rt.com — After a Department of Justice-executed raid today on the file sharing site Megaupload, hackers aligned with the online collective Anonymous have shut down the websites for both the DoJ and Universal Music Group, the largest record company in America.
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mobberJan 20, 2012
until the government knows more about the internet than these guys, maybe they should leave it alone... these are the exact people they should be consulting with when it comes to SOPA. at least consult with Google, Amazon, & other big CEOs that knows it's not a series of tubes.
it shouldn't be a bunch of rich old out of touch white guys handling these decisions.
MrFrogyJan 20, 2012
Nerd rage, when directed at the people who deserve it, is a beautiful thing!
therelentlessmomJan 20, 2012
I totally agree!
wrekoniz3Jan 20, 2012
You said it Brotha! :D
ieatskunkJan 20, 2012
No need to consult with criminals, ever.
extremephobiaJan 20, 2012
Am I mistaken in believing that the best security experts are the criminals? Maybe you're right, though. If we can find out what our vulnerabilities are, we should just leave them open rather than taint ourselves by associating with these criminal heathens.
ieatskunkJan 20, 2012
In movies, ya, criminals are the experts. In real life, the experts are people formally educated on the subject.
Before you throw your support behind these guys remember that they likely conducted their attacks using unsuspecting user's comps, maybe even yours. That cool with you?Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
rileykaJan 20, 2012
Yes, Yes it is.
hendo420Jan 20, 2012
I'm all for helping take these scumbags down.Fight the power.
jftitanJan 20, 2012
Oh how clueless you really are.
DID YOU KNOW: One of Ebay's top Security advisors was one the hackers that took Ebay down a notch.
So in your point of view, Ebay should have never hired the guy who took them down a notch, because the 'hacker' was just a plain ole criminal.
DID YOU KNOW: Kevin Mitnick wasn't a criminal in what he did with his knowledge of the telephone systems. Also what Kevin Mitnick did also staged the laws and examples we have today for security measures.
DID YOU KNOW: The most common exploit to a companies network is in due fault with User Error.
You just can't make more laws to cover the 'criminals' when the laws already exist. (you already defined criminal in circumstances.) You have to just make the punishments harsher? No, because you already defined the examples.
As for the case of security auditors. Would i trust the "Honest" consultants over the 'previously dishonest' consultants? I would f**king trust the only person with the experience to do the job right.
And in this day in age, I barely trust the greenhorns (The newly minted Certs, just graduated from some school in technical studies, I have no actual work experience, but I chose this career because the ad on tv said it makes so much money) than I would trust the criminal who went to jail for successfully pulling off his job. Then getting caught because he spent the money, or failed to pay taxes. I kid you not, I would hire that person in the beginning no mater what. Because THAT guy, has the proven eye/experience to see things that some greenhorn can't even comprehend in the first place.
This example goes into computer hobbyists that call themselves Computer Repair Professionals. Charging underdog rates.
I've met more 'formally educated' dumbasses in the IT field that make more mistakes because of their actual level of understanding the field they work in. I had a 'IT' boss who was a glorified business major, tell me his certification as a MCSE (expired) made him more qualified to know about 'the network' at the office than my MCSA cert. He failed to realize I spent more than half my life learning and working with computers, than his failed 4 years of 'experimenting' through college, made my knowledge more valuable than him.
When s**t would break, he would blame everything but the 'in your face' problem. (If the Internet was down, he would blame Microsoft, and the ISP, when all along if the outdated ISDN modem would have been reset or updated, the issues the office kept experiencing would go away. After I successfully performed some 'hacking' tricks to identify the cause of the sporatic network outages, Through my beginner level-criminal activity, I would have never figured out the issues.
Again at that time, I was only certified in a MCSA working towards going to college, with years of dealing with MSDOS all the way up to NT4.0 and then Win95. The boss only had a MSCE 4.0 cert which had expired, but ho prior experience with anything else through his college experience.
Who would you bet would be a better candidate at resolving or being the expert in Computers, The man with a Cert and Collage (in a different field), or the guy who spent a large portion of his life studying Computers, and is continuing to acquire certs and degrees in the future?
