DNS Provision Pulled From SOPA, Protect IP

Yeah pulled for now until it's passed and then they will find a way to put it back in. Fcuk SOPA all of it.

if they pass SOPA. i'm going to hunt down who voted yes and smear shit on their door.

This is not a victory at all. The victory will be when all SOPA and PIPA initiatives are dropped, and things continue on as they are now. In my opinion, the internet is at the height of it's existence, and has never been better. The government needs to just leave it alone, and accept that piracy is what it is. No matter how you slice it, it's not the end of the world that giant corporations are losing like 0.001% of their profits as a result of piracy. If people are pirating instead of buying, it's the company's own fault that they're doing something wrong (**Crysis 2**).

Stop trying to fix what isn't broken! LEAVE PIRACY ALONE. We get that piracy isn't good, per se, for companies, but the alternative is screwing up the internet as we know it. Just suck it up. The United States government is incapable of making an act that will stop piracy and not screw up the internet, so just DON'T TRY.

TL;DR The internet is fine how it is stop trying to change it.

Fonzy nailed it. They will pull out a few bits of the bill to cool of the criticism and make sure it gets passed. But as soon as it is passed they will reintroduced all those same provisions in a new bill and we'll start all over; and keep losing ground to the internet censors.

Canada is trying to one up this...........http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnE2lOpYLQ8

have a look

no, this bill has to die completely.

oh Kanada....

This elections season,they haven't got a chance to pass.So, it's you guys should be careful to vote(I'm not an American)

I loved School House Rock!

Any form of SOPA that could possibly do anything about piracy will kill the internet. Any form of SOPA that won't hurt the internet will not affect piracy. There is no changes that will make it work. It's cementing the door shut so burglars cant get in. You also cant get out. You have to leave a doorway open and secure it with other means.

They've realized that the DNS provisions are too controversial to have in a copyright bill. They'll stick it in a farm bill next time.

Are the Toms websites considering the idea of joining the Jan. 18th blackout?

i hope so... the uk tried passing a similar bill but it didnt even get a debate. it was left till the last minute and slipped in with out the house looking at it... peter mandelson basically made a law where you are guilty even if you can prove your innocent... if your ip gets spoofed your still guilty because you didnt secure it. yes that kind of law...
thing is, it may have snuck in via the back door (typical mandelson tactic. he loves the back door ) but no isp is actually using it or upholding it because they know just how damaging a bill like that can be... after all if you ban your customers your quickly going to run out of subscribers. (take note BT,VODA,BSKYB)... (you gotta admire virgins brass balls, they sell there net on the premise you can download 7 700mb films, b4 there traffic management kicks in. there basically saying we know your gonna pirate films and this is how many you can get per session... tssk tssk tssk...)

every 1 that has the net in there home should contact there local mp(uk) and house reps/ state goveners (America) and demand this kind of bill be dropped or you dont vote for em next time round...
if enough people do it they will have no option but to adhere to public opinion...
remember sometimes the little guy can pick a fight and win... especially if he brings a gun to a knife fight

Getting to the core of why it is Congress' responsibility to protect against piracy, is the little fact that it is built into the US Constitution. Article 1, Section 8 states that Congress shall have power..."To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;" That right there is the ideal our Congress is trying to uphold. The problem of course is that we have a clash of 18th century ideals with 21st century realities. In the modern world, copyright infringement comes largely from those seeking personal enjoyment or glory. Back in the day of our forefathers copyright infringement would have come largely from those seeking monetary profit. Besides, how do we define "useful Arts"?
I think to understand the full scale of this situation we need to take a little history lesson to see what our forefathers meant. We've all lived in a world where creative works are protected by law, but I wonder, what is a world without the protection of creative works like? I know I've never been taught such a thing even in college history classes.
In the end, what these acts boil down to is, do we wish to protect 18th century ideals, and continue protecting the profits of crappy mainstream music artists, and George Lucus, or continue on our path of free information?
Do we protect the profits of others, or the spread of knowledge for the greater good of humanity?

