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Subject: Bungie's Position on SOPA
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Posted by: AzNs4LiF3
You guys hear about ACTA?

ACTA is pretty much dead because people got leaked information from their secret meetings.

The only bad thing about that treaty is that Obama said that he would consider that an executive agreement instead of a treaty. That means he would be able to bypass the required vote by the Senate.

  • 01.18.2012 3:13 PM PDT

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I took down my portfolio in protest.

  • 01.18.2012 3:14 PM PDT

iPhone 4S 64GB Black.

"But while Microsoft opposes SOPA, it was not joining the blackouts, complete and partial, used by Mozilla, Google, Reddit, Wikipedia and ohers to protest the bill.

"Hundreds of millions of customers rely on our services every day so we don't plan to shut those down to express our view," the Microsoft spokesman said."

Some people think Microsoft are with SOPA...

  • 01.18.2012 3:17 PM PDT

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Steam username: TopWargamer
To look up my Halo stats...search for the gamertag TopWargamer.
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One does not simply get rid of TopWargamer so easily.
You know this to be true.
ALL HAIL GABEN

If this is true, we are one step closer.....

[Edited on 01.18.2012 3:29 PM PST]

  • 01.18.2012 3:25 PM PDT

Waypoint Moderators aren't really Moderators, just power hungry and its goal is defend their beloved Halo at all costs. (Meaning that they wank Halo too much.)

BS Angel is alleged foe so, be wary of Waypoint and its moderators! Do not attempt to move to Waypoint. Enter your own risk.

*WARNING* IT IS MY OPINION.

Who supports the SOPA is ignorant and doesn't understand how the Internet works. Just sayin'.

Good work, Bungie. Now, we must remain hopeful that SOPA does not pass, period.

  • 01.18.2012 3:37 PM PDT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h2dF-IsH0I

  • 01.18.2012 4:06 PM PDT

Holy Pimps At Sea, guys. I just realised something.

SOPA is the Final Boss Of The Internet.

Think about it: Everyone's fighting it. And if we fail, the Internet will be destroyed. FOREVER.

  • 01.18.2012 4:09 PM PDT
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Posted by: GaMeSmAzTeR108
Holy Pimps At Sea, guys. I just realised something.

SOPA is the Final Boss Of The Internet.

Think about it: Everyone's fighting it. And if we fail, the Internet will be destroyed. FOREVER.

Nope

They'll create another bill that's even worse. Every anti-piracy bill has been getting increasing more restrictive.

  • 01.18.2012 4:13 PM PDT
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NOT INTO THE LONG GRASS!

The internet as you know it is gone.

Today

We fight to bring it back.

  • 01.18.2012 5:15 PM PDT
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We are determined that before the sun sets on this terrible struggle our flag will be recognized throughout the world as a symbol of freedom on the one hand and of overwhelming force on the other.


Posted by: Ins3ktz
The internet as you know it is gone.

Today

We fight to bring it back.

  • 01.18.2012 5:21 PM PDT

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/pipa-support-c ollapses-with-13-new-opponents-in-senate.ars

  • 01.18.2012 5:21 PM PDT
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my gt is Godzillla....i just didnt link it properly

it was only a matter of time before something like this happened if you think about it

  • 01.18.2012 5:24 PM PDT

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Posted by: EnragedElite67
"The problem with quotes on the internet is 95% are made up." - Socrates

Linky

  • 01.18.2012 5:28 PM PDT
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We must make the laws. For now on the girls bathroom must be connected to the kitchen!... I kid the chicks but I'm serious about the making our own law thing.

  • 01.18.2012 5:31 PM PDT
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Once the next generation gets into office, the world will be much better.

  • 01.18.2012 5:40 PM PDT

Hold it right there.

Hello. Name's Brian. Look, if you're looking for a flame war with me, just open up the Flood and write up some not-nice things about religion and I'll bring my nukes to the party.

If you want some other way to contact me, you can forget it.

If you're interested in some of my work, you can check my homepage out.

All of these bills are hilarious.

SOPA, PIPA, and ACTA are all acronyms which make up Spanish words. First time I read a SOPA thread, I thought people had something against soup.

  • 01.18.2012 5:40 PM PDT

Hold it right there.

Hello. Name's Brian. Look, if you're looking for a flame war with me, just open up the Flood and write up some not-nice things about religion and I'll bring my nukes to the party.

If you want some other way to contact me, you can forget it.

If you're interested in some of my work, you can check my homepage out.

Posted by: AJ7188again
Once the next generation gets into office, the world will be much better.

I fear about the next generation getting into everything else.