/rant
No need to answer, I made the rant clear enough I hope. But again. Not all cases the 'Professionals' are the guys to speak to. I sometimes think even IT CEOs are too far out of touch with whats really happening in IT. So I would even venture to say, The Experts aren't even the CEOs or CTOs. Talk to the actual engineers.
OH BUT FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY, DO NOT LET ENGINEERS WORK IN MARKETING. ENGINEERS CANT NAME s**t, NICE FOR CONSUMERS.
Motorola is an example. Great engineering/design, bad product naming skills
ieatskunkJan 20, 2012
There are certainly exceptions. Someone who was f**king with Facebook was ultimately hired by them for security too. But the majority of people with a knack for it go into the field legitimately from the start.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
dustinthewind2Jan 20, 2012
That is cool with me, yes. Anything I can do to help fight censorship, because that's what they are fighting against. And so should we all.
juliochavezJan 21, 2012
Yah cool! I wouldn't mind my computer being linked to an attack on the FBI either!! Good luck explaining how you didn't know about it from your cell in Gitmo. The morale of the story is: Don't ever be cool with someone anonymous taking control of your computer, even if it is for street justice, which is awesome.
dustinthewind2Jan 21, 2012
Doubt I'd be explaining anything, but if I were, I wouldn't be the only one. It would be obvious I had nothing to do with it.
And Gitmo? Really? That where they are hiding George Hotz?
That's just a tad paranoid.
"He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither" (yeah, that was Ben Franklin).
chadpyleJan 26, 2012
"Good luck explaining how you didn't know about it from your cell in Gitmo."
Gitmo is so last year - the government can indefinitely detain us right here at home now. And they say Congress can't get anything done...
dustinthewind2Jan 26, 2012
Ron Paul is fighting it, but government loves to ignore him.
BluntzworthJan 26, 2012
LOL - do you know what Casinos do to people who successfully scam them? They are hired to become security consultants.
"In movies" Try the real world.
chadpyleJan 26, 2012
Yes! Anon, please make yourselves at home. I don't have hacking skills but, my processing power and bandwidth is at your disposal. For liberty!
mobberJan 20, 2012
the criminals you refer to are average people downloading copywritten material. kids downloading songs. people uploading youtube videos with material that belong to others...
'hacktivists' aren't necessary criminals. they are reacting to actions taken by the wrong people.
politicians who support prohibition support organized crime. voting for them is like voting for a mob boss.
they created/voted on these bill because of pressure from entertainment industry. follow the money. again, they are focused on bills protecting the wrong people.
used to, they'd protect average people from time to time & bills like this would not stick out like a sore thumb. ignore us, bicker like school children getting their way, & this is what you get.
ieatskunkJan 20, 2012
No, the crimiinals are the ones attacking the DoJ's website. People downloading music or movies have nothing to do with it, aside from being the motive behind the attacks.
The real issue here is that the "Hollywood" needs to accept that file sharing is a fact and it isnt going anywhere. The sooner they accept it the sooner they can adapt and profit from it.
iclavdivsJan 20, 2012
One man's criminal is another's freedom fighter.
pabloz1Jan 26, 2012
You're right!!! Need to throw out corporations and politicians. They are the REAL criminals!
whipnetJan 20, 2012
White guys? The Attorney General is black. (??)
xpsiterJan 20, 2012
+1, but I think they were just directing at the ever-present stereotypical lawmaker.
mobberJan 20, 2012
i'm sure there are females too... there's not enough of either.
duggeddownJan 20, 2012
I agree but sometimes, why are people always quick to reach a conclusion before understanding why? The feds were sniffing the megaupload email server for years before this raid. The conversation you see between the CEO and the staff is pretty alarming.. See page 30.. http://www.scribd.com/doc/78786408/Mega-Indictment
ajh16Jan 20, 2012
Thanks for the great information. That does seem to make a pretty strong case that the take down (of MegaUploads) was completely legit. That's unfortunate since download.com has gotten to be crappy now with their bundled installer. Anyone know any good, legit download sites at this point that actually take anti-piracy measures seriously?
