revokingemotion:

It could be in Law as early as Friday.

It will be passed without a vote, it is NOT going to the Oireachtas.
It will be signed directly into law.

PLEASE, ANY SANE IRISH FOLLOWER I HAVE. RING YOUR TD, EMAIL THEM. SIGN THE PETITION ON  http://stopsopaireland.com/
FOR YOU OWN SAKE AND MINE.

loseristic:

grotesquelycapricious:

Get the fuck used to it.

Maybe if you didn’t just sit there on your asses going “lololol nothing’s gonna happen people are over reacting” this wouldn’t have happened.

Maybe if you signed petitions and contacted your representatives like the rest of us we’d still have a fighting chance.

Good job, your laziness to click a link and sign some shit is going to cost us all the internet. Have fun with that, but don’t you dare and complain now when you didn’t try to do shit when it started.

All file hosting services are shutting down.

I’m still waiting to see when they’ll go after torrent sites and the likes.

Or art websites.

Because in case you don’t know some companies get really butthurt about fanart of their series/games.

Maybe music sharing websites too.

As well as creative writing communities.

You wanted to be a singer? An artist? A Writer? Fuck that shit now.

This shit ain’t about piracy anymore and you know it.

But hey if you’re not too lazy to click some links atm I’ll just post 2, because I know how you guys get overwhelmed if someone posts too many links.

SOPA/PIPA (USA)

ACTA (EUROPE)

There. You can also browse around these for info.

You are fucking welcome you lazy shitheads.

Amen.

(Source: seagoatboy)

potterology-:

You all know about PIPA and SOPA, so I’ll cut the shit and just get on with it.

They - an ominously ambiguous word that strikes the same wet-your-undies fear in much the same way that ‘anonymous’ does in government officials - are determined to crackdown on copyright infringers everywhere, starting with Megaupload in the FBI raid earlier today, and they are willing to go above and beyond the law to do it.

They found loopholes in defined clauses that allowed them to arrest four people whose only crime is maintaing a website that supports file storage, with no hard evidence that they had any idea how their site was being used. And even if the runners were aware of what was happening, there would be no way to prove it until after the raid, after computer files (emails etc) were seized and scrutinized. Unless they were hacked of course. A violation of rights to…prevent violation of rights? Do you see the problem here? Someone is going to get screwed either way, but will it be the corporations who aren’t exactly suffering a blow as it is, or the little man who can’t afford to dole out buck after buck. 

This is an important step because, had it been kept quiet and not been conducted in tandem with the destructive force of PIPA/SOPA, it would have been a non-event until Megaupload was removed from the web. Consumers and visitors to the website would have simply assumed that the servers were down - I’m sure many tumblr users, who are no strangers to these malfunctions, would have just tried again later - and ignored it until a release of an official statement.  Do you see the problem in this? The Orwellian concept of people ‘disappearing’ because they dared challenge authority, even in such a harmless way as to own the domain of a website that millions access? If the internet were a German village in the 1930s, Megaupload is the Jewish family that the rest of us are watching through our net curtains get dragged down the street, kicking and screaming.

This takedown was not an act of government crime-busting, but an act of terror against the people it claims it must protect. Uncle Sam is now going by the name Uncle Tony, and he wants his money and he wants it now, otherwise you’re going to take a very long walk off a very short pier.  Times-a-wasting. Better cough it up. Do you see the problem with this attitude? That the government knows best? In a country whose health care, education and tax system takes the saying “rich get richer and the poor get poorer” as practically their fucking motto, it is high time that the 99% put their foot down and says NO MORE. 

Here’s a hard truth for you boys: The government finally knows that its people are getting their collective shit together and fighting back against the corruption that is seeping its way through the facade. Occupy was the beginning, the spark that ignites a fire. And to buy a word from Suzanne Collins, “if we burn, you burn with us.” 

Cause the thing is, SOPA and PIPA - while operating under the guise of aiding the media industry and copyright infringement enforcement blah blah blah - is just a facade. A stepping stone into full blown censorship. How long before our governments decide that YouTube is a damaging liberty because it acts as a medium to upload 15 minute videos that theoretically could contain copyrighted material? How long before something like Tumblr is considered damaging as it supports gif uploads (which must originate from somewhere, and as software to rip DVDs has to be downloaded from somewhere - that’s one infraction - and/or the copy that you use to make those gifs must have been downloaded from somewhere - that’s two! - and you have just uploaded them onto the internet for anyone to view or save - three’s a party! - not to mention all of those master-posts and song download advertisements)? And if Tumblr and YouTube are gone, what’s to stop them from taking out 4chan, which can be considered an ‘unsafe’ place on the web and a perfect way to score a torrent or two - so that’s out. KAT, TPB, Rapidshare, BT, Vuze: All of them.

