12:04:33 PM | |
| not dead, just waiting. |
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Forum Posts: 878 | Comment #8 by TacticalTodger Friday, January 20, 2012 @ 12:06:43 PM | |
| I thought it was just postponed? |
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Forum Posts: 2 | Comment #9 by solo017 Friday, January 20, 2012 @ 12:07:00 PM | |
| A win for the people! |
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Forum Posts: 484 | Comment #10 by CaptainKicker Friday, January 20, 2012 @ 12:08:01 PM | |
| Had a blast, protesting, January 18th. Really felt our opinion came out loud! Good job friends. |
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Forum Posts: 173 | Comment #11 by Blue Thunder28 Friday, January 20, 2012 @ 12:08:09 PM | |
| Common sense prevails for once. |
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Forum Posts: 933 | Comment #12 by Lord Montymort Friday, January 20, 2012 @ 12:08:30 PM | |
| Good. While they would have done some good, there was just too much wrong with these bills. Though IMO the biggest problem with both of these wasn't even what they would do, but that this was the US Government trying to pass bills that effect the entire world without even talking to the other countries Governments about it first. If these had been allowed to pass it would make the US Government even more big headed than it already is, they already "think" they rule the world, we shouldn't allow them to pass bills that can cripple the rest of us. |
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Forum Posts: 739 | Comment #13 by mickjsg Friday, January 20, 2012 @ 12:09:26 PM | |
| We need a 'like' button for #6's post. |
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Forum Posts: 86 | Comment #14 by mad4ra Friday, January 20, 2012 @ 12:09:59 PM | |
| Im from Austria, im really happy that this fucking bills failed. I like how the World and the Internet stand united against this shit all over the world. The Internet |
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Forum Posts: 776 | Comment #15 by XxStuartxX 1990 Friday, January 20, 2012 @ 12:10:14 PM | |
| I'm from uk and know nothing about US polatics, what exactly did these people propose tat was so bad? |
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Forum Posts: 10 | Comment #16 by onidemon Friday, January 20, 2012 @ 12:10:51 PM | |
We have the thumbs up button dude
OT - Really glad to hear that they have both been shelved |
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Forum Posts: 1 | Comment #17 by Davisto Friday, January 20, 2012 @ 12:11:14 PM | |
| thats good considering the internet is about free speech and sharing also it is common sense imagine if they controlled the net they wanted to it wouldnt suprise me if we couldnt do anything. and #6 where's my achievement :) |
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Forum Posts: 6217 | Comment #18 by Nevander Friday, January 20, 2012 @ 12:13:09 PM | |
| Also when I saw "SOPA and PIPA Fail..." a huge smile came over my face. :D |
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Forum Posts: 10 | Comment #19 by Di4L x MoTioNz Friday, January 20, 2012 @ 12:15:18 PM | |
| Let's hope the next incarnation of this bill is as publically published and isn't passed without it's due criticism. |
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Forum Posts: 980 | Comment #20 by Devil Sora Friday, January 20, 2012 @ 12:19:02 PM | |
Internet-1
SOPA-0 |
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Forum Posts: 292 | Comment #21 by DESTRO5 Friday, January 20, 2012 @ 12:19:35 PM | |
| Serves them right. Especially if they are gonna screw with youtube. |
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Forum Posts: 739 | Comment #22 by mickjsg Friday, January 20, 2012 @ 12:22:36 PM | |
| #16 - Sorry, didn't notice that. :P |
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Forum Posts: 0 | Comment #23 by eagracz53 Friday, January 20, 2012 @ 12:24:04 PM | |
Now Europe must fight with ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My4c82IxM94 |
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Forum Posts: 10 | Comment #24 by onidemon Friday, January 20, 2012 @ 12:24:44 PM | |
| No problemo :) |
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Forum Posts: 2493 | Comment #25 by Mister Buds Friday, January 20, 2012 @ 12:25:49 PM | |
| i'm going to celebrate by downloading a dozen pirated movies and albums! |
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Forum Posts: 1841 | Comment #26 by TakahashiDemon Friday, January 20, 2012 @ 12:27:01 PM | |
| I never thought this was gonna pass through anyways.. it was a bit crazy to think this would pass when it would effect sites like Facebook, YouTube, Google, which millions of people use, the complaints would have made them go back on their decision. |
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Forum Posts: 468 | Comment #27 by IceBlox Friday, January 20, 2012 @ 12:29:23 PM | |
megaupload goes down and hours later anonymous takes out a bunch of federal websites.... in the words of V
"People should not be afraid of their government.... governments should be afraid of their PEOPLE!!!!!!!!" |
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Forum Posts: 3 | Comment #28 by muh9ridzshotty Friday, January 20, 2012 @ 12:40:30 PM | |
| They'll be back. Big brother wants to control everything. |
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Forum Posts: 1397 | Comment #29 by linktriforce007 Friday, January 20, 2012 @ 12:45:30 PM | |
| Wasn't it delayed last monday? |
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Forum Posts: 1008 | Comment #30 by ginge88isfun Friday, January 20, 2012 @ 12:47:34 PM | |
| Now it seems like SOPA are trying to block some Wikipedia pages as well, tried find some information on the Tony Hawks HD collection thats coming out and some page came up about SOPA not allowing access to it, a few minutes later it disappeared. |
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Forum Posts: 141 | Comment #31 by shavron Friday, January 20, 2012 @ 12:56:04 PM | |
| This is a small victory of the Free Peoples of the Internet. In my eyes the events yesterday surrounding Megaupload and Anonymous's retaliation is basically a declaration of war. I just hope the US Government is smart enough to recognize that a small group of hackers did this and the amount of damage that could happen if a bigger assault took place. But if I know my government as well as I think I do all this means is they'll bump up security and vigilance. Not good. |
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Forum Posts: 646 | Comment #32 by BBowles Friday, January 20, 2012 @ 12:57:35 PM | |
So...democracy isn't quite dead yet here in America huh? Glad to hear it. If these had passed, I'd officially declare democracy dead and the USA no longer the greatest place to live.