empirenineJan 20, 2012
Kudos to you for researching this further. And while I agree that they were breaking the law, what annoys me is that the US government is going abroad to arrest citizens of other countries. Very scary precedent here.
favuquadJan 20, 2012
Breaking the law is the least of whats wrong here! Comporations, Federal Gov. and GOP are destroying, creating and bending laws, now thats whats really wrong with this picture!
jmondsterJan 20, 2012
Why do all old, rich, out-of-touch, people have to be white? I agree with the rest of the statement though..
dustinthewind2Jan 20, 2012
Therein lies the problem... it's always going to be rich old white guys who think they know what they're doing, trampling our freedoms.
Think what you want about Anonymous, but I think they've become a needed tool against these idiots. They can get the Fed's attention like nothing else could. How much do you think the Feds care about a protest or people angrily blogging? But being embarrassed like this? Maybe they'll think twice next time.
Maybe.
smackertJan 20, 2012Submitter
Cant believe after 5 years I finally got a story seen by more than 5 people, above 20 diggs, and onto the front page without selling my soul to MrBabyMan. Maybe Digg does work?
UncleRuckuJan 20, 2012
Whatever happened to "Innocent till proven guilty?"
Just as YouTube or Vimeo does. MegaUpload offers to remove any copyright protected content off their servers, provided that the complainant can provide proof of either ownership or license to the protected content.
dauntless1Jan 20, 2012
Anybody who has read SOPA or PIPA know that there is no need for proof, justice or ANY rule of law. It will all be in the hands of the businesses willing to buy the rights.
meribianJan 20, 2012
Buy the rights? How bizarre!
extremephobiaJan 20, 2012
You mean the SOPA and PIPA that didn't get past? The greatest corruption of the American Legal system isn't that the politicians have been bought but that the politicians themselves have managed to convince the people that it's broken and there is nothing we can do to stop it.
I think the "people" showed the government the other day that the lies we've been fed aren't true and that if we still want this government, it can be ours.
briancomptonJan 20, 2012
God, how I hope you are right.
extremephobiaJan 22, 2012
I appreciate the sentiment but hoping our politicians can do the right thing is what started all this. Politicians have always been leaders in this country since the founding fathers set up our system of government as a republic. The idea was that the people weren't smart enough to govern themselves but should still have a say.
I think the problem we have now is that, while politicians are still smart, they aren't smarter than the people by any significant amount (if at all and, in some unfortunate cases, certainly not.) It's just time that the people start exerting their will and intelligence on their representatives. It's time for us to make the change from a republic with a government full of leaders to a republic that simply represents the people. The average person doesn't have the time to deal with nuances of law making and budgeting. certainly not for the entire country and certainly not when they are trying to be productive in their own lives. And that's what we need our congress for.
However, the world is so complex that we have people who understand society and economics trying to make laws about the openness of the internet and things of that nature. We need more dynamic politicians. I don't mean that they need to study computer sciences or things like that but we need our politicians to know people besides other politicians. We need politicians who are at least good friends with people in scientific and technological fields, if not have them on their staff for advisement.
Course, where we'll get that money, who knows. Cut out a political adviser. If you show me that you can make intelligent decisions, I'll take you over the bloke who can speak well any day.
yoz420Jan 22, 2012
Yes! We can fix it once for all. The political will is there, we just need to get behind the right solution. Get money out of politics!
