SOPA strike

[Mr. Domino]

I love how people keep raging about all the things that SOPA's going to put a stop to, without realizing that they're already quite illegal, and all SOPA does is readdress the penalties for those things.

[chupacabras acheronsis]

your sig could be illegal if they want it to.

[Pn2501]

anything promoting that show should be illegal 

[Mr. Domino]

your sig could be illegal if they want it to.

I'm pretty sure that was exactly the point I was trying to make, chupa ol' buddy.

anything promoting that show should be illegal 

bite me, fanboy. 

[Ghostface]

SOPA appears to be shelved for now.

http://www.realnews24.com/whitehouse-opposes-sopa-bill-gets-shelved/

[Gate]

The Strike is still happening, I believe

[The Golden Fox]

Wikipedia is going to black out in 21 hours in protest.

I hope Google does something as well, even if it's just changing their 'Google-title' thing to an anti-SOPA message.

[Gate]

We still have to worry about Protect-IP.

Protect-IP can still land us a felony and no way to build our lives up from even 2 seconds of a movie or song appearing in our work

[The Golden Fox]

Kudos to AvPGalaxy and its host for fighting the good fight.

We're all doing the best we can, and with a little luck and determination, it'll be enough to stop these initiatives.

[Ratchetcomand]

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.

[Darkness]

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

[The Golden Fox]

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.

That's not even the issue at hand here, whether their public intentions were right or wrong, or whether or not piracy hurts the industry. It's the effect that such an iniative would have on the Internet.

On that note, you can't stop piracy in the manner which they proposed. Pirates would simply find a way around it. The only way is to offer potential downloaders something better than piracy (What that may be, I'm not quite sure).

[Shasvre]

The only way is to offer potential downloaders something better than piracy (What that may be, I'm not quite sure).

Things like Spotify works great. I don't think I've downloaded a song since I got that.

[Valaquen]

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.

[Ratchetcomand]

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

Movies and Games still make a lot of money even with people downloading them. Recent movies like Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, Toy Story 3, Transformers 3 and the final Harry Potter movie made over 1 billion worldwide. The 3rd Modern Warfare game also made around 1 billion in sales from what I can remember.

I don't think downloading effects the media that much. X-Men Origins: Wolverine was leak on the web a month and half before it was release and still did fine at the box office.