Especially considering many political figures are on record as saying "we have no idea what these bills do, I don't understand these, I'm not a nerd, someone bring in the nerds to explain". I thought the people we elected were supposed to be smart, not just rich white elitists. Considering more than 5 of these politicians suggested bringing in "nerds" or commented that they were NOT "nerds" on television, I think they should all be removed from office. Especially the ones who said "I don't understand these laws, but from the brief summary I was given they sound good!"
I still think we should have a weekly election. Someone isn't doing their job, boom they're gone next week. Maybe then elected officials will actually do what they claim to believe in, instead of telling voters what they want to hear and then changing their ideals once elected. |
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Forum Posts: 0 | Comment #33 by bluHatter Friday, January 20, 2012 @ 01:06:07 PM | |
卐OPA and PIPA have no place in a free society. They effectively end free speech. It's amazing to me that I haven't found a single person (besides corrupt politicians) who is FOR these bills and yet we still have to fight so hard to push them back.
Why isn't something like this - that greatly affects human rights - put up to a popular vote? Why do we have a bunch of musky old fart bags who know nothing about the Internet making policy for all of us? |
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Forum Posts: 549 | Comment #34 by Ray5555 Friday, January 20, 2012 @ 01:07:06 PM | |
| Sopa had the right spirit, but it went about it the wrong way. Honestly we all know the sites that are pirating movies, games, music ect..... They should aim to make a law targetting them instead of everybody |
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Forum Posts: 48 | Comment #35 by thewordis Friday, January 20, 2012 @ 01:12:08 PM | |
| will X360A be ignoring E3 in protest against the ESA support for SOPA? |
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Forum Posts: 506 | Comment #36 by Mr Magic Friday, January 20, 2012 @ 01:15:50 PM | |
| People 1 - Government 0 |
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Forum Posts: 1397 | Comment #37 by linktriforce007 Friday, January 20, 2012 @ 01:58:08 PM | |
| @35 You're funny! |
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Forum Posts: 48 | Comment #38 by thewordis Friday, January 20, 2012 @ 02:10:26 PM | |
| @37 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHOZcHkvkvs i hope X360A dont mind me posting this but it is relevant |
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Forum Posts: 2586 | Comment #40 by Foxxy kyle Friday, January 20, 2012 @ 02:15:50 PM | |
| Fuck SOPA I need my porn. |
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Forum Posts: 15 | Comment #41 by Jack Flak Friday, January 20, 2012 @ 02:15:56 PM | |
| @6 Win sir, win. |
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Forum Posts: 9461 | Comment #42 by Carmona25 Friday, January 20, 2012 @ 02:37:52 PM | |
This is a big win...
@39 thanks for breaking the comment page. |
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Forum Posts: 12 | Comment #43 by Vomit Your Soul Friday, January 20, 2012 @ 02:41:15 PM | |
| @42 sorry... wish I could edit |
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Forum Posts: 386 | Comment #44 by Bum Commando Friday, January 20, 2012 @ 02:57:16 PM | |
| Yes! The internet lives!!! |
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Forum Posts: 23 | Comment #45 by S1rJ0hn0fY0rk Friday, January 20, 2012 @ 03:25:27 PM | |
| just another reason why everyone needs to vote this coming november so we can get the dumbass morons that came up with this garbage out of office. hopefully if that happens, we'll never have to worry about it again. notice how i said hopefully |
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Forum Posts: 274 | Comment #46 by Leone Phelps Friday, January 20, 2012 @ 03:36:32 PM | |
| @42 ?? There's nothing broken. |
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Forum Posts: 127 | Comment #47 by GaryYEAH Friday, January 20, 2012 @ 03:56:05 PM | |
"Hey, purty mouth. You dropped the SOPA."
