http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act
hmmmmmmm
― Sh1pley Gohard (D-40), Friday, 13 January 2012 02:18 (twelve years ago) link
less web-based filesharing, people will figure out a new and clever way around that within like a week tho
― unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 13 January 2012 02:25 (twelve years ago) link
passenger pigeon
― Number None, Friday, 13 January 2012 02:26 (twelve years ago) link
putting CD into manila folder (the "file"), then "sharing" it via US mail
― unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 13 January 2012 02:26 (twelve years ago) link
mix cds are the new moonshine
― omar little, Friday, 13 January 2012 02:27 (twelve years ago) link
sopes vs tacos
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 13 January 2012 02:28 (twelve years ago) link
I tell you what's not going to happen: a pronounced uptick in the sales of recorded media in response to increasing difficulty getting shit for free. This is dumb legislation. I would really, really, really love it if all the people who enjoy Aerosmith music bought the albums. That would be fuckin awesome. It's never going to happen. Trying to legislate a return to the pre-filesharing age just the dumbest.
― unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 13 January 2012 02:30 (twelve years ago) link
my understanding is that the internet will shut down for like a year while telephone operators reconnect all the cables
― bob loblaw people (dayo), Friday, 13 January 2012 02:31 (twelve years ago) link
actually the one thing that will definitely happen is that the MPAA/RIAA will line the campaign chests of any and all politicians who voted for it
― bob loblaw people (dayo), Friday, 13 January 2012 02:32 (twelve years ago) link
I despair, i really do
http://www.siliconrepublic.com/comms/item/25316-record-giants-sue-irish/
― Number None, Friday, 13 January 2012 02:34 (twelve years ago) link
but like, for no reason! this is not going to get them extra money! there's just nothing in this for them, and if they manage to shut down any of the mediafires of the world, they'll further alienate producers/engineers/musicians/filmmakers who make DAILY use of these services and are pretty accustomed to having a wide range of options for getting files to people who need to see/hear them
― unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 13 January 2012 02:35 (twelve years ago) link
just wondering if i wasted my 20s learning a valuable skill like 'youtube surfing,' and if i should be furiously downloading any & all 90s g-funk records from hamburg-based gangster rap blogs now before the fire rains down from the heavens
or if someone will just invent a newer better napster
― Sh1pley Gohard (D-40), Friday, 13 January 2012 02:37 (twelve years ago) link
Ubuweb have been tweeting about how they'll surely go down if it passes. Which might not sound like much, but it's a large proportion of my cultural life down the drain, *and* a bunch of important documents I've used for research.
― emil.y, Friday, 13 January 2012 02:38 (twelve years ago) link
that's not what they're going for though. it's my understanding that they want to rewrite the basic technological infrastructure of the internet. it's like pointing at a house and saying "there's bad cabling that's permitting piracy under the floorboards and in the walls. we need to replace that cabling." to which anybody who is sane would reply "that would require destroying the whole house" to which SOPA supporters would reply "I don't care. there's bad cabling. we need to fix it."
― bob loblaw people (dayo), Friday, 13 January 2012 02:38 (twelve years ago) link
it would basically make the internet in the US be similar to internet in China, i.e. censored at the discretion of the US government.