Call your congressman and demand Fair Elections Now! http://fairelectionsnow.org/
paintballer747Jan 20, 2012
Absolutely agreed with the both of you. The unlawfulness and hypocrisy of the American legal system these days really puts us to shame. As if having no real culture of our own, being degraded to an AA credit rating, and being known as "the bully" and the world's "fattest" nation by other countries wasn't enough, we compromise the only thing that was ever ours; democracy. And so we begin our descent to a totalitarian government, just like Orwell predicted.
yoz420Jan 20, 2012
Large industries will keep coming. This SOPA/PIPA is just a blip, there were similar acts before (E.g.: DMCA), and there is more to come. They will try to stop anything that threatens them: technology, innovation, creativity, freedom. They are able to do this for one core reason: they fund political campaigns. The Fair Elections Now act (http://fairelectionsnow.org/) is the quickest solution. I started a petition (http://wh.gov/BmZ) yesterday to try and get it mentioned in the State of the Union. Please help us get more attention to this issue.
atropus32Jan 20, 2012
It's not that these things 'threaten them'. They are used to illegaly share their content. When you accept that notion the rest becomes clearer. You will then see they don't get this kind of acdtion because they fund political campaigns but because there is an onus on governmen to enfroce the law.
bobbi21Jan 20, 2012
and guns are used to illegally kill people. cars are used to illegally transport money from a bank heist. Doesn't mean we ban all guns and cars.
Crime rates in Newark are pretty high. That doesn't mean we arrest everyone in newark without trial.
Yes there is illegal sharing of content. 1) the illegality should be questioned but isn't due to political campaign funding and ignorance of the internet as a medium 2) correlation between sharing and loss of profits has not been shown which also weakens the point that it should be illegal.
This is the same arguments that happened with cassettes and VHS. Opened the way for tons of "illegal" sharing but companies just decided to stop fighting it and now we have stuff like tivo :P While I agree acts like file sharing are illegal now and doing it despite the law isn't really the best way to introduce the world to a new medium, it is the fastest way to get change and overall has been pretty painless for everyone involved in the past.
ieatskunkJan 20, 2012
i agree and i like the guns and cars analogy.
yoz420Jan 20, 2012
The law is a changeable set of rules, not eternally set in stone. Any particular law can be just or unjust, fair or unfair. My point is that big industry advocates will not stop at anything to create laws that give them an advantage. If they could pass a law that forced people to watch their advertising, they would. If they could pass a law that prohibited competition in their field, they would. If they could pass a law that would cause the government to kill people to force them to buy their products, they would. Any one of those things could be made into law.
I believe that laws should protect civil society and individual liberty, not the interest of big business. I believe that big business has too much influence on our government, and that influence is destroying America. Big business should not be signing the politician's campaign checks.
I hope you are convinced that this is an issue and that we, the people, need elections to be fair.
briancomptonJan 20, 2012
ooooh, "illegal". Jeebus says that's naughty, right?
briancomptonJan 20, 2012
We can't have people breaking the rules written by greater humans for the lesser, now can we? Might lead to things like free thinking, or worse, actual FREEDOM! NEVER IN MY COUNTRY!
duggeddownJan 20, 2012
Yeah but what if you promoted piracy on your own site? See email logs between CEO and staff worker in the indictment report (the feds were sniffing their email servers for years).
On or about April 23, 2009, DOTCOM sent an e-mail message to VANDER KOLK, ORTMANN, and BENCKO in which he complained about the deletion of URLlinks in response to infringement notices from the copyright holders. In the message, DOTCOMstated that “I told you many times not to delete links that are reported in batches of thousandsfrom insignificant sources. I would say that those infringement reports from MEXICO of “14,000” links would fall into that category. And the fact that we lost significant revenuebecause of it justifies my reaction.”
On or about April 24, 2009, DOTCOM sent an e-mail to BENCKO,ORTMANN, and VAN DER KOLK indicating, “I remembered the steep drop of revenue at thesame time in 2008 and thought that this might have also been caused by careless mass link deletions. This made me very mad, especially because I told you that such mass deletions shouldbe prevented and sources checked much more carefully. I am sure such mass link deletions arealso contributing to a drop of revenue … In the future please do not delete thousands of links atones from a single source unless it comes from a major organization in the US
source: http://www.scribd.com/doc/78786408/Mega-Indictment
ajh16Jan 20, 2012
http://www.scribd.com/doc/78786408/Mega-Indictment
Take a look at the evidence in the indictment (around page 30 mostly). It is pretty damning. They were deliberately keeping files they knew were copyrighted on their servers with the intent to profit from their presence. I have to agree that merits a take down of the site even if I personally loved the legitimate services that Megauploads provided.
yoz420Jan 20, 2012
The problem is these companies are paying for politicians and they own the government. They can keep pushing these awful laws. We need to build on the outrage over SOPA and get that changed. Support the Fair Elections Now act. Please sign this White House petition: http://wh.gov/BmZ
briancomptonJan 20, 2012
BINGO!
auditortuxJan 20, 2012
Yes, because restricting donations will only make things better... how about unlimited donations but full disclosure?