We can only wish :D.
xx |
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Forum Posts: 63 | Comment #48 by Dlark17 Friday, January 20, 2012 @ 04:21:36 PM | |
| Wait, what protesters? All I've heard about are the butt-hurt bloggers, Wiki and Google making public statements, and about a million FaceBooks alight with useless posts and profile pic changes. When did someone actually get off their ass and do something about this? |
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Forum Posts: 7 | Comment #49 by BlackBird1996 Friday, January 20, 2012 @ 04:57:33 PM | |
| @ 33 thats not the nazi swastika (FAIL) |
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Forum Posts: 48 | Comment #50 by thewordis Friday, January 20, 2012 @ 05:39:01 PM | |
| @48 protest doesnt always mean marching down the street with a sign |
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Forum Posts: 38 | Comment #51 by Play N Skillz Friday, January 20, 2012 @ 06:20:51 PM | |
@49 idiot, It's inverted. And for the record, that symbol has not always been represented for the nazis.
OT: Win!!! |
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Forum Posts: 6 | Comment #52 by SIHuze Friday, January 20, 2012 @ 06:37:45 PM | |
Glad to see someone hase some sense.
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Forum Posts: 0 | Comment #53 by LAZORAZOR Friday, January 20, 2012 @ 06:37:51 PM | |
| small complaint but Im sick of acctually buying a movie and having commercials for anti-pirating and smoking. both have reverse effects on me. |
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Forum Posts: 313 | Comment #54 by Kyanite Friday, January 20, 2012 @ 07:16:46 PM | |
While I absolutely despise discussing politics on the Internet, I'm glad that SOPA and PIPA are in a coma. However, like #39 posted, I always had a very strong feeling that the bipartisan group who introduced both bills (SOPA by a Republican, PIPA by a Democrat) intended this to be a noisy red herring. Bills have a way of being reborn in carefully-reworded forms that no one really seems to notice.
Politics is the dirtiest game around regardless of what flag is flying, and the vast majority of politicians everywhere regardless of party affiliation are happy with most of the citizens wandering around like sheep who feel powerless to change things.
-sighs-
Okay, I'm done. |
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Forum Posts: 178 | Comment #55 by PuttyGod Friday, January 20, 2012 @ 07:18:18 PM | |
| "Shelved?" Not good enough. If you're going to put these shits back on the shelf, you better burn down the library that the shelf is in as well. |
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Forum Posts: 10 | Comment #56 by kaiyo penguin Friday, January 20, 2012 @ 07:22:32 PM | |
well as long as we find a way to keep gary glitter off the fucking internet. im good.
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Forum Posts: 69 | Comment #57 by Megis Eldurin Friday, January 20, 2012 @ 07:25:13 PM | |
| They're most likely just going to rename it, attach it to some other piece of legislature and push it through right under everyone noses. |
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Forum Posts: 69 | Comment #58 by Megis Eldurin Friday, January 20, 2012 @ 07:50:38 PM | |
| And I'm gonna copyright that, just so no one can quote it or point out the silly typo, cuz that's how copyrights work. |
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Forum Posts: 0 | Comment #59 by asilent boom Friday, January 20, 2012 @ 08:19:07 PM | |
Hopefully they never get voted on or shoved into another bill.