― bob loblaw people (dayo), Friday, 13 January 2012 02:40 (twelve years ago) link
^^ what i'm really worried about
― lame adele rey (some dude), Friday, 13 January 2012 02:41 (twelve years ago) link
on the plus side it would limit access to gucci mane mixtapes, which is a good thing
― bob loblaw people (dayo), Friday, 13 January 2012 02:42 (twelve years ago) link
nah, those are free anyway bro
― Number None, Friday, 13 January 2012 02:42 (twelve years ago) link
are they doing this becuz i downloaded honkin' on bobo
i never had the guts to tell u i did it aero, i guess i was ashamed of myself
― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 13 January 2012 02:43 (twelve years ago) link
this country is turning into soviet russia, which incidentally is where bobo honks you
― lame adele rey (some dude), Friday, 13 January 2012 02:43 (twelve years ago) link
― bob loblaw people (dayo), Thursday, January 12, 2012 8:42 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
you're worse than hitler
― Sh1pley Gohard (D-40), Friday, 13 January 2012 02:45 (twelve years ago) link
but actually many gucci mixtapes were already removed from datpiff by his label
isnt the diff between us & china that corporations have to ask the government to censor us before we can be censored
― Sh1pley Gohard (D-40), Friday, 13 January 2012 02:46 (twelve years ago) link
rip Gucci mane mixtapes
― bob loblaw people (dayo), Friday, 13 January 2012 02:47 (twelve years ago) link
focus dayo focus
― Sh1pley Gohard (D-40), Friday, 13 January 2012 02:48 (twelve years ago) link
dayo it's almost like whenever we get a glimpse at a thread that might not go straight into this particular ditch you have grab the steering wheel and swerve us into it
― lame adele rey (some dude), Friday, 13 January 2012 02:50 (twelve years ago) link
all roads lead to gucci mane
― bob loblaw people (dayo), Friday, 13 January 2012 02:53 (twelve years ago) link
its very important to me that i be able to grab chicken talk from the cloud at any time for the forseeable future
im jus sayin
― Sh1pley Gohard (D-40), Friday, 13 January 2012 02:56 (twelve years ago) link
the only thing available for free download will be the dozen or so new albums by the weeknd coming out every year.
― omar little, Friday, 13 January 2012 03:03 (twelve years ago) link
Free azealia banks tracks for some; miniature american flags for others
― Sh1pley Gohard (D-40), Friday, 13 January 2012 03:07 (twelve years ago) link
― emil.y, Friday, 13 January 2012 02:38 (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
kind of curious about this -- seems like it would mean that the more flagrantly copyright-violating stuff would have to go, sure, but i don't know if that stuff is the same stuff as the stuff that constitutes its value as an archive. in an ideal world it would result in goldsmith spending more time on actual archival and less time tweeting that he's found a file with the complete lacan seminars in e-reader form
― thomp, Friday, 13 January 2012 03:10 (twelve years ago) link
(but i'm not entirely sure in what form the thread SOPA entails would manifest -- i was under the impression that copyright owners could order stuff to be taken down already, and i'm not sure what extra weight SOPA adds to this threat)
― thomp, Friday, 13 January 2012 03:12 (twelve years ago) link
http://ubu.com/images/beckett_header_sopa2.jpg
― thomp, Friday, 13 January 2012 03:13 (twelve years ago) link
exactly, the government is powerless against a country full of 14 year old nerds with ridiculous amounts of spare time
― frogbs, Friday, 13 January 2012 03:16 (twelve years ago) link
File-sharing will keep happening whatever they do. If they want to stop most of the file-sharing, they need to work together to exploit the medium that consumers have exploited in their absence.
This is a hell of a lot more about control imo – control of so many of the artists who would manage perfectly well without them.
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Friday, 13 January 2012 03:21 (twelve years ago) link
Oh so what happens if SOPA passes? People will continue to nick stuff off the internet. If that fails, they'll carve new grooves into the internet and share through those. If that fails, they'll set up local gatherings and swap hard drives. I have soooo much more to say on this btw.
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Friday, 13 January 2012 03:23 (twelve years ago) link
i mean, when Windows XP had that whole "YOUR COPY IS NOT GENUINE" thing that dicked over a bunch of people (regardless of whether or not their copy was legit) it took all of 6 hours before articles went online detailing how to get around it. and Microsoft probably had this technology in development for YEARS.
― frogbs, Friday, 13 January 2012 03:26 (twelve years ago) link
But I think the one thing that will happen, whether SOPA passes or not, is that a company with a clue about what drives people to consume (e.g. Apple) will devise a way for people to do so that's so easy, clean and affordable that 99% of people will use it rather than scrape the darknet for a decent copy xp
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Friday, 13 January 2012 03:27 (twelve years ago) link
Socialist Party of Azania (South Africa)Student Oral Proficiency Assessment Society of Professional Archeologists Synchronous-Orbit Particle Analyzer Standard Operating Procedure Amplified (aviation) Safety Office of Policy Analysis (City of Denver) Supporters of the Performing Arts, Inc. (Estes Park, CO, USA) senior officer present afloat (USN) (US DoD) Space-Only Power Allocation Supporters of Performing Arts Selanik Ozel Pedagoji Akademisi Salinas Owners and Pilots Association (Salinas, CA) Southern Oregon Photographic Association (Medford, OR) State of the Province Address (various locations) Stop Online Piracy Act School of Physics and Astronomy (various locations) School of Public Affairs (various locations) South of Pandosy Street (area in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada)
― buzza, Friday, 13 January 2012 03:32 (twelve years ago) link
Anything with any user-generated content is going to be potentially screwed, surely.http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/12/13/how-sopa-will-hurt-the-free-web-and-wikipedia/
― kinder, Friday, 13 January 2012 03:43 (twelve years ago) link
It would give them power that they might not use, but of course that's not the point. They shouldn't have that power in the first place, especially when it's 100% about propping up a industry bloated by a century of physical media and regional distribution.
