Titan Network: SOPA Blackout

for those of you that aren't subbed to TEDtalks for some reason still

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h2dF...d4FUAAAAAAAJAA

this is a talk on where SOPA and PIPA came from and why, it's impact, and their history...

For the Titannetwork forums... It's not letting me register for it :/ not sure if it's liked to the Titannetwork password or game password either.... Just thought I'd kinda point that out since I was reading the forums there after being redirected from the paragon wiki site being blacked our

You log in with your Titan key.

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Originally Posted by Dispari I don't know why Dink thinks she's not as sexy as Jay was. In 5 posts she's already upstaged his entire career.

Bad joke inbound! You have been warned.

All this talk of politics is kinda dull, but this bill is SOPArific.

On a serious note, I wholeheartedly support the blackout, thank you to the Titan Network team for helping bring this serious issue to the attention of players who might otherwise have remained blissfully unaware.

Right. That's why everybody did the SOPA blackout--because there was no chance it would ever pass. It was just for fun. -_-

This highlights more than anything how vaguely legislation is written and how many examples of unintended consequences can be shown once you get programmers and engineers involved.

A few years back my state passed some law about outdoor burning. It was so vague that the boy scout camp couldn't light camp fires and fire departments couldn't do training with sample fires.

As for SOPA/PIPA, if defeated it will be tried again like the various "protect the children from the Internet or video games" laws that keep getting churned out then thrown out. You can't put the Genie back into the bottle. The Internet, once bandwidth has reached the levels we have today, is kicking to many existing business models in the junk and it's not just the RIAA or MPAA but network television, radio and cable monopolies. Society is moving from a passive "take what we offer, when we offer it" model to an on demand "I want to see/hear this now" model. Face it there are decades of infrastructure build around these old business models and unless they learn to adapt, they will only encourage people to use pirate sites to provide their entertainment their way.

Attempts in the past to provide what people are craving, Hulu and Netflix for example, have become too successful for their own good. Network TV is now shying away from hosting the last X episodes on Hulu or having a ridiculous delay, because it affects a shows ratings which is how a current show's success is determined. Netflix is going to be charged a ridiculous amount to stream content because the content owners felt they weren't getting a big enough cut while broadband providers, many cable, are capping the downloads so people won't drop cable.

There is simply too much money involved in entertainment industries and the other businesses built on them to convince them to give up, or at the very least try to understand what the Internet is and how to craft legislation that isn't as vague.

This is all to preserve the existing entertainment business models that have evolved over nearly a century.

Can't wait to see the mischief that "matter compilers" ala The Diamond Age will do.

Watch that TEDtalk video I posted...

also if you look at the numbers about the movie industry they've held at the same profit margins for the last 10 years soooo the basis of it is BS to begin with.

That's more of a response/protest to Megaupload/MegaVideo getting seized/owners arrested.

As for tricking people on the Internet, see Nigerian Princes.

Told you guys.

They are legion lol.

Anonymous is not some ragtag group, they are not really hactivists, they are not ''a person..'' and the fault can't purely be blamed on them alone. In the sake of War throughout history did talking always get the message across? No? Yeah. Could there been an agreement on both sides if the parties were willing to reach some middle ground? Possibly, but as we all know neither side usually wants to walk 500 miles to reach said ground. They want some leverage over the other side, or to keep what the other is saying No to the most.

In this case, you can do the blackouts, you can have protests, you can meet with your mayor or governor, send letters to your senate but is that really going to solve anything? Partially, yes. However, in this day and age you have to show a little muscle, a little flex, and cunning. I for one do not see this as a catastrophe or nerd's revenge but rather a militant demonstration using the tools available. Strategy. Sun Tzu's upgraded model.

There's many ways to get to your enemy defensively, but every now and again you have to prove a point through cyber warfare so to catch the media's attention. Ever notice how the media shifts from ''Anonymous did this!"' to '' Protests around the world...'' almost immediately after? Why? Because attention that was needed had been done by a few so the bigger picture would be grasped.

Black Outs did their part, but for the News to catch on you need something exciting that makes people go, '' OH I HAVE TO WATCH THAT..'' as opposed to, '' Oh, they're rallying peacefully? Lets see what else is on. ''

It's the mind set of the peoples today, just like in the news a mass majority won't watch something or read about something if it doesn't have a formidable action involved in either a gruesome manner or destructive way.

Yup. Welcome to 2012, and Anon is just warming up.

Or you could have the media not controlled by the people who are in favor of the bill being protested... Of course they are always going to take any negative thing they can to make those protesting look bad.

Meanwhile, Harry Reid (D-NV) has released a statement to say he's postponing next Tuesday's Senate vote on PIPA.

This is what democracy in action looks like.