  • 01.18.2012 5:41 PM PDT

Well hopefully these bills get defeated in the senate because if this is just corporations trying to save money then they could start censoring out other smaller website to clear out the competition.

  • 01.18.2012 6:24 PM PDT

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If you guys haven't seen this already, you should sign the petition Google put up against SOPA.

http://www.google.com/landing/takeaction/



[Edited on 01.18.2012 6:36 PM PST]

  • 01.18.2012 6:34 PM PDT

Posted by: lI Maverick lI

Posted by: TopWargamer
If this is true, we are one step closer.....


Eh, this coming from man who said he would veto the NDAA.

Didn't happen. But that's okay! Everyone lies every once in a while, right??
Pretty sure he said he would veto only if certain provisions weren't removed, and they were.

  • 01.18.2012 6:35 PM PDT

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It is another sad turn of events for America the strong and free if this passes. Corporate greed has once again revealed it's true colors.

  • 01.18.2012 6:55 PM PDT

For your reading pleasure.
INTERNETS, 18th of January 2012.
PRESS RELEASE, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE.

Over a century ago Thomas Edison got the patent for a device which would "do for the eye what the phonograph does for
the ear". He called it the Kinetoscope. He was not only amongst the first to record video, he was also the first person
to own the copyright to a motion picture.

Because of Edisons patents for the motion pictures it was close to financially impossible to create motion pictures
in the North american east coast. The movie studios therefor relocated to California, and founded what we today call
Hollywood. The reason was mostly because there was no patent.
There was also no copyright to speak of, so the studios could copy old stories and make movies out of them - like
Fantasia, one of Disneys biggest hits ever.

So, the whole basis of this industry, that today is screaming about losing control over immaterial rights, is that they
circumvented immaterial rights. They copied (or put in their terminology: "stole") other peoples creative works,
without paying for it. They did it in order to make a huge profit. Today, they're all successful and most of the
studios are on the Fortune 500 list of the richest companies in the world. Congratulations - it's all based on being
able to re-use other peoples creative works. And today they hold the rights to what other people create.
If you want to get something released, you have to abide to their rules. The ones they created after circumventing
other peoples rules.

The reason they are always complainting about "pirates" today is simple. We've done what they did. We circumvented the
rules they created and created our own. We crushed their monopoly by giving people something more efficient. We allow
people to have direct communication between eachother, circumventing the profitable middle man, that in some cases take
over 107% of the profits (yes, you pay to work for them).
It's all based on the fact that we're competition.
We've proven that their existance in their current form is no longer needed. We're just better than they are.

And the funny part is that our rules are very similar to the founding ideas of the USA. We fight for freedom of speech.
We see all people as equal. We believe that the public, not the elite, should rule the nation. We believe that laws
should be created to serve the public, not the rich corporations.

The Pirate Bay is truly an international community. The team is spread all over the globe - but we've stayed out of the
USA. We have Swedish roots and a swedish friend said this:
The word SOPA means "trash" in Swedish. The word PIPA means "a pipe" in Swedish. This is of course not a coincidence.
They want to make the internet inte a one way pipe, with them at the top, shoving trash through the pipe down to the
rest of us obedient consumers.
The public opinion on this matter is clear. Ask anyone on the street and you'll learn that noone wants to be fed with
trash. Why the US government want the american people to be fed with trash is beyond our imagination but we hope that
you will stop them, before we all drown.

SOPA can't do anything to stop TPB. Worst case we'll change top level domain from our current .org to one of the
hundreds of other names that we already also use. In countries where TPB is blocked, China and Saudi Arabia springs to
mind, they block hundreds of our domain names. And did it work? Not really.
To fix the "problem of piracy" one should go to the source of the problem. The entertainment industry say they're
creating "culture" but what they really do is stuff like selling overpriced plushy dolls and making 11 year old girls
become anorexic. Either from working in the factories that creates the dolls for basically no salary or by watching
movies and tv shows that make them think that they're fat.

In the great Sid Meiers computer game Civilization you can build Wonders of the world. One of the most powerful ones
is Hollywood. With that you control all culture and media in the world. Rupert Murdoch was happy with MySpace and had
no problems with their own piracy until it failed. Now he's complainting that Google is the biggest source of piracy
in the world - because he's jealous. He wants to retain his mind control over people and clearly you'd get a more
honest view of things on Wikipedia and Google than on Fox News.

Some facts (years, dates) are probably wrong in this press release. The reason is that we can't access this information
when Wikipedia is blacked out. Because of pressure from our failing competitors. We're sorry for that.

THE PIRATE BAY, (K)2012

  • 01.18.2012 7:01 PM PDT

It's just SoPathetic...

  • 01.18.2012 8:00 PM PDT