And any organization wishing to run an ad against/for a candidate must make the same disclosures about all of its own contributors.
Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
juliochavezJan 21, 2012
Unlimited donations but full disclosure wont work because the campaign with the most money will still win most of the time. Candidates for POTUS should be placed on a level playing field.
auditortuxJan 21, 2012
See, I disagree. Just because you could flood the airwaves doesn't really mean much. Maybe I'm a firm believer that free speech should rule. And its not like one party has a monopoly on campaign contributions.
But if I decide that I want to spend my fortune to get someone elected, it should be my decision alone. I might waste everything for naught... because maybe there is someone richer than me that can match everything I spend instead of a single night out.
yoz420Jan 22, 2012
The problem is that the interest of corporations and the very rich are really different from the interests of regular people.
For example, the oil industry wants to keep producing and running everything on oil.
Any large corporation may have interests in making it easier to move jobs overseas where it's cheaper.
The examples abound.
Why would you believe that having more campaign money "doesn't really mean much"? In 2008, in 93 percent of House of Representatives races and 94 percent of Senate races that had been decided by mid-day Nov. 5, the candidate who spent the most money ended up winning. (Source: http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2008/11/money-wins-white-house-and.html)
auditortuxJan 23, 2012
I total agree that right now money can equal success (although I'd want to see the details removing incumbents whom almost always get reelected)
But the solution then isn't to limit money - I'd actually probably make things worse as outside spending would be even more valuable. And good luck getting laws passed and upheld that limited the right of an individual person to take out ads/commercials supporting their candidate.
yoz420Jan 22, 2012
It's more important now for congressional elections than POTUS. Because of Supreme Court Decisions you cannot limit the amount of indirect money spent to campaign (Citizens United), and you cannot force a candidate to take public money if they want to, say, spend their own (Buckley v. Valeo, 1976). So, the only way without a constitutional amendment is to create an option for public funding of campaigns.
Source is Lawrence Lessig talking about it on the Daily Show: http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-december-13-2011/exclusive---lawrence-lessig-extended-interview-pt--1
smack300Jan 20, 2012
Ddos attack? really?
ieatskunkJan 20, 2012
The industry is just going to have to accept that it is easy to pirate their material. Just as they had to accept the ease of recoding television with VCRs, they are going to have to accept the ease by which people share files online.
The solution is not to try to destroy file sharing, but to better compete against it. Subscriber based models like Netflix and UNLIKE the rape-you cable companies, are the solution IMO. I think most people would rather pay for what they want, rather than steal it. It is just that the typical sources like cable are so f**king expensive.
skews13Jan 20, 2012
Unfortunately, this is the alternative to allowing SOPA to go forward. Either all of the internet is affected by enacting the law, or we must support the authorities in this case to target the specific offenders the law was aimed at to begin with. Can't have it both ways boys and girls.
dauntless1Jan 20, 2012
Uh, no. I really don't have to support unfounded criminal charges against people (pirates) that thus far the industry has been COMPLETELY unable to assign an actual damage value to.
Or to put it another way, I'm not rooting for the cops to catch a car thief when they have no goddamn proof he's ever taken a car, EVER.
atropus32Jan 20, 2012
A damage value has been assigned. You just dismiss it.
dauntless1Jan 20, 2012
A damage value has been completely pulled from someone's ass. That's not dismissal, that's me actually understanding both the front end, actual piracy, because I'm a tech; and the back end, where the prosecution is happening, because for a long time one of our Deans regularly participated in talks and committees governing said laws and policies for our area.