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Friday, 13 January 2012 03:48 (twelve years ago) link
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Thursday, January 12, 2012 9:27 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
you say this, but in the CD era there was nothing to keep them from pushing the price point up to 20 bucks for a shitty CD
― Sh1pley Gohard (D-40), Friday, 13 January 2012 05:53 (twelve years ago) link
if this happens, I'm going to send every member of the MPAA/RIAA unique snapshots of my dick every day for one year.
they should come around in about a week, tops
― Neanderthal, Friday, 13 January 2012 13:16 (twelve years ago) link
A Sheffield student can be extradited to the US to face copyright infringement allegations, a judge has ruled.Richard O'Dwyer, 23, set up the TVShack website which US authorities say hosts links to pirated copyrighted films and television programmes.The Sheffield Hallam University student lost his case in a hearing at Westminster Magistrates' Court.If found guilty in a US court he could face up to five years in jail.Mr O'Dwyer's lawyer, Ben Cooper, indicated during the hearing that he would appeal against the ruling.Mr Cooper said the website did not store copyright material itself and merely directed users to other sites, making it similar to Google.He also argued that his client, who would be the first British citizen to be extradited for such an offence, was being used as a "guinea pig" for copyright law in the US.But District Judge Quentin Purdy ruled the extradition could go ahead.Mr O'Dwyer's mother, Julia O'Dwyer, from Chesterfield, has described the moves by US authorities as "beyond belief" and described Britain's extradition treaty with the United States as "rotten".Speaking before the hearing, Mr O'Dwyer said he was "surprised" when police officers from the UK and America seized equipment at his home in South Yorkshire in November 2010.However, no criminal charges followed from the UK authorities.The case was brought by the US Customs and Border Protection agency, which claims that the TVShack.net website earned "over $230,000 in advertising revenue" before US authorities obtained a warrant and seized the domain name.
Richard O'Dwyer, 23, set up the TVShack website which US authorities say hosts links to pirated copyrighted films and television programmes.
The Sheffield Hallam University student lost his case in a hearing at Westminster Magistrates' Court.
If found guilty in a US court he could face up to five years in jail.
Mr O'Dwyer's lawyer, Ben Cooper, indicated during the hearing that he would appeal against the ruling.
Mr Cooper said the website did not store copyright material itself and merely directed users to other sites, making it similar to Google.
He also argued that his client, who would be the first British citizen to be extradited for such an offence, was being used as a "guinea pig" for copyright law in the US.
But District Judge Quentin Purdy ruled the extradition could go ahead.
Mr O'Dwyer's mother, Julia O'Dwyer, from Chesterfield, has described the moves by US authorities as "beyond belief" and described Britain's extradition treaty with the United States as "rotten".
Speaking before the hearing, Mr O'Dwyer said he was "surprised" when police officers from the UK and America seized equipment at his home in South Yorkshire in November 2010.
However, no criminal charges followed from the UK authorities.
The case was brought by the US Customs and Border Protection agency, which claims that the TVShack.net website earned "over $230,000 in advertising revenue" before US authorities obtained a warrant and seized the domain name.
