SOPA Blackout

[Alex]

I dont get what's so bad about this legislation? Seems like combatting online piracy is a good thing to me, it's ridiculous how widespread it is. Of course, I havent actually read the legislation.

Shifty if you want I am happy to swap passports!

Played much Football Manager lately Sir_Didier_Drogba?

 

[Alex]

To get around the Wikipedia blackout, just press Esc before the page finishes loading. Easy!

Haha, that's what I was doing too.

This is like drug prohibition, it won't stop pirated material from being on the net, just like drug prohibition never stops people who want drugs from taking them.

All it does is creates an (even more) underground market for them, where suddenly malware, trojans etc become even more likely with this "banned material". Just as drug prohibition leads to quality being worse, and supply met by undesirables, criminals. They'll never cut off the supply. The best way is to embrace it.

At the end of the day, the music industry is going strong still. If I didn't have 100GB of downloaded music, I wouldn't have bought it all instead. I just would be exposed to nearly as much music. Yet I've still bought CDs from my favorite artists.

TV shows are downloaded simply because we want to watch them again. I still watch my favourite TV shows on TV when they're on. And if Australian channels didn't decide to buy the rights to the popular international (American and occasionally British shows) then show them 6 months later, or mix up a series of new shows with repeats, to make the season last longer, I'd have little reason to download them. Same goes for movies, though that said, if there was a reasonable price associated with downloading movies (and by reasonable I'm talking 50c or $1-again this is essentially free revenue for them as I wouldn't do this INSTEAD of a Blu Ray of my favourite, I'd do it for convenience if I wanted to just watch some film at home one night) I'd do that too.

Basically, rather than trying to just put up a wall and stop piracy like they are, the industries involved need to realise their days of being able to charge what they want, and having the consumer by the balls is over. Get competitive, get fair, or we'll say fück you, it's easier to download.

If it was really easy to watch the TV I wanted, the movies I wanted etc when I wanted, and the cost was reasonable, I'd do it. It'd sure save me the hassle of a mega upload (used on purpose) account, a download manager, extracting the rar, getting the right codec etc. the fact that so many "pirates" are willing to pay for Mega Upload, Rapid Share, Hot File or File Serve accounts shows it's not the money putting us off. It's the service.

 

[Sir Calumn]

You see, I find that argument you just presented as far more convincing than any of the 'moral' or 'freedom of information' arguments. The first part of it, anyway.

 

[Sir Calumn]

Played much Football Manager lately Sir_Didier_Drogba?

Hahahaha you would not believe how proud I still am of successfully 'acquiring' that, probably the best thing I've ever done. So what if I had to be walked through it like a small retarded child crossing a busy road.

 

[ShiftyPowers]

Well, Filesonic is done now.

 

[yoyo913]

Well, Filesonic is done now.

WTF I just downloaded a pr0n from there earlier today!

 

[Pogba4Now]

Filesonic is not "done". They just disabled their sharing functionality probably to avoid the website being shut off like MegaUpload. They might re-activate it who knows.

 

[ShiftyPowers]

No way.

 

[yoyo913]

Well if Nady's description is right they might as well be shut down, they would be just a name in that case.

 

[Mandieta6]

It's also becoming much harder to find online vids for shows, what with videobb and some others taking down a LOT of vids. For the popular shows, like Jersey Shore and Big Bang Theory, it's still easy since so many people upload them. But with Top Chef I had to wait 3 days for a proper link. And I hate that, I love my Top Chef, I need it on ******* time.

Still, this Black March (are you getting this in your countries?) bull**** is irritating the **** out of me. I keep getting invites to pages and events about how for the whole of March nobody should buy anything that you could have otherwise gotten for free on megaupload basically. Bunch of freeloaders, I want to punch a bunch of them in the face.

 

[Mint]

Nope nothing about the Black march here in the UK.

 

[ShiftyPowers]

MTV has all their full episodes up on mtv.com. Maybe you can't get it in your country, but that's how I watch Jersey Shore and Beavis and Butthead.

 

[Alex]

Slowly slowly we're losing all the file sharing sites. They'll be back. Not necessarily those sites, but other sites that share files. Probably hosted in Africa, Asia or the Middle East.

 

[Jaboldinho]

MTV has all their full episodes up on mtv.com. Maybe you can't get it in your country, but that's how I watch Jersey Shore and Beavis and Butthead.

Obviously only shows the newest episodes for Americans. Rest have to wait for it to be on their local MTV.

 

[fender]

How am i gonna watch Californication if they all get wiped out.

 

[leungtl]

TPB? If that gets wiped out then it's cause for concern...

 

[Waldo1639]

Sh*t, Btjunkie shuts down.

 

[RobbieD_PL]

TPB? If that gets wiped out then it's cause for concern...

Haven't the high-ranking pirates already been imprisoned?

 

[Alex]

Waiting for some of the more famous BBs to disappear.

 

[Back Door Skip]

Quicksilverscreen closed too. Nooooooooo!



******* SOPA!