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So far as I can see Conde Nast is not on the list of SOPA supporters and has not made a statement about the law that I'm aware of. Conde Nast is part of a trade group the MPA - the Association of Magazine Publishers, that supports SOPA.

Use TOR

https://www.torproject.org/

Surprised nobody's suggested that yet. It's far more obfuscating than a proxy (if you're using a proxy). And I sincerely hope Google keeps their DNS up somewhere that SOPA doesn't extend to.

Theres 2 hours 46 minutes available for download on Megaupload here :

https://www.reddit.com/r/SOPA/comments/nevnn/sopa_house_meeting_recording/

EDIT: "keep the web open" is starting to upload parts of it on youtube

http://www.youtube.com/user/KeepTheWebOpen#p/u/0/SDT88iF2Gms

Here's a link I saw on Reddit the other day.

(Reddit post)

And this, from today: Brave GoDaddy CEO Says He’s Neither For Nor Against SOPA

I didn't need any more proof that they were being sleazy, but this should help anyone who wasn't sure before.

Streaming media is fine; it strengthens the this-is-a-service-problem argument.

Edit: Hulu just started its own show called Battleground. It's good.

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:e3NMvolQaWQJ:www.iir.com/Information_Sharing/global/resources/products/minimum_criminal_intel_training_standards.pdf+2007-mu-bx-k002&hl=en&gl=uk&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESgVtnqYNrAhDUgibv-zVn...

> We need laws to address this reality and are confident Congress can find the right balance in the coming months.

This statement is a joke. The politicians that are in favor of SOPA don't have the slightest clue about how the internet works. And they have been on the record as to saying there is no need to bring the "experts" into the discussion.

> We don't allow U.S. stores to operate that are dedicated to selling stolen goods. Why should rogue websites that break U.S. law be any different?

And nobody is saying it is different. Companies against SOPA are saying, "Yes, we need to do something about this, but SOPA is a terrible solution".

You can talk about how SOPA relies on DNS filtering. Yet, internet users don't need the domain string to connect to a site, they can just use the IP address - hence DeSOPA was created as a Firefox plugin.

Do your research on the facts though, as I am not 100%.

What about this? GoDaddy CEO publicly says after "backing down" from their pro-SOPA stance that they are neither for nor against. If he says "Ok, we heard you, we are pulling our support from SOPA" and then 2 hours later says "Actually, we haven't pulled our support from SOPA, but we also haven't pushed our support any further" then why should we back down from the boycott?

Here is some useful information to use:

CBS and Viacom are SOPA supporters. They are also the parent companies of c|net, the popular download site. Visit http://download.cnet.com/windows/ and search for "torrent" or any other file sharing or ripping tools. You will find lots of results, right this minute. C|net has passed out over 150 million copies of torrent software. So why do their parent companies complain about piracy when they are a major distributor of the tools to do it?

The answer is control. Piracy is a smokescreen to pass a law that will let them shut down the competition, even if it's legitimate. If you can go elsewhere to get your entertainment (like reading reddit, for example), you don't need big media, and they hate that. They still live in a fantasy world where media is a one way thing (television, newpapers, books). That age is over. Computers and the Internet are two way devices. Everyone who can receive, can also send. Adapt or die, except they don't want to adapt. They want to change the world to fit their fantasy.

So, time to expose the hypocrites, and their bought and paid for legislators.

yyyyyyeeeeaaaahhhhhh, I know. There is nothing in the way of real sources, just some page-grabs which wouldn't be too hard to fabricate. I wish there were sources.

edit:

Just rolled over to Cnet and searched 'Bit Torrent'

FTA: > As it stands now, people seem to be angry at Go Daddy for not succumbing to groupthink. It’s as if just thinking differently than the majority is some sort of crime.

First of all, the author of the article doesn't understand the definition of Group Think.

