ACTA Gets Killed

[Berthenk]

Up to the next "cyber security" bill against which there might not be as much protest!

 

[Hyro-Sama]

Now to get Megaupload back.

Michael Jackson has a higher chance of being resurrected.

 

[Zetta_x]

Now to get Megaupload back.

Michael Jackson has a higher chance of being resurrected.

Whether I lose an arm or leg, Michael Jackson will be resurrected!

~10 points who gets the reference.

 

[Gahars]

I'll believe it when it's struck down.

It doesn't look like that's going to happen. Instead of bothering with a vote, they'll probably just sweep the whole thing under the rug and move on.

 

[cris92x]

It will never be over, the government is going to invade our privacy always its the necessary evil for "security". The question is when and how much privacy will we compromise. All other forms of communication are watched what makes the internet an exception?

Christ, we get good news about how the government and nations around the world are defeating bills to protect our rights and we just get "NO THE GOVERMENT IS TRYING TO STEAL OUR PERSONAL INFORMATION AND INVADE OUR PRIVACY."

Can people ever stop crying about how government is a big meanie and realize how absolutely essential they are to our daily lives?

I never said invasion of privacy was a bad thing, I didn't mean to have any political stance except that you can either have freedom or you can have security or you meet somewhere in the middle, honestly I'm down for more security if it was applied correctly, racial profiling doesn't cut it for me. Anyway eventually the government will have to find a way to monitor some parts of the internet, they have to.

 

[Deleted User]

You know, I don't even give a fuck anymore, If the government wants to fuck somebody over, they can, and always will have the power to do so.
They are the law.

 

[Guild McCommunist]

You know, I don't even give a fuck anymore, If the government wants to fuck somebody over, they can, and always will have the power to do so.
They are the law.

So true, they totally fucked over all the people who wanted internet censorship and to invade our privacy.

Go government, woohoo!

 

[Foxi4]

Everybody's cheering because now their download queues are temporarily safe. The hilarity of this situation is that everybody stands under the "privacy and freedom" banner, but 99% of'em have a jaded understanding of those words. I'm willing to wager that most of the Anti-ACTA/PIPA/SOPA activists are only againts those bills because their ratification could potentially cause legal action againts them for "acquiring copyrighted data" via "unofficial channels". It's really delightful to watch this situation from a distance. "Freedom and privacy" often gets mixed with "I can do whatever I want and it's nobody's business". Not that I'm againts piracy, I just don't give a damn about laws like these since I'm well-aware that people got too used to the convenience of downloading and would simply start riots the moment someone tries to take this "privilege" away from them.

 

[notmeanymore]

^Against

And this is fairly boring news, considering it's one person's opinion. It's not over until it's over.

 

[Deleted User]

You know, I don't even give a fuck anymore, If the government wants to fuck somebody over, they can, and always will have the power to do so.
They are the law.

So true, they totally fucked over all the people who wanted internet censorship and to invade our privacy.

Go government, woohoo!

Apparently you don't understand my point.
My point is, that no matter what laws make it or not, we never have any privacy, If the government wants something, they will take it.

 

[Phoenix Goddess]

^Against

And this is fairly boring news, considering it's one person's opinion. It's not over until it's over.

So many party poopers on the temp.

 

[Foxi4]

It's good that the threaty has less and less supporters because it was stupid and wouldn't work. The assumption that one can successfuly monitor the internet is ludicrous - even search bots are not sure what they're logging as they scan the web. Implementing a successful anti-counterfeit system would require each country to hire whole armies of admins that would scan the web and determine what's legal and what's illegal content and even then, they would only be capable of acting againts such content when the server is physically within their jurisdiction, and seeing that most file sharing networks have their bases of operations in countries that just don't care, even ACTA wouldn't help. When there's a will, there's a way - proxies, VPN, you name it. The internet was not originally designed to grow to such proportions, its fatal flaw is decentralization. Asking particular countries to monitor traffic is like asking them to monitor the bottom of the sea using only scuba sets - good luck with that.

 

[FireGrey]

inb4 thread about new anti-piracy act that i shall dub: NAPA

 

[Ultymoo]

Fuck it, I'm popping some champagne to celebrate tonight regardless of whether or not it's struck down or being hushed for a year.

 

[ZAFDeltaForce]

Well this is a tremendous relief. I was kind of expecting it to get canned, but there was always this scary what-if that lingered at the back of my mind.

With all this dead and done, let's hope the Internet stays free for as long as possible, before some asshole comes up with something smart again.

 

[Janthran]

Maybe we should just abolish the government and have everyone be equal.
Spread the riches across the nation.
Thoughts?

 

[Guild McCommunist]

Maybe we should just abolish the government and have everyone be equal.
Spread the riches across the nation.
Thoughts?

Except that wouldn't work.

And that's coming from Guild McCommunist

 

[loco365]

inb4 thread about new anti-piracy act that i shall dub: NAPA

I totally see what you did there.

 

[Janthran]

Maybe we should just abolish the government and have everyone be equal.
Spread the riches across the nation.
Thoughts?

Except that wouldn't work.

And that's coming from Guild McCommunist

If it wouldn't work, why don't you change your name?

 

[Guild McCommunist]

If it wouldn't work, why don't you change your name?

Because it's a lovely ideal but never a reality.

DEEP MAN. Also the name's been there for a while, it's a long story.