| View previous topic :: View next topic |
| Author |
Message |
mikezilla2
Status: Offline
Joined: 12 Jun 2007
Posts: 5236
$poons: 588.60
|
 Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 10:51 pm Post subject: Capcom and SOPA and everyone else |
|
|
 |
|
yea it needs its own thread 
_________________
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Cyph
Status: Offline
Joined: 17 Apr 2008
Posts: 3977
$poons: 716.80
Location: Perth, WA
|
| Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 11:10 pm Post subject: |
|
|
|
|
|
Am I missing something?
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
mikezilla2
Status: Offline
Joined: 12 Jun 2007
Posts: 5236
$poons: 588.60
|
| Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 11:14 pm Post subject: |
|
|
|
|
| Cyph wrote: | | Am I missing something? |
yep http://palgn.com.au/viewtopic.php?t=30485&start=3675
tho i could also be missing something assuming it already has a topic ?
i wasint sure it needed a topic maybe it dosnt ....
_________________
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Benza
Status: Offline
Joined: 11 Mar 2008
Posts: 14586
$poons: 119.20
|
| Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 11:19 pm Post subject: |
|
|
|
|
capcom and the SOPA probbably doesn't, but a general SOPA topic would probbably get used.
_________________
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
mikezilla2
Status: Offline
Joined: 12 Jun 2007
Posts: 5236
$poons: 588.60
|
| Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 11:24 pm Post subject: |
|
|
|
|
| Benza wrote: | | capcom and the SOPA probbably doesn't, but a general SOPA topic would probbably get used. |
" and everyone else" 
_________________
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Benza
Status: Offline
Joined: 11 Mar 2008
Posts: 14586
$poons: 119.20
|
| Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 11:28 pm Post subject: |
|
|
|
|
well if you're going to play by those rules of using the words you actually wrote
_________________
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Pagan's Mind
Status: Offline
Joined: 19 Jun 2009
Posts: 2900
$poons: 4.40
Location: Gold Coast
|
| Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2012 12:36 am Post subject: |
|
|
|
|
|
Should we be worried about SOPA?
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Frozencry
Status: Offline
Joined: 04 Nov 2005
Posts: 9277
$poons: 1628.10
Location: Sydney
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
grim-one
Status: Offline
Joined: 07 Dec 2007
Posts: 6646
$poons: 1567.30
Location: Perth
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Benza
Status: Offline
Joined: 11 Mar 2008
Posts: 14586
$poons: 119.20
|
| Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2012 8:21 am Post subject: |
|
|
|
|
haha, reading that list of ESA members you posted Epic games was pretty much the only company on the list I gave half a shit about.
Looks like 38 studios and Trion have come out against it too.
_________________
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Cyph
Status: Offline
Joined: 17 Apr 2008
Posts: 3977
$poons: 716.80
Location: Perth, WA
|
| Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2012 12:01 pm Post subject: |
|
|
|
|
I just didn't know what Capcom had said until now... Idiots
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
StorminNorman
Status: Offline
Joined: 13 Mar 2011
Posts: 809
$poons: 152.40
|
| Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2012 12:37 pm Post subject: |
|
|
|
|
| Pagan's Mind wrote: | | Should we be worried about SOPA? |
Yes. Unlike other hilariously misguided US laws like the DMCA and the CDA, SOPA actually has international ramifications, due to the fact that it enables US-based credit card companies (i.e. all of them) to cut off funding to sites deemed "rogue" by the movie studios, without any judicial process.
Given what happened to Spanish website Rojadirecta last year, this is really bad for anyone who uses the internet. Of course, that's not the worst thing the US has done to Spain.
Right now, there are too many US politicians in the pockets of US corporations, and who are too willing to set laws that only benefit those corporations. US film studios are especially notorious for this behaviour in recent times.
As to what we here in Australia can do about it, the best thing you can do is to stop supporting US film studios: don't see movies at the cinema, and don't buy DVDs of US movies or TV series. It might seem like a small gesture, but if many of us start doing it (and start spreading the word among our friends and relatives) it's possible to send a message.
We can do the same with the video game publishers that support the bill, either directly or implicitly through their membership of the ESA. Don't buy video games from those companies.
You should also get onto as many of your US-based friends as you can and encourage them to get onto their congressmen/senators to explain to them why SOPA is such a hideous law.
