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Wtf is SOPA?
29 replieshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act
It's just a proposed law that will give even more power to record labels, editors and ISPs to fight piracy, basicly, by allowing them to sue almost everyone.
It also means soup in spanish
Flacko has writtenStop Online Piracy Act
Don't stop me now, 'cause I'm havin' a good time havin' a good time!
I want films 'n' shit for free. Fuck SOPA.
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Yea SOPA is some weird act, made on 26th of October, massively voted AGAINST, then failed.
Guess who voted against, except for gaming America?
wikipedia has written
Opponents of the bill include Google, Yahoo!, Facebook, Twitter, AOL, LinkedIn, eBay, Mozilla Corporation, the Brookings Institution, the Wikimedia Foundation, (...)
Yea, then you're pretty much screwed. The internet voted too.
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Rhox has written
We should have expect that.
cvx has writtenWe should have expected that.
Eh, we did.
Flacko has writtenIt also means soup in spanish
Many musicians are already calling for people to pirate their songs, so that labels would ease up on the contracts and the authors would get something for what they've done. Did you know musicians receive less than 20% from labels?
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cvx: Thumbs up for Columbo. 
Nah, I would never support anything like that.
Silent_Control: They did, DUH. Yates: Then nothing to worry about again ^^. Sopa is an big expation to some other law that failed, forget what it was but it included the illegalization of game play videos
I dont know nothing about secrets organitations The gist of act, however, is that it should empower the Department of Justice with ability to have sites blocked by search engines, ISPs and advertisement networks that operate in USA. Or, in simpler words, would give DoJ the right to censor the internet as they see fit.
That much is disturbing, because anti-piracy laws so far had been targeted against the specifically people who perpetrate. SOPA suggests leaning on the service providers instead. I`d like to meet Lamar Smith. Preferably, somewhere without witnesses.