Apparently they are concerned about the proposed legistation against Online Piracy


I will have to read more into this legislation; I thought it was just against online movie/music piracy

from my understanding it's also for counterfeit fighting. So if you're a brand owner and suspect a site of selling counterfeit you can (according to SOPA proposal) take it down without any court injunction.

Is it bad that I'm just really happy that I decided to do the English to German part of a translation full of previously unknown terms before I attacked the French to German version thereof? Also - aren't most Wiki users more of the "open source is great" persuasion whereas the powers to be just have their secretary look up stuff, thus never really knowing where the info comes from?

As I understand it, if any website is accused of posting copyright infringing material, they can be blocked.

So if I were to post a link to a music video on this website, and someone in the US decided they didn't like it, englishforum would be blocked.

No doubt it will simply be used to censor people too. Someone has views you don't like? Accuse them of copyright infringement and wrap them up in legal procedures.

Been watching this story develop on ''The Young Turks'' youtube channel over the last few weeks.

I think Facebook, Google and Amazon might be doing a blackout as well.

cheers
SC

http://www.craigslist.org/about/SOPA
Write your Congress critters to complain (links provided in link)

From what I heard SOPA has been shelved, now the concentration is on PIPA

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/15/us...ml?_r=1&ref=us

Just imagine, kids the world over will have to read books to complete their homework!

Right, time to hold an honest Trivia night...

The sad thing is that they more often than not don't have any books that would help them do so. Even when I was a kid, my family was one of the ones with the most books compared to others, sometimes they didn't have anything other than the TV magazine!

Okay, I've started printing out Wikipedia on the office printer.

Psst; you can access websites that are currently inactive using Wayback: http://www.archive.org/web/web.php

I have plenty of books, I just don't think a collection of sci-fi, climbing guides, Lonely Planet guides, things like Plato's Republic/Hume/Rousseau/etc, college/grad school level science and math books are going to help some poor high school student. I'll be like and they'll be like (or, more likely, the teenage )

They say that all of philosophy is but footnotes to Plato.

So its just time to read without the footnotes.

SOPA is just another example of the US government overextending itself beyond its Constitutional framework. I understand and agree with the desire to protect intellectual property, but I think this is possibly the most horrible way to go about protecting IP rights. IF it gets passed, I believe it will be ruled unconstitutional in the courts, or a subsequent Congress will refuse to fund its enforcement...

you're all suckers, I've ordered a copy of this ahead of time!

http://wtfoodge.com/wikipedia-hardcopy/

I'm heading down to my bomb shelter and will come out 24 hours later when everything's back to normal again.

looks like the bills have already received considerable help of negative publicity..

hope it will be sufficient to get them withdrawn

Ooh nooooooo! How will I cope. Best get on the gin til it's over.