_________________
Twitter | XBL: Tamaaya | PSN: stormo | GameCentre/Steam: StorminNorman
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
sobriquet835
Status: Offline
Joined: 07 Jan 2009
Posts: 2369
$poons: 3.20
Location: Melbourne
|
| Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2012 6:30 pm Post subject: |
|
|
|
|
[quote="StorminNorman"] | Pagan's Mind wrote: |
As to what we here in Australia can do about it, the best thing you can do is to stop supporting US film studios: don't see movies at the cinema, and don't buy DVDs of US movies or TV series. It might seem like a small gesture, but if many of us start doing it (and start spreading the word among our friends and relatives) it's possible to send a message.
|
Yeah that's gonna happen. This is pretty much asking the impossible, given about 80-90% of movies in most aussie cinemas come from Hollywood.
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
grim-one
Status: Offline
Joined: 07 Dec 2007
Posts: 6646
$poons: 1567.30
Location: Perth
|
| Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2012 7:48 pm Post subject: |
|
|
|
|
So should we extend that out to not buying US produced music? Video games?
I for one am not.
_________________
Steam:grim_one | PSN/Live:najakh | Flickr
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
StorminNorman
Status: Offline
Joined: 13 Mar 2011
Posts: 809
$poons: 152.40
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
StorminNorman
Status: Offline
Joined: 13 Mar 2011
Posts: 809
$poons: 152.40
|
| Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2012 11:36 am Post subject: |
|
|
|
|
Boing Boing to go dark on January 18.
This is part of a greater movement, started by Reddit, of sites that will shut down for the day. You can find out more here.
| Cory Doctorow wrote: | Even though a substantial portion of my living comes from the entertainment industry, I don't think that any amount of "piracy" justifies this kind of depraved indifference to the consequences of one's actions. Big Content haven't just declared war on Boing Boing and Reddit and the rest of the "fun" Internet: they've declared war on every person who uses the net to publicize police brutality, every oppressed person in the Arab Spring who used the net to organize protests and publicize the blood spilled by their oppressors, every abused kid who used the net to reveal her father as a brutalizer of children, every gay kid who used the net to discover that life is worth living despite the torment she's experiencing, every grassroots political campaigner who uses the net to make her community a better place -- as well as the scientists who collaborate online, the rescue workers who coordinate online, the makers who trade tips online, the people with rare diseases who support each other online, and the independent creators who use the Internet to earn their livings.
The contempt for human rights on display with SOPA and PIPA is more than foolish. Foolishness can be excused. It's more than greed. Greed is only to be expected. It is evil, and it must be fought. |
_________________
Twitter | XBL: Tamaaya | PSN: stormo | GameCentre/Steam: StorminNorman
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
grim-one
Status: Offline
Joined: 07 Dec 2007
Posts: 6646
$poons: 1567.30
Location: Perth
|
| Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2012 11:42 am Post subject: |
|
|
|
|
So I've been reading a few articles on this. It sounds like the tide is turning against SOPA and PIPA now. The hearing got delayed until there is consensus. The White House issued a statement that seems fairly strongly worded against it, or at least limiting what it can do.
The internet may survive!
_________________
Steam:grim_one | PSN/Live:najakh | Flickr
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
StorminNorman
Status: Offline
Joined: 13 Mar 2011
Posts: 809
$poons: 152.40
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
StorminNorman
Status: Offline
Joined: 13 Mar 2011
Posts: 809
$poons: 152.40
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Benza
Status: Offline
Joined: 11 Mar 2008
Posts: 14586
$poons: 119.20
|
| Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 12:58 pm Post subject: |
|
|
|
|
I love that he's bitching about it on Twitter of all places.
_________________
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Benza
Status: Offline
Joined: 11 Mar 2008
Posts: 14586
$poons: 119.20
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Karai Pantsu
PALGN Moderator
Status: Offline
Joined: 17 Aug 2006
Posts: 10109
$poons: 29.06
Location: Melbexico
|
| Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 8:21 am Post subject: |
|
|
|
|
Good news, everybody!
Well, at least for the immediate future anyway.
_________________
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
MIkes
Status: Offline
Joined: 03 May 2006
Posts: 1761
$poons: 409.00
Location: Melbourne
|
| Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 8:53 am Post subject: |
|
|
|
|
| grim-one wrote: | | It sounds like the tide is turning against SOPA and PIPA now. |
God I hope os. PARTY PLANNING IS NOT A PROPER JOB!
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
StorminNorman
Status: Offline
Joined: 13 Mar 2011
Posts: 809
$poons: 152.40
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
MIkes
Status: Offline
Joined: 03 May 2006
Posts: 1761
$poons: 409.00
Location: Melbourne
|
| Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 10:34 am Post subject: |
|
|
|
|
|
Wikipedia have also shifted their servers to another hoste after their previous hoste came out as backers to Sopa. Gotta love Jimmy.
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