The folks who opposed SOPA from the beginning did the opposite of Group Think. And most who jumped on board can quickly see why SOPA is not the solution to piracy. Folks who are for SOPA are the ones committing to Group Think.

The author's name is Todd Wasserman. I am not impressed with him.

Christmas Day is the busiest movie day of the year. Let's hit Hollywood where it hurts - their profits and stay home from the movies on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

Spread the word in your social media channels and get this to the front page to harness the power of reddit.

HUGE EDIT: Mashable picked up the tweet about the campaign and featured it in this video post on their site, noting it started on reddit! (wooo, internets famous, lol) They also quoted sadgorilla's good counter-point, leaving it as a question whether people would find it to be effective. Go check out the video :)

http://mashable.com/2011/12/19/boycott-theaters-sopa/

Thanks, Mashable!

If anyone is interested, sebastianos posted a recording of the house meeting on the 15th.

Tor Project

> Tor is free software and an open network that helps you defend against a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security known as traffic analysis

most of their ads show some woman exhibiting reluctance to undressing, and then the men around her coercing her to do so anyways. of course they're misogynist. But of course, you have to understand that it's part of the company's philosophy. This is the same CEO that came out in favor of waterboarding: http://www.metafilter.com/42906/Dear-Bob-Im-glad-youre-not-in-charge

the same CEO that goes elephant hunting: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/31/bob-parsons-godaddy-ceo-elephant-hunt_n_843121.html

supporting SOPA fits in line with that philosophy. The one thing waterboarding, elephant hunting, SOPA and their misogynistic ads have in common is the element of using force against those who are far weaker than you are.

Considering that HideMyAss rolls over whenever the feds come knocking for information on one of their subscribers, they deserve to go under. Why are you people even still subscribing to this service?? They should be renamed to .

HideMyAss rolled over when the feds came knocking for an IP tied to a LulSec member. This was big news a few months ago. Read about it here.

Never trust a U.S.-based VPN with this kind of log retention policy.. It is ripe for the plucking by law enforcement and lawsuits filed by the copyright extortionists.

I am in the same boat as you. I started contacting the companies who supported this bill (see here) that I use products from. I got a response but turns out they had been dupped into signing and never supported the bill at all. It may not have been much but it felt like progress. for a list of supporters check here (but not leatherman lol the list is out of date by a day or so.)

There sure is!

Unfortunately, it's a huge list. I'm trying to pick my way through it, but it'll probably take me a few days.

Do you know where I could get a citation on this?

The FAQ for this subreddit links to this list and shows Microsoft and Apple as supporters.

I just want to get my facts straight.

i hope this helps, user "glassarrows" just posted it. Its a google doc: "SOPA for dummies" it helped me understand it a lot better. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pkjK3fllT3Oojtl3tsk5CC2cnIIKiWGodPHGdDAknjQ/edit?hl=en_US&pli=1

Do this - enjoy Google Music

Sign up as described above and after that you can acces Google Music with your account as you would normally. You can upload and listen to your music. The store is the only thing that you can't access from outside the States yet. Works like a charm for me.

Or a custom style in Stylish:

@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);

@-moz-document domain("wikipedia.org") { #mw-sopaOverlay { display: none; }

#content, #mw-page-base, #mw-head-base, #mw-head, #mw-panel, #footer { display: block !important; }

}

I was very frustrated with Giz all day today. Articles like this are completely unnecessary. Sites like Gizmodo and other Gawker affiliates have enough visitors to help the cause if they actually do something, but I felt like they just used the blackout to boost their traffic rather than show where they actually stand on the issue.

A US senator out of touch with reality AND siding with the hand with $$$?

Blasphemy!

Edit: wrong link btw?