― Jimmy Riddle Orchestra (Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker), Friday, 13 January 2012 16:31 (twelve years ago) link
Ubuweb have been tweeting about how they'll surely go down if it passes. Which might not sound like much, but it's a large proportion of my cultural life down the drain, *and* a bunch of important documents I've used for research.― emil.y, Friday, 13 January 2012 02:38 (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalinkkind of curious about this -- seems like it would mean that the more flagrantly copyright-violating stuff would have to go, sure, but i don't know if that stuff is the same stuff as the stuff that constitutes its value as an archive. in an ideal world it would result in goldsmith spending more time on actual archival and less time tweeting that he's found a file with the complete lacan seminars in e-reader form― thomp, Thursday, January 12, 2012 10:10 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink(but i'm not entirely sure in what form the thread SOPA entails would manifest -- i was under the impression that copyright owners could order stuff to be taken down already, and i'm not sure what extra weight SOPA adds to this threat)― thomp, Thursday, January 12, 2012 10:12 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
― thomp, Thursday, January 12, 2012 10:10 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― thomp, Thursday, January 12, 2012 10:12 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
right now under DMCA, copyright holders can ask for individual infringing things to be removed
under SOPA the way I understand it if there is one infringing file on a large site the entire website could get taken down w/o notice and replaced by
http://itlounge.eu/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/0f470__sopa-notice-470-75.jpg
― dmr, Friday, 13 January 2012 18:06 (twelve years ago) link
LOL
― Do you know what the secret of comity is? (Michael White), Friday, 13 January 2012 18:15 (twelve years ago) link
A Sheffield student can be extradited to the US to face copyright infringement allegations, a judge has ruled.
This elicited a resounding "well DUH" from me.
― Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Friday, 13 January 2012 18:19 (twelve years ago) link
Ha this is sure to be the PR boost that Big Business needs to keep the plebes from hurling large cans of tomato paste at CEOsk heads...
― incredible shrinking man on euphonium (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 13 January 2012 19:17 (twelve years ago) link
Can't they hurl large cans of lima beans? I'm not as partial to lima beans.
― Do you know what the secret of comity is? (Michael White), Friday, 13 January 2012 19:20 (twelve years ago) link
yeah but the market has collapsed now. totally different era & you can't compare imo
― unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 13 January 2012 19:24 (twelve years ago) link
thank god VanityVEVO will still be on youtube
― tanuki, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 18:27 (twelve years ago) link
"YOU just copied someone else's CUNT tent"
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 18:47 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.salon.com/2012/01/31/where_does_the_anti_sopa_movement_go_next/singleton/
The James Boyle article he links to is incredibly inspiring, epiphanies per page
― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:02 (twelve years ago) link
Wait is UMG asserting copyright over the ATS beat itself or just over the track with Yelawolf rapping over it?
― Kevin Love and Ricky Rubio ARE: Timblr Whites (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:31 (twelve years ago) link
The beat itself iirc
― i love pinfold cricket (gbx), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:32 (twelve years ago) link
oh nm it says that
― Kevin Love and Ricky Rubio ARE: Timblr Whites (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:32 (twelve years ago) link
probably just automated waveform detection. in a related case:
http://generationbass.com/2011/02/02/a-turk-and-a-killer-on-a-soundcloud/
1 - Gonjasufi & Gaslamp Killer put out an album with a lot of barely-altered loops from classic Turkish psychedelic rock2 - Warp does not clear any samples, nor credit the originals3 - Someone familiar with Turkish psyche uploads a mix with the originals to Soundcloud, beautiful & well researched4 - The Gonjasufi version is so identical to the Erkin Koray original that it triggers the auto-waveform detection5 - Warp serves Soundcloud with copyright infringement on their property
― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 21:13 (twelve years ago) link
these people don't need any more power than they already have
holy shit ^
― Mordy, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 22:49 (twelve years ago) link
Hah I just did a search for one of my videos that was removed ("Count 2.6" by Pate) and found that nme.com had linked to it for some reason.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 22:52 (twelve years ago) link
if that story about warp is true, i hope they get their fucking ass handed to them on a platter for that shit
― fitzroy institution (electricsound), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 23:25 (twelve years ago) link
Well its definitely true that Gonjasufi used a fuckload of barely tweaked samples without clearing or crediting any of them.
― Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 01:15 (twelve years ago) link
major labels are frequently guilty of publishing uncleared samples from indie labels / eastern pop; up until now, few minor labels are big enough to sue them. the new development is an internet environment that allows major labels to make the originals disappear. and they don't even mean to; it's an automated process -- based on the assumption that the major labels own whatever they say they do. so passing legislation that lets labels bypass the courts / government / any arbitration whatsoever seems like a really bad idea
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 02:17 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/sopa-hollywood-gop-piracy-286648
not sure i buy the envisioned future of republicans as ip reformers, but it is sort of interesting
― lag∞n, Friday, 3 February 2012 00:36 (twelve years ago) link
This is not about music but there's no better thread:
http://au.gamespot.com/news/ubisoft-drm-games-to-be-temporarily-unplayable-6349732
Publisher's antipiracy scheme will prevent customers from playing some of its Mac and PC games for an undetermined period of time during server transition starting February 7.