I don't care if you don't like reality, but in 99% percent of ALL piracy cases, the plaintiff has not a damn thing at all. The victim of this harassment loses because they're scared and they cave, not because of any real evidence.
ganjadude4391Jan 20, 2012
an ip address of 123.123.123.123 does NOT = a human... so again, PROVE i did something wrong, if you cannot PROVE I did something wrong than f**k off. Just because i have an IP address that matches one that you found downloading XXX does NOT mean it was me who did it.
and even if it was
PROVE IT
bobbi21Jan 20, 2012
While I understand the point you're making, you are sounding a bit like a dick.
You're making it sound like you are a mass murderer but are just so good at covering your tracks they can never arrest you since they can't get good enough evidence. Not really what most of us against sopa are going for...
copyright laws are antiquated but showing complete disregard for them because of inability to catch ppl who break them isn't really the way.
ganjadude4391Jan 20, 2012
you know you are right, I let my emotions get the best of me on that one. But I for one am sick of being guilty until i prove myself innocent. I just need to choose my wording more carefully.
bobbi21Jan 20, 2012
thanks for admitting it. It is rare here :)
I don't think there's many of us who are completely innocent on this issue. Most of us have downloaded some copyrighted material from the internet at one point in time.
I think the main argument that we have is that it doesn't cause any real monetary loss for the companies and if anything promotes their product.
As long as the actual act of copyright infringement through downloading/uploading etc is illegal, their point still stands. The difficulty in enforcing the law gives some leeway and should be enough to stop this SOPA thing but the overall war will continue. I think that's what we should provide more focus on once we ensure the internet won't just collapse due to SOPA :P
JollyMacJan 20, 2012
The White House site is also down... I blame SOPA/PIPA!
chriswheelz74Jan 20, 2012
Funny how I tell the truth about SOPA and the fact that most of Hollywood, who is behind this Act, are Liberals, and my comment gets buried. Yeah, it must be the Conservatives. They do ALL the evil in this country, and Liberals are perfect little innocent angels. WTFEver
juliochavezJan 21, 2012
I'm just burying you for whining about having a comment buried. Actually, I don't want to hear your ignorant insistence that liberals are behind SOPA, either. Especially after you admonished us ( those big meanies that buried your comment ) for being partisan. Nobody was talking about liberalism or conservatism until you attacked the Obama administration. You don't possess rudimentary reasoning skills.
ren1999Jan 20, 2012
Where did the U.S. and Hollywood get the authority to make arrests in New Zealand. I know for a fact that MegaUpload is used by people to store and exchange legitimate files. We're is the hearing? Where is the trial? Where are our basic legal rights?
favuquadJan 20, 2012
Breaking the law is the least of whats wrong here! Comporations, Federal Gov. and GOP are destroying, creating and bending laws, now thats whats really wrong with this picture!
satori3000Jan 20, 2012
and FYI Megaupload is back up and running, you just need to get their IP address as they aren't running under a domain name anymore... you can't kill an idea.
rudegarJan 20, 2012
better be careful what you keep in the public part of your dropbox...
briancomptonJan 20, 2012
Contrary to popular belief, a work of art/software is not just a bunch of ones and zeroes, it is the culmination of a massive effort put forth by it's creator(s). Should have some value.
That said, I still think webbies should be consulted along with the artists in crafting such legislation and that handing authority to judge over to Big Corporations is beyond stupid.
davebgJan 20, 2012
Great, i hope they bring some attention (no matter how small) that internet censorship will not be tolerated. I also hope someone get backup of the megaupload site and brings it back online!
kikkiaaJan 20, 2012
just stop buying their s**tty music&movies... a few months of no incomes and Universal will be changing their position
dauntless1Jan 20, 2012
No, judging from the last few years Universal, MPAA/RIAA and all the rest will just craft legislation forcing Americans to consume media from approved sources.
theotherjoejacksonJan 20, 2012
The revolution will be televised, pirated, uploaded, and downloaded.
