Senator Orrin Hatch was the author of the original COICA (Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act). He now thinks the Government should start blowing up computers without due process.
If the entertainment industry wants to go hardcore after pirates they need to play by the rules. They don't get to overturn due process and equal protection because they feel like it. They don't get to say "Well, we should be allowed to just ACCUSE someone and have them punished without actually having to PROVE anything."
I am gonna keep this short and sweet, Sopa is something put in order by the government because they are greedy. Youtube has had this happen before, so far, they can't take it down.
@TotalHalibut Greetings from the North Uk. I have some questions for you that i hope you wont mind answering on public record. Do you TotalHalibut accept that MikeMozart provided credible evidence of the companies complaining about piracy and trying to push this act are guilty of allowing piracy themselves? Do you also accept that all over the net people are opposing this bill? Thankyou for your time
I disagree with this vid. You say none of this is new, but that the companies were *actively promoting* piracy was news to me. I consider the video valuable (though I'll concede it might not be the /first/ one to point someone to who hasn't heard of SOPA before), and it certainly raises a challenge to the notion that "everyone agrees piracy is a problem, but..." arguments I've been hearing. No, hypocrite companies pushing for bullshit legislation is the problem, not piracy.
@desertasophy Michelle would have to disable comments on just about everyone of her videos then. Just randomly clicking on one of her videos and scrolling the comments, there's always someone who is more than happy to bring up animal testing, Lancôme, and her involvement with the company.
Seperate but related, her Lady Gaga and Disney makeup tutorials might come into question under SOPA.
@desertasophy CWA's support likely has to do with the pharmaceutical protections in SOPA. They've spoken out about the morning after pill and stem cell research.
Not sure why the ATR was involved. Only that Grover Norquist once strongly supported SOPA and Lamar Smith boasted about it. Norquist has since backpedaled.
I come up with nothing about L'oreál. Their involvement could put Michelle Phan in kind of a bind. Both L'oreál and Lancôme are named as supporters.
It truly is a sad day when the majority of the world is just literally sitting back thinking this isn't such a big deal, choosing to treat this like some silly internet argument..
You have the power of your freedom as individuals. Through one united voice we can all solidify our freedom. Sadly a lot of ignorant people would only be clued in once the reality of SOPA+PIPA was made legal.. by then it's going to be too late for simple words.
Anyone who disliked this supports SOPA, therefore, they support internet censorship and the removal of sites such as Youtube, Wiki, etc. So any dislikers should just get the fuck off the internet.
1. Every one who is involved in piracy will be arrested.
2. Every website will be taken off making every on pissed off!
3.For the companies that want this, so that we will buy their stuff. Every one will boycott it or all the people that were arrested won't be able to buy, making the bill useless
4.We are in a crisis and they try to come up with solutions and we get THIS!?
In my opinion the secret weapon will be the money that the facebook , google , pay pal that makes it makes the economy better and it gives the government taxes or money . But the entertainment companies give so much smaller amount of help in the economy! so we should use that on the debate.
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I think SOPA should pass - sure it has some negative effect on the freedom of speech and what not - but the core idea is to stop piracy...
Problem is there is no other way to do it - people keep saying sopa is wrong, but have you come up with a good way to stop what is basically the biggest thieving opportunity in the world? If SOPA is the way to do it - go along with it
@TheViolander Fuck you. Your the reason we can't have nice things in life. SOPA is definatly not the way to do it. It basicly will delete the internet and turn all life on earth into sheeps for the slaughter. They are hypocrites, the people supporting this bill are the original people who created piracy. They proffited off of piracy, and now they want even more money by sueing the people who learned how to pirate after they taught them too.
@darkmankill1 No need to be unpleasant. I am simply saying that piracy will sooner or later destroy or at least severely harm the industry of game and movies - it's a big part of the reason most games don't come out on PCs and do on consoles.
@TheViolander are you fucking serious?? sopa will fucking destroy everything we knew about internet and plz dont tell you have never downloaded music,movies or a game because we all have! dickhead
@alexfreestyleboy yes Sopa is structured in a wrong way and needs quite some adjustment so it cannot be used by big corporations to profit and etc. - but at the same time as i stated SOMETHING needs to be done about piracy and unless you have a good solution, you shouldn't scream 'this is bullshit!' - first come up with something valid
@TheViolander how about leave everything like it is? piracy will exist no matter what usa does... they will only take a shit on 25 years of progress... if they dont like piracy then make cheaper games or music and films.. ffs we pay 10 euro for a single movie at the cinema...
@TheViolander You are brave to voice such an unpopular opinion. I may not agree with you but I can see you're concern about piracy. I believe there is always more than one way to anything and I hope that we might be able to come up with something less drastic.
@charmeleon16 Thanks, the first person to not swear before posting )
I agree there is a BETTER way and perhaps it should be found, but what my point is - we shouldn't say "stop SOPA" - before we have a good alternative to the problem.
Law works in a way where some of our rights are constricted by it (to go to the extreme - it's like saying I cannot kill a person - where is my freedom!)
