SOPA strike

[Nope]

If those items weren't so expensive in the first place, people wouldn't need to download stuff on pirate.

They don't need to download them at all. They aren't entitled to it.
Anyway, I'm very pleased that so many sites put up the good fight and went on a blackout today!

[RagingDragon]

I wouldn't have known, fanned, or experienced half the things I have if it weren't for the net and D/L'ing. Quality control - I always buy the shit that I deem to deserve it. Great movies, music, etc. I've bolstered my DVD/BD collection considerably thanks to D/L'ing, otherwise I wouldn't have bothered to dare waste my money.

Same for me.  Especially when you don't have a lot of disposable income to spend, you don't want to go buying no crap movie or game that you can't return.   If the product is good, not only will I purchase it, but I'll want to support it with my money.  That's a basic responsiblility of any capitalist citizen.

[KirklandSignature]

I tend to think the internets as "international waters". The internets must remain open and un-censored if we are to have any hope of living in an actual free society. Let's not forget that the real enemies here are the RIAA and Ted Nuget/Metallica. These bitches are complaning about losing money when they're already millionares.

[Inverse Effect]

People act like downloading things legally will hurt media when movies, games and music still make a lot of money. More people will rather sit down and watch a movie on a big screen then watch it on a PC at home.

It's funny how the two biggest supports are the NFL and Hollywood. No supprise there.

Even more so when the big movies like Mission impossible 4 had a budget of 145 mill and still made a profit of about 500 mill.

[chupacabras acheronsis]

good luck, i'm behind seven proxies

[RagingDragon]

People act like downloading things legally will hurt media when movies, games and music still make a lot of money. More people will rather sit down and watch a movie on a big screen then watch it on a PC at home.

It's funny how the two biggest supports are the NFL and Hollywood. No supprise there.

Even more so when the big movies like Mission impossible 4 had a budget of 145 mill and still made a profit of about 500 mill.

That's too close to the Socialist>Communist slope for me.   The government doesn't control what private corporations do with their profits outside of taxes, and to suggest that they should is a lot scarier an idea than internet censorship, imo.  They earned those profits through business, people handing over their money for a product.  It's not like they're stealing, and there are plenty of progressive laws for white-collar crime if they were.

I mean, the entertainment industry is simultaneously the United States biggest export and employs the largest portion of American workers.  It's certainly provided my life with plenty of joy and fond memories.  You let the system be free, and these guys end up making millions of dollars through decades of providing entertainment services to the public.  Thats just how it went down.  Of course its not all good, but I wouldn't want people getting pissed at me for making great products and getting rich, nor saying that I should somehow be responsible for supporting poor people, through government regulations, just because I got rich.

Just had to play devils advocate for a minute.

I keep seeing

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Am I the only one seeing this "This comment is removed by S.O.P.A" shit?

Rich what hell are you talking about?  I can read their posts just fine.

Edit - ^ 30 seconds late, Chupa.  You can be my wingman anytime.

[Celtic Predator 2782]

SOPA SUCKS! The f***ing goverment is trying to conrtol the the internet too! The govement wants to regulate driveing hunting, guns, marage and know they want to interfere with the internet. WTF! 

[Ratchetcomand]

At this point, I think they don't care to stop people from downloading thing legally. Just care about money and want people go back to the stone age of the Internet that exist from the late 80's and early 90's.

I can't wait for them edit this comment  !

[whiterabbit]

Man screw the mpaa/riaa/nfl. Their media services suck. That's what piracy really comes down too. The prates give better service. Stupid drm that made it a pain in the arse to use the stuff that you bought. Stupid un-skipable dvd ads. That one really pissed me off and was the reason I went the free free route.

Lets be honest, as a consumer, pirates seriously benefit us. Now we have services like netflix and even crunchyroll... not perfect but pretty damn superior to the garbage that was offered by the stooges. Neftlix got a lot of smack from customers but it is a hell of a lot cheaper than the vcr days and more convenient. And to think that all of these modern services would never have been as the stooges never wanted online distribution and would have been illegal under sopa|pipa.

Even fansites are illegal under sopa|pipa, selling used products too. I'm glad that AVP Galaxy participated in the blackout. Being that fans should have the right to be fans.

[Alienseseses]

MPAA sucks no matter how you slice it. If they're for something, there's probably a good chance it's screwy.

[PVTDukeMorrison]

The media services can eat a dick.

[BANE]

Honestly, SOPA is just another attempt by money whores to get more monet. I mean, for███ █████ █████ ███████ ███ █████ ██ █ ███! This comment have been found in violation of H.R. 3261, S.O.P.A and Senate Bill 968, P.I.P.A. and has been removed.

[Xenomorphine]

I'd not known AVP Galaxy was going to do this. Wish there'd been some kind of warning in advance.

Or at least done like some sites have, where it's just temporary and you get the message, but you can click on through. Wiki's not doing that rather pissed me off, because I had something I was genuinely needing to research at short notice.

[Ghostface]

I'd not known AVP Galaxy was going to do this. Wish there'd been some kind of warning in advance.

Or at least done like some sites have, where it's just temporary and you get the message, but you can click on through. Wiki's not doing that rather pissed me off, because I had something I was genuinely needing to research at short notice.

Wikipedia gave plenty of notice. It's been all over the net that they were shutting down shop on the 18th. As for a click through, what's the point? It's like clicking on a page that preloads an ad with a "skip ad" link at the top. How many people actually sit through the ad without skipping, and of them how many actually take notice. Wikipedia wanted to make sure you got their message, and it worked.

[[T)A]DarkDragon]

I'm one of the very few people who are for SOPA.

I think everyone is bad becuase they don't want to have to actually pay for their music. All the "it's against the first amendment!" shit is just false. The bill has nothing to do with that. All it's trying to do is to stop people from stealing copyrights. I'm not saying that the SOPA isn't without faults, but a lot of people have taken it out of context. Way out of context.

However, I'm not going to debate. Just wanted to have my say.

you can do five years for the image in your avatar.
and this site can be shut down.