MajorSpaceshipJan 20, 2012
i just hope the internet pirates can save us from the government.
raselroneeJan 20, 2012
i got another new about anonymous from here http://www.techshouters.com
craigstellmacheJan 19, 2012
Messing with the DOJ... Doesn't help "the cause" and will likely get you incarcerated. It also gives conservatives an excuse to tie up the web more. This was an immature stunt, but will likely have real consequences. It didn't convince the powers that be--that you're right--but is likely to result in many subpoenas till some high school kid is brought to justice.
DOJ--maybe you should upgrade a bit there too?!Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
sattireattireJan 19, 2012
it's just their website...
hell they might not even be hosting the website, it might be provided by a 3rd party service.
norman619Jan 20, 2012
And it's still illegal. You go gain unauthorized access to a government owned system and you will learn just how illegal it is.
theonewhoknowsJan 20, 2012
Norman, it seems when people digg you up, I end up digging you down. And now that people are digging you down, I find myself digging you up. Weird.
dauntless1Jan 20, 2012
No, I'm burying him for thinking you need some special access to a website to bring it down. I didn't see anything in the article that suggests Anon did anything of the sort.
theonewhoknowsJan 20, 2012
Thanks for the clarification.
sattireattireJan 20, 2012
i agree with you. doing illegal things to fix the legal system is ludicrous.
norman619Jan 20, 2012
There is only so much you can do to secure a web server and still keep it useful.
mikoszavrosApr 7, 2012
LOL
marshallrmb1Mar 12, 2012
When I was young, we were told the Soviet Union was like the present day U.S....
pabloz1Jan 26, 2012
What's not to like about this!!!
kmahoney203Jan 20, 2012
Amazing huh!
FazyforumJan 20, 2012
Fileserve closes it's affiliate program - who's next on FBI target list? Stop f**king SOPA/PIPA
http://www.fazyforum.com/news-announcements/59564-fileserve-closes-its-affiliate-program-whos-next-fbi-target-list.html
chri5gun5Jan 20, 2012
good
chriswheelz74Jan 20, 2012
I think it's funny how the Democrats in here want to blame the Republicans for SOPA. This thing has Democrats written all over it, but you can't see that, because of your partisan BS. This thing began in part, because of the YouTube videos bashing Obozo. He can't take the deserved harsh criticism of his US nation destroying policies. But hey, it's the Republicans. You know, Democrats are angels.
juliochavezJan 21, 2012
There's like 1 other comment in this whole section that even mentions anything about repuglicans v. democrats. YOU are the one spouting "partisan BS", moron.
kingrpg0Jan 20, 2012
Wow this is so epic
amsrayJan 20, 2012
This proves how corrupt that our government and society have become - the entertainment industry thinks it is horrible that Obama did not act they way they wanted him to after they gave him money. This proves that corporate donations = buying politicians. Things will not get better until we completely ban PAC's and corporate contributions to campaigns. Go back to the practice of having media outlets grant equal time to all legitimate candidates on the ballot, and allow individuals to donate to whomever they want, with a modest limit on how much each citizen can donate. This will reduce the amount of campaign we are forced to endure, it will make it much more difficult for big business to own politicians, and it will help the politcians to pay more attention to the public.
amsrayJan 20, 2012
This proves how corrupt that our government and society have become - the entertainment industry thinks it is horrible that Obama did not act they way they wanted him to after they gave him money. This proves that corporate donations = buying politicians. Things will not get better until we completely ban PAC's and corporate contributions to campaigns. Go back to the practice of having media outlets grant equal time to all legitimate candidates on the ballot, and allow individuals to donate to whomever they want, with a modest limit on how much each citizen can donate. This will reduce the amount of campaign we are forced to endure, it will make it much more difficult for big business to own politicians, and it will help the politcians to pay more attention to the public.
iamdevil999Jan 20, 2012
ATM, Anonymous was dispersed
chriswheelz74Jan 20, 2012
The Execs in Hollywood are just as Liberal as the actors/actresses. Get real. Hollywood is one of the most heavily Liberal places in the country.
ravnockJan 20, 2012
Downonymous
chriswheelz74Jan 20, 2012
I'm not forgetting anything. I don't cherry pick my facts. That's why I said BOTH parties are screwing us. For everything you can point at from Bush, I can point out things Obozo and Clinton did. I told you, I'm not a Republican or a Democrat. I can very easily sit back and point at where BOTH are destroying our country in the name of themselves. So, let's not play the tit for tat BS games. This President has done more than any of the others to destroy freedom and our Constitution than any we've ever had. They all take their orders from the same people.
madflavaJan 20, 2012
And those people would be whoever has enough money to buy whatever they want from the government.