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/entertainmentnewsbuzz/2012/01/dodd-lashes-out-at-sopa-strike.html http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/17/mpaa-ceo-chris-dodd-blackouts-turn-users-into-corporate-pawns/

Cheezburger’s Ben Huh: If GoDaddy Supports SOPA, We’re Taking Our 1000+ Domains Elsewhere .. so , basically , you get -1.

http://gizmodo.com/5870920/brave-godaddy-ceo-says-hes-neither-for-nor-against-sopa

"Which is odd, given that the company had helped form the bill: "At a certain point we became involved where we provided commentary and provisions on this legislation that addressed areas that people had concern around," Adelman said. What areas did GoDaddy help with? No comment."

even if SOPA doesn't go through, I'm still boycotting the entertainment industry --

what's more important - idiotic humour and fun - or freedom of speech, access to information and the internet? The fact that they backed it once, is enough for me to never acknowledge their existence again, and encourage others to do the same... Also if they don't get through this time, they'll try it again under different excuse.. or a different set of corporations will try get control...

I'm just going through all the children companies sites - blocking them by using "stylebot" for chrome (like FF stylish) I'll publish the code to block them all once I have a big-ish list...

https://sites.google.com/site/sopaanon/

Look at this link, completely proving the guy's point!

http://download.cnet.com/uTorrent/3000-2196_4-10528327.html

RIGHT ON THE PAGE, written by an OFFICIAL EDITOR, it says that the program is perfect for downloading torrents. That's so fucked up!

These corporation are and have been actively going after people who facilitated the distribution of copyrighted material, even if they never actually distributed any copyrighted material. BitTorrent is not inherently for downloading copyrighted material, it can just as easily be used to share an album of family photos with friends or personally made videos. If the creators of something like BitTorrent or Kazaa are liable for facilitating the distribution of copyrighted material, then what about those that distributed BitTorrent or Kazaa?

That's the crux of the argument in the video. The most prominent distributors of file sharing software were the same companies now supporting SOPA and Protect IP. They helped people download the tool they could then use to download copyrighted material. Just search "torrent" on Download.com, here. Thanks to CBS, I can find over 100 BitTorrent clients to download and then use to download more good stuff. Like my favorite episodes of NCIS (rights owned by CBS Television Studios), or an album by Will Dailey (rights owned by CBS Records), or a movie like The Mechanic (rights owned by CBS Films).

Here's the thing US law stops at the US border. So if holding pirate material on your computer is legal in your country then US shouldnt, pre or post SOPA.

That's the way it's supposed to work anyway buy the US believes or at least acts like it's laws extend to the entire earth. Such that they are currently trying to extradite a British teenager just for posting a link to pirate goods. That's fucking right, just fucking linking! And SOPA hasn't even fucking passed yet.

So chances are your in trouble already. Still SOPA makes things even worse and the US sets the tone for how freedom stomping is cool in western democracies. So if you can spread awareness about SOPA and try to help stop it however you can.

I posted a list of anti SOPA videos, petitions and articles here. Share as much as you can via your Facebook, twitter or forums. :)

• TOR Network provides a way to access web services through obfuscated, encrypted network. With no way of tracking down the physical origin of the sites, US government can't shut them down.
• Alternative DNS roots can be used to regain access to the sites tucked away via the process of DNS blocking. Apart from providing access to additional TLDs, most of these alternative roots mirror and obtain their updates from ICANN network and, assuming US starts censoring the internet, will keep on providing access to the assaulted sites.
• Move your stuff over to hosting that's not based in US.
• Start working on moving yourSELF out of US; take a look at the possibility of applying for political asylum in a non-US country of your choice.

1. Install the new version of firefox if you aren't running the most current.

2. Open firefox. Go to https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere, download https-everywhere-2.0.1.xpi

3. Click File > Open File > locate the xpi extension > install.

TPB doesn't even store torrent files, they recently switched to using only Magnet files as a way for people to download the torrent file using P2P, and they stopped running their own tracker service years ago.

Now the entire site is small enough to fit on a USB thumbdrive, and they have distributed it so that anyone, anywhere can run a version of the Pirate Bay on their own server using a CGI Proxy.