Fuck you America, you cannot try and rule the world and our internet. Fuck you.

But I like the internet as it is. If SOPA passes, it will make me sad. Do you want to make me sad? :,(
The reason I fell in love with the internet when I was little was because it was a chaotic playground for those who saw fit to play. If the internet was only email and facebook when I first booted up and dialed, I would have gone and played sports or something boring like that.

What a wanker - he probably doesn't even know where the escape key is! plonker! get hit by a bus and die, do us all a favour.

this is a talk from the german hacker conference 28c3 (presenter is american). apart from being a very very good talk in general (no powerpoint and he still gets his point across ), he does an excellent job of describing how fucked up the anti piracy movement is.
http://youtu.be/HUEvRyemKSg

I see a lot of angry kids leaving their usual derogatory language in these comments but one thing I hardly ever see are any solutions to the problems that SOPA brings up. Most of us have automobiles that can go way over the posted speed limits but that doesn't mean we can disregard those limits and drive anyway we want. Just because you can pirate songs, movies, and software doesn't mean you will abide by the current piracy laws and refrain from doing it. It's human nature to take as much as is available without using restraint and so laws have to be put in place because of human laziness to respect other people's property.

"After consultation with industry groups across the country, I feel we should remove (DNS) blocking from the Stop Online Piracy Act so that the [U.S. House Judiciary] Committee can further examine the issues surrounding this provision," Smith said in a statement released by his office.

"We will continue to look for ways to ensure that foreign Web sites cannot sell and distribute illegal content to U.S. consumers," he added.

the bold section completely contradicts the other part.

is like saying, we know this is wrong, but we will continue to finding ways to get away with it.

Remember: This guy is responsible for copyright infringement on his own home page. He can't be taken seriously.

I think people forget that we live in a capitalistic world, where EVERYTHING is for sale. These politicians are individuals selling themselves to the highest bidder and once they have sold themselves they work to pass laws or regulations for the winning bidder. This is the reason why SOPA and PIPA are being pushed, because the people behind the bill sold themselves to corporations that believe piracy is the reason they aren't earning more revenue per year. The current state of our nation (USA) sickens me deeply. When an individual, group of people, body of government or the like values MONEY over everything else that these obscene and utterly out of control bills, laws or regulations are being passed for the sole purpose of increasing income; you need to stop and ask yourself what is medically wrong with these people. The monetary system was a game created by humans, and now the creators have become addicted to their own creation, and it is that addiction that is driving the world into chaos and destruction. The most addictive substance on the planet is Money itself, and there are billions of people who continue to use it despite the negative consequences associated with it.

@infectedkid6 well maybe you should just gimmie all of your money so i can protect ya from the negative consequences associated with it.

What these big companies don't realize is that piracy isn't as big of an issue as they think it is. Some people who pirate wouldn't buy the content anyway. Some people who pirate later buy the content because when they pirated it they decided that they liked it. Some people pirate because of DRM but would pay otherwise. And yes, some people pirate just because they can but would pay otherwise. Charging high prices and making crappy products in a lot of cases might be why people aren't willing to pay...

You cannot stop "piracy" without stopping all communication online. For example:

magnet:?xt=urn:btihe4b63524c5df5be886ad5cb494533e29457e15e

Will start* a Linux Mint torrent from The Pirate Bay, which is legal, cause it's open source software. But it could just as easily have been a movie or Photshop CS5. So to prevent sharing, you would not only have to stop "pirate websites", but also every comment system, every email, anything that could send one line of text.

*Note: the magnet link above works if you have Firefox 9 and uTorrent 3.1 installed, it may not work for other browsers or torrent programs.

hahahaha yea and I thought the South African government is full of idiots hahaha

Why not shut down the internet? It seems that selling products is more important to the USA than global intellectual progress or freedom of speech.
The internet will never be fully controllable, because "pirates" will simply switch to portable media, just like the internet's early stages with circulating floppy disks.

This is why you never teach old politicians computer skills. It's the one place they usually can't get into.