― Wub wub wub wubwubwubwub wub Pzzzzzzz WUBB wubwub (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 3 February 2012 20:22 (twelve years ago) link
but the pirates wont have any downtime at all. Way to treat your paying customers.
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Friday, 3 February 2012 20:31 (twelve years ago) link
Despite widespread opposition to SOPA from bloggers on the left, http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/sopa-hollywood-gop-piracy-286648
― lag∞n, Friday, February 3, 2012 12:36 AM (19 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I was fairly shocked when I read the 'for' and 'against' SOPA columns. For: Reid, Pelosi, Boxer, Franken, etc. etc. etc. -- Against: Bachmann, Paul, Issa, etc -- tea party central. Not mainstream republicans like Boehner but all the radical right who are ready to drum up self-righteous anger at the drop of a hat. So the article you posted actually seems to have it right: MPAA assumed Republican support and spent all their time courting / buying off the Democrats, and by the time they started publically reprimanding Democrats for not staying bought off, it had actually become a full on political win for the right
― Milton Parker, Friday, 3 February 2012 20:41 (twelve years ago) link
yeah ur right, i guess what i was taking issue w/is the idea that this is the beginning of a trend, cause you know theres nothing republicans love more than big business and the status quo
― lag∞n, Friday, 3 February 2012 20:46 (twelve years ago) link
but i would love to be proven wrong!
Wow @ that Ubisoft thing, thats completely fucked.
― Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 3 February 2012 20:48 (twelve years ago) link
it's perfect really
― Wie wol ich bin der vogel has noch den erfret mich das (forksclovetofu), Friday, 3 February 2012 21:05 (twelve years ago) link
― lag∞n, Friday, February 3, 2012 8:46 PM (41 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
all the companies with internet-realist business models are anti-SOPA. the Republicans are still big business; but they're seeing a new status quo rising up and they're betting on the teams that are clearly going to win
― Milton Parker, Friday, 3 February 2012 21:34 (twelve years ago) link
There, now you've made Cary Sherman cry, you horrible people:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/08/opinion/what-wikipedia-wont-tell-you.html
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 17:48 (twelve years ago) link
As it happens, the television networks that actively supported SOPA and PIPA didn’t take advantage of their broadcast credibility to press their case. That’s partly because “old media” draws a line between “news” and “editorial.” Apparently, Wikipedia and Google don’t recognize the ethical boundary between the neutral reporting of information and the presentation of editorial opinion as fact.
― Wub wub wub wubwubwubwub wub Pzzzzzzz WUBB wubwub (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 20:01 (twelve years ago) link
“old media” draws a line between “news” and “editorial.”“old media” draws a line between “news” and “editorial.”“old media” draws a line between “news” and “editorial.”“old media” draws a line between “news” and “editorial.”“old media” draws a line between “news” and “editorial.”“old media” draws a line between “news” and “editorial.”
― Wub wub wub wubwubwubwub wub Pzzzzzzz WUBB wubwub (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 20:02 (twelve years ago) link
The hyperbolic mistruths, presented on the home pages of some of the world’s most popular Web sites, amounted to an abuse of trust and a misuse of power.
― Wub wub wub wubwubwubwub wub Pzzzzzzz WUBB wubwub (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 20:15 (twelve years ago) link
lmfao at "broadcast credibility"
― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 20:23 (twelve years ago) link
fileserve has quietly gone back up, it seems
― Not only dermatologists hate her (James Morrison), Sunday, 12 February 2012 09:07 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0n09wyQwWk
― lag∞n affiliated (The Reverend), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 18:37 (twelve years ago) link
what a creep
― dave coolier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 18:41 (twelve years ago) link
I just love the fact that he actually existed and lived his life
― iatee, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 18:42 (twelve years ago) link
I think it would make an amazing movie
― iatee, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 18:43 (twelve years ago) link
― Milton Parker, Friday, February 3, 2012 12:41 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark
this is kind of fascinating. i'm imagining a future republican party that's dominated by "real conservative" values of the sort that nonreligious conservatives love to tout: personal freedom, free enterprise, free internets, darwinian competition in all things, no handouts. opposed to this is a democratic party that advocates limited freedoms and federal oversight/assistance in the name of social justice and "decency", and which counts on the altruistic sympathies of religious leaders.
