Drop the SOPA

[ceadertree13]

Hey Jack, great video as always, and I have an idea for another one if you are still looking. I dont know if you have seen the video floating around about the father dealing with his daughters facebook account, it has reached about 20 million views and seems pretty controversial. Would love to hear your oppinion on it! Cheers

[shkibr]

SOPA and PIPA have only been sheleved for the time being :/ They'll come back when we're distracted by the next war or celebrity death.

[thegingertrainband]

what did I come on the internet to do again? That's right I wanted to watch that thing

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[BiliousTrumpstaine]

your best yet. i think you put it in a nutshell, i may post links......

[JackYaks]

@BiliousTrumpstaine Cool Rick! My next may be better as it's about a more important issue... Dickheads doing covers of classic songs...

[BiliousTrumpstaine]

@JackYaks -sounds like 'australias got talent' is about to get a bashing...

[18garth]

Screw the vans, the black choppers have me worried!!

[JackYaks]

@18garth Only if I try to fly one of the fuckers!

[LaPlata63549]

READ BELOW FIRST:

-> World's most glorious country where freedom is essential and fundamental, some assholes are trying to ruin... Lamar Smith is one sleazy motherfucker who "feeds his family" with Hollywood and other corporations' money decided he can change the world and compromise the freedom given to us by the Constitution!

Lamar is Lame Ass Moron Antisocial Racist :D Fuck SOPA, long live Free and Open Internet!!!!!!!!!

[LaPlata63549]

Our fucked up legislators in the US want to make once glorious country something like China, North Korea, Cuba, or Uzbekistan. In those countries the Internet fully belongs to the government and the gov chooses what people can see, read, post, etc. US, on the other hand, has always been proud of its freedom of everything. We even initiated wars to bring "freedom" and "democracy" to places like Iraq, for instance. And now, all this hard work that founding fathers did to create.... ->

[mumsthewitch]

TOO BLOODY RIGHT! Sharing this.

[tyrbolo]

It has been an epic fuckup from the beginning. As the exposure by the net of copyright

infringement by the perps who proposed this lovely piece of totalitarian bullshit and a nice

sampling of the torrents going into legislators and the MPAA IP addresses have shown.

Of course this is only going to be selectively enforced on the little people like the rest of

the laws.

[gerjaison]

I am making a boring comment "GOOD"!

[JackYaks]

@gerjaison It didn't make me doze off

[jackocloud]

spot on

[JackYaks]

@jackocloud As long as it isn't one of those laser red spots

[tmscrazytaxi]

I guess sopa would end internet video game tutorials then

[JackYaks]

@tmscrazytaxi Potentially... Depends if the game makers don't like having their product promoted for free...

[tmscrazytaxi]

@JackYaks Very True.

Honestly what they are trying to push makes no sense what so ever but I guess we all have to be sorry for the Multi Millionaires that do it so tough.

[GrahamAndFriends]

love the intro! you edit you video very well.

[JackYaks]

@GrahamAndFriends I spend a bit of time on the edit in a vain effort to try and make myself not look so much of a dick...

[pjavery80]

love the new intro song!

[JackYaks]

@pjavery80 It was new a few weeks ago soon I'll have, "When are you getting a new intro song?"

[pjavery80]

@JackYaks umm I'm slow I didn't notice it... haha, I have to get into making videos before I consider having a song :D

[pjavery80]

f-king American government... oh crap.... I'm American..... shit.

[JackYaks]

@pjavery80 Maybe you should chant "U-S-A U-S-A" a few times a day to remind yourself...

[pjavery80]

@JackYaks F*@K the U-S-A oh wait crap what was that again???

[JakeDaSnakeFilms]

stupidest bills yet

[JackYaks]

@JakeDaSnakeFilms Dumbest since the Murry Bill! Oh wait... I was thinking of Bill Murry...

[MegaSCTeam]

just a big scare act! we will always find a way around it!

[JackYaks]

@MegaSCTeam The problem would have been with the sites self regulating which would have left social media hamstrung...

[keenly]

I'd like to SOPA PIPA middleton's intellectual property... I can't be the first person to say that.

[DEATH2thaSTUpid]

@keenly damm that was going to be my comment...P

[JackYaks]

@keenly The first time I've heard it!

[sloppyfella]

I was only using Youtube as an example but other websites do much the same for games and video clips etc.

[sloppyfella]

Fantastic video mate, keep them coming. On a side note this could possibly hurt the American internet sites if they have blanket bans on anything with copyright material because its the website not the uploader that will cop it. Youtube is owned by google and are making money for America by having videos of people sampling material. Google employs a lot of people to make Youtube possible so I don't reckon they would be willing to regulate every video... not cost effective.

[JackYaks]

@sloppyfella That's the point. Youtube would pretty quickly introduce a one strike policy instead of three...

[123456789impossible]

like another video said, piracy is not a criminal issue its a service issue. and like you said, look at i tunes, a businsess that most social researchers predicted would fail because it was giving people something they could get for free (like bottled water). itunes came out years after napster and limewire and all those other massive software but still made billions. itunes proved that convienient can be better than free. (New Internationalist 2010)

[JackYaks]

@123456789impossible I love having my opinion backed up by hard facts...