Unless that is all techno-babble subterfuge, and they really are located in the North Korean Embassy in Stolkholm.

Uh, yeah, sorry about that. I took them out cause I was sharing the same file with all my Facebook friends...didn't want them to get the wrong idea ಠ_ಠ

You can find the complete guide (with the porn) here.

Thanks for the catch! Here’s the Google doc link: https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B5Gar3cXaR_4NmIxOTFhYjQtZDY1MS00MjY4LTkwMGQtODE5YWMzMDBkMzFh&hl=en_US

Sorry for the cross-post, but I just created a doc to help me track the folks who are in support. If you'd like, go ahead and add a tab for the folks who are in opposition so we can keep track of them too.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AtBal24vJdWwdHU5WjF4Y0VEcmR6TmxzTTdBLU5fSWc

Just called both of my Senators. Took less than 10 minutes. Unlike most issues I call on, neither staffer had a response ready when I asked the Senator's stance on the PROTECT-IP Act. This may mean that they are still waiting to make up their minds. They need to hear from you.

For one Senator, I went into great detail; I used the story that Tom's Hardware had posted (see below) as well as my own feelings. For the other, I just gave a quick rundown of why PROTECT-IP is bad, including bad for businesses that rely on the internet, and bad for him if I post a link to a Rick Astley video to his facebook page.

Call your congresscritters!

Tom's Hardware: >As an example, imagine a user posts a video clip to the Tom’s Community of a step-by-step guide on how to set up water cooling on an overclocked i7 CPU. Playing in the background behind the voiceover is “Derezzed” by Daft Punk. The studio representing Daft Punk could issue a complaint, without being required to notify us or request a take-down. Tom’s Hardware would be liable and prosecuted solely on a good faith assertion of the copyright owner, without notification, with the site operators subject to possible jail time for not preventing the video from being posted. In short order, the http://www.tomshardware.com/ domain in the United States would no longer resolve to our servers and visitors attempting to come to Tom’s Hardware would be redirected to a “This site under review for piracy/copyright violations” page.

Tom's Hardware, an extremely resourceful and reliable computer hardware site, put out this statement recently. It explains what SOPA is, giving easy-to-understand examples. Might help in your preparation of talking points.

http://www.ehow.com/how_2096900_recall-us-senator.html

Take a look at the bottom:

You will be fighting an uphill battle to recall a U.S. Senator. No member of Congress has ever been recalled in the history of the United States.

It's going to be better to vote him out of office since he has to fight for it every two years. We have to fight the gerrymandering though.

It's not that simple, there is a file on your computer called the hosts file that can direct your traffic to a specific IP address rather than doing a DNS lookup. There is also a firefox plugin that does this for you, but under SOPA they are making distribution of it illegal.

I just wanted to mention the Desopa addon for Firefox I found it the other day when looking a pandora add on. It basically reroutes you defeating measures proposed in the bill. It's important to show that the bill itself is moot as it is easily subverted. There is a wide array of ways to subvert these measures which shows how poorly designed the SOPA bill is even for its original tyrannical purposes.

Gizmondo says that it looks otherwise. Not a lot has been released at this point, but it appears that the bill is even stronger than previous efforts:

http://gizmodo.com/5884416/is-the-senate-trying-to-sneak-in-a-new-sopa-bill

It appears that it's SOPA again, only this time it's masquerading as cybersecurity rather than copyright protection.

Here is a video from TechCrunch where the Viacom General Counsel argued for SOPA against the Center For Democracy and Techology

http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/21/tctv-sopa-debate-part-ii-viacom-cdt-square-off-over-due-process/

Hope that helps!

Ms. Lofgren, First off thank you for standing up against/suggest alternatives to this terrible bill. Its was nice to watch someone who knew what they were talking about there. I hope that you can get some professionals in there to talk about the internet so the rest of the committee could understand. If not, I hear there is a Barnes and Nobles near by with copies of this.

