Discussion: Online Piracy, Net Neutrality, Killswitch, and Other Internet Issues

[BlackLantern]

I think it's a very heavy handed solution...but some version of it will get put through

copyrighted material has to have some sort of protection

 

[enterthemadness]

I think it's a very heavy handed solution...but some version of it will get put through

copyrighted material has to have some sort of protection

Just have the companies put a virus of some universally hated sitcom like Yes, Dear or Still Standing or Whitney in there to download and not the actual files...

Or better yet, for a added bonus and good sitcom, Breaking In....think about it...you just got owned by Contra Security *cue Breaking In episodes playing*

 

[BlackLantern]

make less sense with your next post


I dare you

 

[enterthemadness]

make less sense with your next post


I dare you

.....so I'm not funny.

 

[BlackLantern]

comedy is not your strong suit

 

[enterthemadness]

comedy is not your strong suit

Neither is Dane Cook's..

 

[Darthphere]

Political forum is the other way, bro.

If not the political forum, the Gaming forum would be a better spot.

How about you spend less time playing elementary school safety patrol and actually comment on the story presented?


ANYWAY, this is a very risky piece of legislation. Online piracy is running rampant but giving the government this type of power is just asking for trouble.

 

[Asteroid-Man]

You think if I stood outside the court room with a sign that read "if this bill is passed, I'l kill myself", that they'd believe me?

 

[Darthphere]

They probably would pass the bill faster.

 

[BlackLantern]

I think the hearing tomorrow is preliminary....but if it gets passed in committee, its going to the floor for a vote

and here's the thing....most of those antiquated yahoos still think the internet is a series of tubes so it stands a good chance of passing

 

[Prison Mike]

You think if I stood outside the court room with a sign that read "if this bill is passed, I'l kill myself", that they'd believe me?

They probably would pass the bill faster.

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[Asteroid-Man]

They probably would pass the bill faster.

What if I tell them God will kill them?

 

[Darthphere]

What if I tell them God will kill them?

My previous answer stands.

 

[Asteroid-Man]

What if I tell them I'll light all their money on fire and **** on their faces?

 

[Wolfwood]

The best way to combat piracy is to just make your stuff more accessible. The more you try and fight piracy, the more money you wind up wasting on a lost cause. There's just no way to beat online piracy. Companies need to seriously consider more business models that focus on putting their products online where consumers can buy them with greater ease.

 

[Donut]

If anyone that votes on or passes this bill has their job via voting. I hope they get voted out come next election time. Remember *******s its your jobs that could be on the line. ow this bill got this far ? Vote those *******s out as well

 

[Colossal Spoons]

I'm very much against this bill. Not only because the gov't may abuse this power but b/c I pirate a bit

 

[Darthphere]

Just a bit.

 

[TheDragonator]

The is to just make your stuff more accessible. The more you try and , the more money you wind up wasting on a lost cause. There's just no way to beat online piracy. Companies need to seriously consider more business models that focus on putting their products online where consumers can buy them with greater ease.

They could do what Rocksteady did with Arkham Asylum, and program bugs to break the game if it's pirated.

 

[bgates87]

They could do what Rocksteady did with Arkham Asylum, and program bugs to break the game if it's pirated.

That tactic has been around for a while, and I don't think it's really effective. At least not for long. Cracks will eventually be developed that remove or circumvent these measures, and then the only people left to be affected are the ones who have legitimate copies with the counter-piracy measures still in place. It seems that a lot of counter-piracy measures actually affect legitimate owners more than pirates.

Take those un-skippable "piracy is bad" ads at the beginning of some DVDs for example. Who do those inconvenience? Only people who actually buy the DVD. If you download a movie illegally it usually has all the ads and previews stripped away. And a while back there was a big fiasco regarding a game (Assasin's Creed 2 maybe? I'm not in to gaming so I'm out of my depth here- anyone feel free to correct this if I have details wrong) that required an internet connection to play even though it was single-player. I believe the internet connection was required to validate that the game was a legitimate copy. When the company that produced the game's servers went down, the owners of legitimate copies couldn't play the game they bought. On the other hand, any pirates who may have had a cracked version that didn't require an internet connection were completely unaffected. So who did these counter-piracy measures really punish?

 

[Teelie]

There is a balance between freedom of the internet and protection of copyright law and this legislation just ****s all over the freedom of the internet part in favor of money from the MPAA, RIAA and any other interest that can't police it's own people enough to stop pre-release piracy in the first place let alone anyone else they have no control over.

It's a wannabe nanny state legislation and giving any government that kind of power is far too much. Of course this is going to the courts if it passes and then it will suck up millions of dollars in legal fees and tie up the courts with it instead of allowing them to handle more important cases.

All these companies need to do is exploit the pirate market to their own ends but they're too afraid to. They are beholden to an outdated and increasingly obsolete system that cannot survive in this era of digital everything. Instead they want us to stick to their methods and refuse to be brought into the modern day marketplace. It's like demanding people use 8-Track when there's mp3's.

 

[the_ultimate_evil]

this is going to go through, its being pushed to hard by big name backers and fasttracked so the main public don't notice it.

its a complete **** up, places like the hype, youtube, tgwtg's will all be shut down, you may thing i'm over reacting but a bill like this would mean that the hype would have to approve every post you make just encase someone says something they shouldn't

essentially the net will become a police state, controlled by people annoyed someone didn't buy the latest bieber single

 

[the_ultimate_evil]

looks like it has already begun

 

[Donut]

I hope these idiots that vote on it loses their jobs when their time comes

 

[Destructus86]

I hope this bill gets drop kicked to the curb.