[andinando]

awsome channel mate i subed immediatly

[JackYaks]

@andinando You are a person of fine taste... Thank you and tell your friends...

[stuffmohammed]

agreed, but tax will be a sidenote for the powers that be as well, i download heaps of shit, but it doesn't cost the movie industry or software companies a cent, cos' i wouldn't buy their shit anyway,and if this sopa crap fucks me up i'd just wait for the movie to come to austar and copy it to dvd, as for software i would just borrow it and make my own copies...

[stuffmohammed]

but as you say, thats not really the crux of the matter, its about control, i advocate revolution in australia, its time the yanks did as well, i reckon a double grave for gillard and obama is just what the doctor ordered, plus quite a few of their sidekicks as well.

[JackYaks]

@stuffmohammed I think you're targeting the wrong side of politics for this one...

[stuffmohammed]

@JackYaks

they are all peices of shit, and at the moment the gillard government is responsible for worse things than sopa...

and dont forget the shit chinese internet filter system that fuckwit rudd and aird wanted to impose upon us all.

[JackYaks]

@stuffmohammed Love the way you're able to go off topic while sort of staying on topic. Let's agree on this one... SOPA and PIPA are not good...

[stuffmohammed]

@JackYaks

just showing proof that they are all tarred with the same brush mate...

fuck 'em...

[TrueBlueAustralian]

Well said mate, How ever i am starting to think distract the public from the real issues and try and pass stupid bills that have no hope of passing .

[JackYaks]

@TrueBlueAustralian It could be but what are we being distracted from that we're typically not paying attention to anyway?

[1Holdengirl]

Well said!! :)

[JackYaks]

@1Holdengirl Thanks you and come again!

[stewyshaw]

One word mate, greed. And I know for a fact that some big-ish recording artists actually don't care if their music is illegally downloaded, it's just those wankers in suits.

[JackYaks]

@stewyshaw Bean counters love their vegies!

[bennettjamin]

"SOPA is shitty and dumb"

-Gandhi

[JackYaks]

@bennettjamin He had a way with words that Gandhi...

[2620productions]

fab sent me, i like this! subed mate

[JackYaks]

@2620productions I hope you stick around

[keeleeng]

Spot on mate...........

The Logies are SHIT!!!

[JackYaks]

@keeleeng LOL

[ceadertree13]

Great video, I think it is so important that people know about this, and how crippling it could be. Maybe a good topic for your next video would be the idea that video games cause youth violence? Again, great video!

[JackYaks]

@ceadertree13 Worth a thought but it sounds like I may have to do a bit of study and my brain hurts as it is...

[NakedWombatStuff]

Well said.

[JackYaks]

@NakedWombatStuff I put it down to the editing...

[johnnierotten1]

well said jacko

[JackYaks]

@johnnierotten1 Cheers Johno!

[Janner87]

You really hit it spot on there. It never has been about copyright to begin with. Apparently SOPA has been postponed indefinitely, but PIPA is still around to cause havoc, so let's hope more big (honest) companies go against it.

[JackYaks]

@Janner87 So it's the typical good news and bad news scenario hey...

[Janner87]

@JackYaks Out of the frying pan into the fire, I guess.

[JackYaks]

@Janner87 I'm not counting my chickens I can tell you...

[Janner87]

@JackYaks I wish I could throw in more idioms but due to the fact that I'm German, I better let it be and just see what happens with SOPA and PIPA. Not much I can do from Canada anyway.

[TheFatAussieBarstard]

I'm lovin these mate.well said...and shared...

[JackYaks]

@TheFatAussieBarstard On ya Pete and thanks again for putting me out there!

[VloggerCat]

I had no idea this may go through...NOT good...scary in fact!

[JackYaks]

@VloggerCat Apparently it's been suspended. I put it down to this video...

[dctcool]

Fun fact that "You wouldn't steel a car" ad was actually caught out using stolen music recently.

SOPA is one of the many attempts by the big "Entertainment" Industry trying to clamp down on the Internet with the rise of independent artists and films, as well as restricting whats the big thing to talk about to drive interest to their cash cow crap.

I'd recommend checking out the Documentary "RIP: A Remix Manifesto" to see the shit these guys have pulled in the past, you can find it on YouTube

[dctcool]

@dctcool You can use Keepvid to bypass the country blocked parts.

Which is another point I should make, this legislation won't stop illegal filesharing as even if the domain name is blocked you can still bypass the block by typing in the IP Address instead

[littlegalah]

@dctcool You are right. It would not work I was on using the internet before domain names. I had forgot about this.

[JackYaks]

@dctcool I'm thinking of hiring you as my researcher!

[dildomerchant]

yes indeed the underground radio stations will need an upgraded satelite dish if this the SOAP opera is uploaded, cheers.

[JackYaks]

@dildomerchant I can't believe I didn't think of 'soap opera'!

[tomlinid]

I like your posts keep them coming.

[JackYaks]

@tomlinid I've always got something to whinge about don't you worry!

[frisky24]

whats the bet if it does pass we will end up getting the protect ip act here in australia shortly after....

[JackYaks]

@frisky24 They could even try it either way.

[MrMortenbra]

Amazing thumbnail.

[JackYaks]

@MrMortenbra I stole it off the internet... Ssshhhhh!