http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16757142 Negotiations over a controversial anti-piracy agreement have been described as a "masquerade" by a key Euro MP. Kader Arif, the European Parliament's rapporteur for the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (Acta), resigned over the issue on Friday. He said he had witnessed…
This. Honestly. Naturally, there is a percentage of people that use Megaupload for legit file transfers. Albeit a small percentage. Let's be honest here, MegaUpload and Rapidshare are two of the most archaic, simpleton, and out in the open ways to pirate any form of digital media. We all know it. Sites like this should be…
Just another step down the road our country has been taking of assuming people are guilty until proven innocent. It seems to be all the rage nowadays. Nobody is even talking about Guantanamo and its ilk anymore. "Terrorists" being guilty until proven innocent is pretty much accepted now. Then it seems like "Pirates" are up…
I want the government to either get its shit together and right itself in a big way (not very likely) or continue down this path of total detachment of the will of the people, screwing over the public so much that a revolution is inevitable. So in regards to SOPA, i say bring it on, and all kinds of terrible horse shit…
Yes, it can work like that; but more often than not, DDoS'ing is being done by thousands of individuals in addition to those methods. Flooding the servers with traffic, crashing them temporarily. Personal information for all the SOPA supporters has also been released, and Anonymous has announced that they are going to take…
^Exactly. Look around, half of the reason we're in this mess of a world is due to apathy and instead focusing on issues which no one in their right mind would even do. Do you think Fish Companies and Logging Companies are stupid enough to let their respective resources run out? Of course not, because they rely on that,…
Fishy fishy fishy. I understand the argument against piracy and copyright infringement, but I have lost all confidence in my government's ability to target actual criminals without leaving the process open to massive corruption and abuse. In fact, as I've learned alot about the USA in the past three months, I'd speak to…
Of course, Every anonymous derp will arise from the cut to try and fight the higher power instead of doing it the fair and square way. Im extremely worried about this though it feels like The world will turn out like those one scenes in movies where people are wearing extremely tight and silver/white spandex and Google has…
There's not a great deal to be done JFletcher, there's this: http://black-march.com/ it isn't getting much coverage obviously, and it'll be an inconvenience at best. Whatever shall happen, our western nation governments, in league with the corporations are totally out of all democratic control and have been for a long…
I've just looked up some of the ACTA stuff about Europe, and it seems they have been negotiating about this matter for quite some time now (3 years or so?) and the European Parliament is demanding more transparency about the matter, before comitting to the regulation. They have demanded more transparency earlier as well…