What then, I ask, will they say upon the matter of Facebook? What is stopping them from stating that fanpages that feature photographs or magazine spreads in their FanPhoto albums as ‘copyrighted material’ and taking that option down too? What is to stop them from saying that MySpace (for all of it’s interwebz RIP) is infringing on copyrights because it has the music player ability on your page? How about blogspot? 

How long before it’s not just about copyright infringement and the RPAA etc? How long before Facebook is considered on the same level as WikiLeaks (the founder of which is still blacklisted from the US and has currently been under ‘arrest’ for 406 days)? How long before its starts being about the things you say or the way you say it? 

How long before the government utters the words “For The Greater Good” and in doing so will announce the Death of civil liberties and freedom of speech?

How long before those arrests for copyright infringement become arrests for speaking out of turn? 

It’s a slippery slope that you’re on, Congress (and that goes for all governments); I suggest that you consider your options, take a step back and realise that this is not over. This will never be over because as long as you seek to destroy what the common man has sought to build over millions of years, we will always find a way to fight back. 

Sincerely, 

Samantha Cooper, Concerned. 

stalkerish:

melislestrade:

astudyinpanic:

ThePirateBay’s press release in regards to SOPA and PIPA.

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THIS. EVERYONE SHOULD READ IT.

I don’t think the US Government has really stopped to consider what will happen to its culture if it shuts itself off from the world. How much does the youth of the USA learn from their interactions with the thoughts and creative output of people around the world? How much with the intellectual and cultural growth of the country be stunted by the isolation that this bill makes possible? Third world countries that are just beginning to receive access to the internet are learning so much, and becoming inspired by those more forward countries who put content up for the world to see. To risk taking that away from the citizens of the USA is foolish. The Internet is freedom. The industries who are losing money need to adapt to the Internet’s advances, not attempt to backtrack.

THEY CANNOT SILENCE THE WORLD.

i just need to read a lot of things. the reason i haven’t been reading up on sopa isn’t because for lack of time or lack of interest, but because everything i read will be colored with YES SOPA or NO SOPA (most of which will probably be NO SOPA because hello! internet!). but i just want… to form my own precise opinion (more than YES or NO) based on… i don’t know. more information.

more data.

(Source: embrosia)

lastallianceofelvesandmen:

Here’s a link to sign a petition, regardless if you’re American or not, we must stand together. It only will take a second but if we all do this, it will make a difference. Reblog and pass the link on. 

forever-always-me:

THIS

(Source: theamericankid)

catbountry:

Is anybody on the internet even for SOPA and PIPA?

(Source: historiful)

sexlock:

jew-ishatheist:

I keep hearing that removing sites from the DNS won’t work because those sites still exist. So I downloaded a mod for Firefox that let me view said IP and took them down. I’m not overtly technical minded so all this info should be taken with a grain of salt. Take these down for yourself then, re-blog and if you have the skills, Please add and expand upon either the list or the ideas. I’d rather live in a free Open-Society.

Basically, entering the code into your URL will bring you directly to the server.

Hotmail: 65.54.165.179
Facebook : 66.220.156.48
Tumblr : 184.173.74.9
Twitter : 199.59.148.10
Wiki : 91.198.174.225
Google : 209.85.143.94
Gamil : 209.85.143.84
TVtropes : 216.151.212.103
Nationstates : 209.17.190.147
Youtube : 209.85.143.136
Stanford Philosophy : 171.67.193.20
My little Brony : 72.233.69.6
TED ‘Ideas worth spreading’ : 72.3.218.115

Note: I do this because I care. However, this will be illegal after the passing of SOAP as information designed to subvert the law or might already be illegal under some archic law. I warn you so that it is your choice to share this information. I bank upon been Irish and therefore immune from American interests but extradition exists and I hear it has been used for similar cases. Basically, I can’t assure you that reblogging won’t come back to bite you in the ass and thought I’d be upfront about it.

To hell with it. It’s nice to have precautions.

1. Tik Tok Martin Freeman’s Cock wouldn’t exist
2. SuperChin wouldn’t exist
3. Need whoop-ass in a can/Well, honey, hold my jam wouldn’t have blessed your ears
4. Raise your Jam wouldn’t exist

Reasons why SOPA sucks ass for me as a parody artist.

In addition

1. mynameisgrey’s Me and Mr. Holmes or her heartwrenching Hey There, John Watson wouldn’t exist
2. That wonderful Fix You parody and dear God I forgot who made it would somebody please link me again? wouldn’t exist

And if they did exist, we’d get shut down for it.

STOP SOPA.

rcmclachlan:

SPREAD THIS LIKE WILDFIRE.

#STOP #SOPA