I found it pretty funny that some of the House and Senate members who are sponsoring this bill are actually using images on their facebook and twitter pages that would be considered piracy under the SOPA bill. Damn hypocrites. |
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Forum Posts: 1 | Comment #60 by XxMayhemxX Friday, January 20, 2012 @ 11:35:17 PM | |
| chalk one up for anonymous and all internet fans |
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Forum Posts: 1 | Comment #61 by XxMayhemxX Friday, January 20, 2012 @ 11:36:52 PM | |
| #59 lol yeah the members supporting it had copyrighted images on their pages.. they since took down.. but yeah thats funny stuff |
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Forum Posts: 33 | Comment #62 by Coruba Saturday, January 21, 2012 @ 02:02:15 AM | |
| How about just fining and incarcerating everyday citizens that illegally take this stuff, that will change peoples attitudes, it ok to say its illegal, but if no one gets in trouble who is going to listen. |
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Forum Posts: 22 | Comment #63 by sumthingchronic Saturday, January 21, 2012 @ 03:23:45 AM | |
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Forum Posts: 1524 | Comment #64 by Baihu1983 Saturday, January 21, 2012 @ 04:46:11 AM | |
| So ive not been really following this but if it was shelved why was megaupload shut down? And what could it mean for sites like youtube/daily motion and so on? |
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Forum Posts: 57 | Comment #65 by Shikamaru FTW Saturday, January 21, 2012 @ 05:04:02 AM | |
| Chuck Norris opposed this bill |
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Forum Posts: 0 | Comment #66 by sosolid08 Saturday, January 21, 2012 @ 07:43:46 AM | |
| aaa |
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Forum Posts: 204 | Comment #67 by Ceejus Saturday, January 21, 2012 @ 10:23:33 AM | |
| People against pirating piss me off. God forbid Hollywood actors get more money. Like hell if I'm gonna pay a whopping 35 bucks just to watch a 3D blu-ray whilst contributing to Hollywood's overly massive wealth. |
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Forum Posts: 69 | Comment #68 by Megis Eldurin Saturday, January 21, 2012 @ 01:33:30 PM | |
| If you ask me, MegaUpload was shut down because it was setting up a digital distribution platform for artists where they could sell their works and reap 90% of the sale value, instead of the measly few percentages they get through the media mafia. Something that would make the RIAA crap itself if it went through. |
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Forum Posts: 16 | Comment #69 by z3r0SHADOW Saturday, January 21, 2012 @ 01:57:35 PM | |
| Yay comment #69! |
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Forum Posts: 19 | Comment #70 by AcidPT Saturday, January 21, 2012 @ 04:58:24 PM | |
| Wait... isn't Anonymous threatening to take down PSN and Xbox live? Brace yourselves, the nastiness isn't over yet. It's only just beggining. |
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Forum Posts: 371 | Comment #71 by Optomistic Saturday, January 21, 2012 @ 11:49:50 PM | |
| The idea behind SOPA and PIPA had good intentions, but if it means Prohibition, censorship and all that business, then this was never gonna fly. I do agree that online-Pirates need to be stopped (Think Somalian pirates off the horn of africa) but it's gonnna take alot of work, especially since alot of users like free stolen software. |
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Forum Posts: 26 | Comment #72 by LovableCrazee Sunday, January 22, 2012 @ 02:46:02 AM | |
| ^What do Somalian pirates have to do with any of this? I don't think people would care if Somalian pirates made copies of peoples boats...don't be silly lol |
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Forum Posts: 21 | Comment #73 by slayer3100 Sunday, January 22, 2012 @ 06:07:00 AM | |
You guys should know that there is a much worse threat than SOPA and PIPA, yes it is great it has been stopped but the world is now threatened by ACTA. I will not explain the details here as the post would be far to large but if you really want to help save the internet (again) then go here:
http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/oquda/internet_listen_up_acta_is_scarier_than_both_pipa/
Good luck guys and keep the fight up. |
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Forum Posts: 533 | Comment #74 by Tonic24k Sunday, January 22, 2012 @ 09:36:38 AM | |
| LOL. They are SOPAthetic. |
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Forum Posts: 1299 | Comment #75 by Fire Hawk D Sunday, January 22, 2012 @ 10:48:41 AM | |
| Not even a tiny ounce surprised. C'mon, it's America. Everyone'll whine and moan until it's fixed. It's the American Way. |
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Forum Posts: 69 | Comment #76 by Megis Eldurin Sunday, January 22, 2012 @ 11:26:08 AM | |
| Huh. In latest new it turns out that the MPAA CEO Chris Dodd publicly admitted they're bribing government officials into accepting pro-Hollywood regulations, by which of course he means SOPA, PIPA and of course ACTA. |
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Forum Posts: 69 | Comment #77 by Megis Eldurin Sunday, January 22, 2012 @ 11:35:16 AM | |
Oh, there's a petition over here into investigating it here, hope you don't mind me breaking the link up so it doesn't mess up the page.
https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions/!/petition/
investigate-chris-dodd-and-mpaa-bribery-after-he-
publicly-admited-bribing-politicans-pass/DffX0YQv
The fact that there needs to be a petition before bribery is investigated already tells you enough about the state of affairs in the government. |
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Forum Posts: 155 | Comment #78 by Akatsuki Sw1tch Sunday, January 22, 2012 @ 12:56:54 PM | |
| Good FUCK SOBA! Bunch of old annoying pead's |
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Forum Posts: 155 | Comment #79 by Akatsuki Sw1tch Sunday, January 22, 2012 @ 12:58:00 PM | |
| ^SOPA (Poxy spell check) |
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Forum Posts: 41 | Comment #80 by Tim 13 Monday, January 23, 2012 @ 01:03:29 PM | |
| Supposedly now the new threat is something called ACTA, and the people who reported on it say, "If you think SOPA was bad, wait until you meet ACTA." I'm too scared to read into it. lol |
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