@TheViolander your point is use a less than adequate solution because we haven't got an alternative? That's really short sighted. Besides when freedoms are removed through laws, rarely are they reversed. I don't see the patriot act being recalled any time soon, piracy will be around for a long time, so will SOPA, eventually it will be exploited, it may not be this government, or the next, but it will happen.
@predwarlord My point is that we need a solution very soon and unless YOU (by you I meant people that are against sopa) have that great solution that doesnt impede any rights - by all means suggest it, otherwise the government should do anything they can to immediately counter one of the biggest channels for thievery.
Ultimately every law restricts your freedom in a way, why should this one be so different.
@predwarlord It must be made to be unexploitable - true, but maybe instead of trying to stop the law, the main point of which is to stop thievery, people should focus on influencing this forthcoming law to be fair.
@TheViolander Furthermore, why should the honest customer always be the one who gets more hassle than pirates? Look at download platform Steam from Valve, they provide PC Gamers with better service than any pirate with a torrent.
Once purchased, games can be downloaded as many times and on as many PC's as you want, game downloads are fast & patches are downloaded automatically, great sales, chatting while gaming and sometimes also Steam Cloud (back-up save files on the web).
@Black8035 The drawbacks your described are a necessary evil. Right now piracy is a norm for most of us (hell one guy a comment below just said we should ignore it and that it will always be, which proves this point). That should not be the case, that should simply be battled. In a war (in this case on piracy) to make something right people suffer, sometimes innocent, it's often the result that matters, is it not?
@TheViolander What I wanted to say with my second comment was that the only fair way to combat piracy is to provide customers with a better service than some pirate could ever do. Even then you will still have some piracy, because if you have honest customers, you will also have people who will pirate. They're two opposite sides of the same coin, they cannot exist without each other. It's the same with war and peace etc.
However, you can always try to minimize something.
@Black8035 Unfortunately honest customers are rare. People are greedy bastards and will often choose to take something free rather than pay for it.
If giving a good service somehow battled piracy we would have seen significant result by now, but piracy has been increasing at a huge rate for the past 5 years.
Also just because two sides of the coin exist - it does not mean we should not do our best to eradicate the worse one, and in a way, a flawed one it may be - sopa is that way.
@TheViolander sopo is not the way to fight piracy. also it's the corparations that are being greedy by stoping anything copyrighted and can in fact claim that things that arnt copyrited ARE on youtube and remove them which they have done. as a republican like to do my research on bills like this that form a major impact and i can say that this is just a sstrangle hold on the freedom of speech and a complete way to save the corparations an extra $10. so sopa is in no way a good bill
@7777TheShade Do you know the way? I assume that you do not, so untill you do find a way to fight crime without any negative effects perhaps you can put off fighting against a solution that you do not like.
@TheViolander i know that there are to many cons and only one pro to this bill. the negetive affects outway the positive affects. That is the basic way to determen if something is bad. Also this bill is just useing the piracy thing to convence people this is good but really it's about elemenating compotion. usually I like to defend corporations but this bill is crossing the line. And it would be better if we had a bill that didnt give absolute power to people over the internet to corperations
@TheViolander *continuing* and didnt allow people to just take down a website. now if a website uses a logo or claims a song is theres when it isnt they should get a notice to remove that content 7 days in advance and if it isnt then the website should be taken down but a company should also proove that it is theres so they dont take down videos that arnt like the mega upload video. Oh so i do know tha solution. So I win you don't I'm a republican so I know waht I'm talking about.
@7777TheShade you know solution to only one of the many problems that piracy and internet brings to copyright material. In your little so called solution you had no mention of torrents, which already operate under the radar (also the system in place NOW, is almost exactly like the one you described and it hasn't been working for a while.
So bottom line you came up with a half assed solution to a big ass problem.
@7777TheShade *continuing* And just cause the number of cons are higher it does NOT mean the bad outweigh the good. In fact the good here is potentially destroying or at least fatally harming piracy, as opposed to a little harm on the freedom of speech which as I have stated before - every law somehow restricts your freedom (eg there is a law in place that you cannot publish anything that seeks support or encourages racist movement - some might argue that attacks freedom of speech.
@TheViolander actully (and i'm sure most people agree with me on this) the cons do outway the ONLY ONE FUCKING PRO...excuse my language. Also iracy isnt really that important at the time. we should be worrying about our 14 trillion dollar debt and getting some of our jobs back from over seas. This bill also will take down google face book wiki youtube all maybe even yahoo . Thats 5 companies obliterated thanks to a bill. good job. really your an ideot if you think this bill will help anything.
@TheViolander *continuing* it's just the music buisness and artest complaining that they half to wate a month to buy there private island. Also this bill could potentally cause companies to loose more money than they do from piracy beacouse of how much the intenet advertises and people doing reviews or let's plays. sopa does so much harm and soooooooo very very little good that in the end will cause a problem worse than they had and loose more money than they are now.