P.S. 000.000.123.123 is a legit ip and i love you for knowing that.

Most of those articles dont even mention google. Why do you keep babbling about google non-sensically? I guess your trolling.. I should have known better.

As to USA's legal influence on western democracies, I'll leave this here. but it doesn't mention google so I doubt you'll read it, sigh..

They would seem to disagree since they voted down a proposed amendment yesterday that would forbid them from taking an IP down.

https://plus.google.com/107736112341654154705/posts/ahXQoViem29

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/isps-versus-sopa-anti-piracy-bill-could-force-severe-privacy-invading-measures/63924

They're not stupid, the people pushing this bill will get what they want.

I agree though, it will be pretty fun for a while if they do this.

Why?

>Huh — whose comedy network of sites such as I Can Has Cheezburger and Fail Blog attracts 20 million visitors per months — is certainly in the latter camp. > >... > >Huh is not alone in his disdain of the legislation. Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt last month called SOPA “draconian,” suggesting that any measure that would force ISPs to remove URLs from the Web is nothing more than censorship. > >Yesterday, Paul Graham, the influential angel investor and operator of Y Combinator, said he would no longer invite supporters of SOPA to the tech incubator’s Demo Day. > >... > >But many Internet companies — like Cheezburger — are lining up against it. Those include eBay, LinkedIn, AOL, Zynga, etc.

Source: Cheezburger CEO Ben Huh calls SOPA ‘cancer to the free web,’ threatens to ditch GoDaddy

Apparently Congress reconvenes on the 21st.

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111216/11102617108/sopa-markup-runs-out-time-likely-delayed-until-2012.shtml

http://mashable.com/2011/12/16/stop-online-piracy-act-house-postponed-wednesday/

Though thinking about it, there's still time to convince the members of the House it's a bad idea.

I still maintain that a one day strike won't drastically affect the profits of the studios. Real problems for the studios can happen with a long term strike. If nobody goes to the movies for a month they might get the message.

If anyone is interested, sebastianos posted a recording of the house meeting on the 15th.

I'm suprised nobody has mentioned this little utility > <strong>HostsMan</strong> is very easy to use for those who might not want to fiddle with their system folders on windows. Altough it's not a malware scanner it will help you out with editing the hosts and to check for possible hijacks, also it can automatically update the hosts file to block harmful websites. You can get it here > abelhadigital.com/hostsman ... and it's freeware :)

Content does not come just from the industry. That's one of the most misleading misconceptions out there. Content existed long before the industry and long before copyright; it is therefore independent of an industry and a copyright system. And content exists right now outside the copyright system in the form of public domain or Creative Commons music. And will exist regardless of what sort of paradigm will take shape in the future. Humans are creators. In fact, I'll put my music where my mouth is: You can listen to and download all of my music for free :-).

Piracy is a <em>service</em> problem. Gabe Newell, co-founder of the hugely successful video game distributor, Valve will vouch for that. This isn't news. This issue is created by companies that can't properly deliver to their users. Consider online video game publishers who have adopted the recently popular "Free to Play" business model. These companies allow anyone to play their game for free and generate enormous revenue out of these games, especially when they provide exceptional services. When customers don't approve, they don't pay up. They still play though, which is a tax on those companies' servers - not much different from piracy. Yes, there are going to be lazy cheapskates who don't care to support the creators of what they love and end up looking for any free alternative. These are not most people who pirate.

Another way to look at it is that Valve as well as successful publishers who use "Free to Play" have adapted beyond the GameStop style retail business. They are learning how to better accommodate their users and are acting accordingly. As such they are not suffering from piracy nearly as much as the crying music/movie industry.

People know when a product sucks and is poorly supported. In most of those cases, they won't care to open their wallets.

there is a link to download it on the youtube page but.... FOR ANY ONE WHO WANTS AS RINGTONE I made it easy. I cut it in iRingtones to the part i felt necessary. enjoy :)