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 18:55 (twelve years ago) link
iatee otm
― lag∞n affiliated (The Reverend), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 20:01 (twelve years ago) link
― Little GTFO (contenderizer),
I believe that is the correct prediction for how the Third American Party System is going to be, just a matter of time for it to all play out. IMO we are in the death throes of the Second Party System.
― #1 Inspector Spacetime Fanboy (Viceroy), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 20:45 (twelve years ago) link
i.e. the two main parties will basically be Libertarian-lite and Christian Democrat.
― #1 Inspector Spacetime Fanboy (Viceroy), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 20:46 (twelve years ago) link
blech sorry, I didn't realize we were already up to the Fourth Party System so disregard my terminology... fucking poli-sci...
― #1 Inspector Spacetime Fanboy (Viceroy), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 20:51 (twelve years ago) link
Were it so? In the Anglo-American two party system we still adhere to, the two poles must contain multitudes. The multitudes are shifting generationally but should I live another forty years I would love to see the attritional demise of the 'conservative' wing of the Right (they will be outnumbered ethnically for one thing) but I don't even pray that there will be a Christian Democrat party of any interest. The libertarians and Xtiansists have tried to square the circle w/the Gospel and Mammonism for long enough but it cannot last.
― le ralliement du doute et de l'erreur (Michael White), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 20:58 (twelve years ago) link
well you have to take into account that I don't know what I'm talking about but giving my opinions nonetheless...
― #1 Inspector Spacetime Fanboy (Viceroy), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 21:01 (twelve years ago) link
Do we have an ACTA thread?
― le ralliement du doute et de l'erreur (Michael White), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 21:01 (twelve years ago) link
http://hagenspan.com/NYMHall/players/A/ManAct.jpg
― The Large Hardon Collider (Phil D.), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 21:03 (twelve years ago) link
So as of today, RIP my most used shared-content site of the last half-year or so, library.nu. Also RIP ifile.it. Supposedly both casualties of an operation by a German association of publishers.
― Axolotl with an Atlatl (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 16 February 2012 01:13 (twelve years ago) link
Stuff going down in the UK too Users warned of 10 years in jail as RnBXclusive.com shut down by police
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Thursday, 16 February 2012 01:49 (twelve years ago) link
my man Kirby just finished part 4 of Everything Is A Remix and it's the best one yet
http://gizmodo.com/5885644/everything-thats-wrong-with-patent-and-copyright-laws-in-one-brilliant-video
thinking of the Anti-SOPA contingent in the Tea Party; when Kirby pulls up an image of the aged Copyright Act of 1790, it really does strike me how this issue should go right across both party lines
― Milton Parker, Friday, 17 February 2012 18:58 (twelve years ago) link
Apparently, Anonymous will try to shut the whole internet down on March 31st.
http://pastebin.com/XZ3EGsbc
― HO WBEAUTIFUL IS THE GENTLYFALLINGBLOOD? (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, 19 February 2012 15:53 (twelve years ago) link
Anonymous is getting sloppy - its pretty obvious to me a better date would be the Ides of March rather than a date with no symbolic significance.
― #1 Inspector Spacetime Fanboy (Viceroy), Sunday, 19 February 2012 16:41 (twelve years ago) link
on a weekend? c'moooooonnnn
― little clouds of citrus spritz as i peel (forksclovetofu), Monday, 20 February 2012 17:14 (twelve years ago) link
Angus Batey on Mr. Dotcom:
http://www.thestoolpigeon.co.uk/features/auf-wiedersehen-prat-kim-dotcom-interview.html
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 19:00 (twelve years ago) link
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/02/26/2141246/youtube-identifies-birdsong-as-copyrighted-music
― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 01:44 (twelve years ago) link
seeing a lot more of these lately
In response to a complaint we received under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have removed 1 result(s) from this page. If you wish, you may read the DMCA complaint that caused the removal(s) at ChillingEffects.org.
― flopson, Sunday, 6 May 2012 01:35 (eleven years ago) link