At some point, the citizens of the United States are going to get sick of the government bending to whatever Big Business/Media wants and when that day comes, things are going to get nasty. I really dont think that day is that far off.
chriswheelz74Jan 20, 2012
The Obama Administration has done more than any other to squash our rights, put us further in debt, and generally destroy our nation. Yet, blame the other guy is still what you say. Talk about having an agenda. I'm not a Republican or Democrat, either. I guess that's why it's easy for me to see how both parties are screwing us. And you blame Conservatives. Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
dandoniaJan 20, 2012
Are you forgetting The Patriot Act? and the illegal war that drained the economy? and the Lehman Brothers going bust 3 months before Obama took office?
To say the economy is Obama's fault is outrageous. I'm a Brit and everyone blamed Gordon Brown here because it happened on his watch. As if it's his fault that the world economy was shook because of something that happened half way around the world.
It's like blaming a football manager for losing a game after a plane crash wiped out his whole squad the day of the match.
It's a world economy issue. Different political parties all over the western world were ruined.
ganjadude4391Jan 20, 2012
are you forgetting obama didnt end the patriot act? and that he created this??
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/02/new-ip-task-force-brings-stronger-and-stricter-enforcement.ars
and that the TSA is now checking highways AND trains...
but no, we cant blame obama..its bushes faultComment is buried, click here to see the rest.
benjybernyJan 20, 2012
great.......
Closed AccountJan 20, 2012
whoops....so much for eric holder's protection..../s
chriswheelz74Jan 20, 2012
Craig, there are far more LIBERALS in Hollywood than Conservatives, and they are the ones behind SOPA. Why blame the Conservatives for something Liberals are behind? That's right. Just like you blame America first, blame Conservatives first. Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
bobbi21Jan 20, 2012
NB: liberal actors. Not liberal studio execs.
PanjeeJan 20, 2012
Men with CORPORATE hats... you keep insisting that SHARING = STEALING and watch the SHARERS just keep on SHARING :o)
atropus32Jan 20, 2012
you can't 'share' what doesn't belong to you. Is that so difficult to grasp? You don't have the right to lend something that is not yours to someone else. When you stop with the sophistry and half-arsed arguments that you probably borrowed from someone else you might start to get somewhere. Sharing...
ganjadude4391Jan 20, 2012
a bunch of zeros and ones dont belong to me???
when the companies stop calling piracy theft, ill stop claiming what I do as sharing..
heres a clue, you cant steal something if everyone can have a copy of it...
PanjeeJan 20, 2012
"you can't 'share' what doesn't belong to you"
Really? I thought everything belonged to God... Also - is it not the 'claim of ownership' that creates (the potential for) controversy?
Everything we know & use, came from somewhere/someone else...
Do publishing houses, record companies & film studios pay a commission to the creators of an alpha-bet? How about paying Joseph Campbell for all the ideas he shared on the subject of mythology... or, what about all the allegories that came from ancient texts & have been made into hollywood blockbusters. Who does hollywood pay for these ideas? Anyone?
What about paying God rent for the atoms we use?
dandoniaJan 20, 2012
If they changed the name from copyright theft to copyright skiblewobble and declared that skiblewobble was an illegal act would that stop people like you bringing up "Sharing isn't stealing" argument?
For the record, I'm on the fence regarding piracy. It's a civil matter if anything and should not carry jail time but your point is really dumb.
adriadrianJan 20, 2012
great..........
nicksteryJan 20, 2012
Anonymous seem too strong.
janwindglowstarJan 20, 2012
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