@7777TheShade Your main argument is that not so many individuals benefit from a potential eradication of piracy - with that I agree. But this is a policy that CAN and most likely WILL harm piracy in a major way, and no this is not done for YOUR benefit (nor mine) but that is how laws work, they seldom work to improve one individual's life - rather they improve society as a whole.
and that is a big enough tick in the pros column to balance our some cons IN my opinion.
@7777TheShade Also do not confuse politic and economic turmoil policies with criminal ones, they are made by different people and no time is 'lost', and here also forgive me for my rudeness but most things are Americans fault, your government as we all know goes where it is not wanted so now it is ffed with huge military bills of over a few billions and overall enormous debt. Regardless I am not discussing the countries here, I am discussing a potential law and its upside.
@TheViolander how are most thing americans fault. you mean iraq ? you do know that they attacked rwo allied nations and there leader was killing his own people with gasses. we helped the people by killing a dictator who didnt give two shits about his people. and this bill WILL effect the market and really it's the companies fault for provideing a poor service. the solution to piracy is converting them to legitament buyers. and even if sopa passes they will find a way
@7777TheShade hahaha, you actually (ACTUALLY) believe that, dont you?
and i mean the general outward people of USA of going where it is not wanted, it is a fact that American benefited billions from going into iraq (mostly from oil) and let's not forget Vietnam and more recent Afghanistan and even more recent F15 business of where america simply DOESNT mind its own business. You helped yourself..
@7777TheShade And ye this will affect the market - in that it will make it more profitable...
no matter how you look at it a harmful strike to piracy will always make markets more profitable and that is essentially what should happen. American should be more happy about that than anyone with the mass consumerism that is your major motivation.
@TheViolander NO! it will cuase harm to the market. youtube is where many people find out about games or songs. like me. i listend to weazer on youtube so i bought it on itunes, i saw jessie cox play skyrim liked it and now i have the game. i saw yogscast do minecraft SO I BOUGHT MINECRAFT! minecraft sales will go down majorly because they dont have TV commercials. also what about people who make a living makeing youtube video's. THOSE ARE JOBS BEING LOST and really pirates will find a way.
@TheViolander countinue* as a steriotypical republican who's good with buisness i can say this bill will cost companies money, customers and kill some major companies! do you want that just to stop a handful of people who pirate a couple songs. REALLY!?! and this will cost companies more money than whats being taken currently. and all you do is say you:IT'LL STOP PIRACY IT'LL STOP PIRACY! BUY TAKING AWAY A MAJOR SORCE OF FREE ADVERTISMENT COMPANIES MAKE MORE! IGNOR FACTS! DERP DERP..,
@7777TheShade a handful of people who pirate a couple songs? are you goddamn serious? there are million of piracy related acitivities involving songs and game. MOST games right now are made on consoles only because the companies realise what loss they are making by putting it on the PC and exposing it to the huge thievery channel that is piracy. Piracy is already fatally harming the industry.
@7777TheShade *continued* And as a republican you should know that no company WILL purposefully hurt a good advertisement opportunity, company A is not going to be stupid enough as to report a channel that shows good play of their game and therefore is a source of advertisement.
SOPA is not going to be a strict regime (NOT ANYMORE, it has already been hugely tuned down, if you follow the news) the current sopa is much better.
@TheViolander AS A REPUBLICAN! iknow when something is harful in the long run. if there is ANY copyright of anything the entire site will be taken down getting rid of everything. so if there is a song let's say New Divide by linken park in a Rift dungen video. YOUTUBE GOES bleh....what the company sees is oh this person likes my music and is useing it in a video! IM LOOSING MONEY! there. as for the new sopa i'll if it's anything like the first one...it'll be bad
@7777TheShade ok now you are just making stuff up... As I said before a company has to take down the video, it wont be automatic, and a company is NOT stupid enough to take down free advertisement, IT IS NOT!
And no SOPA is not more harmful, at least not in the way it matters. Loss of some freedom is the cost of law and order and good society.
If the entertainment industry wants to go hardcore after pirates they need to play by the rules. They don't get to overturn due process and equal protection because they feel like it. They don't get to say "Well, we should be allowed to just ACCUSE someone and have them punished without actually having to PROVE anything."
@sharprifleman that's a good question, but I don't think there is a clear line.
ultimately when you elect a government you should leave it up to them to weigh the pros and cons of such dilemmas.
I am merely giving my opinion on that SOPA is not as bad or wrong as people make it out to be. (and most, not all, but most people are doing it because they fear they might not be able to download a free movie anymore)
@sharprifleman because people in general are greedy fucks, that's a fact - and I can bet money that majority of people simply realise that with sopa it's pretty much an axe to any torrent related activities or free streaming.
@TheViolander what if another company sees someone talking good about another company and bad about them. they would take it down and no im not makeing stuff up i know what im talking about unlike you and yes companies think that they are going to make more moeny by getting rid of piracy at the cost of advertiseing and if there is ANY copywritted material lets say a song the whole site gos down destroying othercompanies free advertisement. god LISTEN TO THE FACTS!!!!!
@7777TheShade that's what should happen, if someone is using a copyrighted song the site SHOULD get taken down, after all the administrator should either be responsible for thsoe who post on his/her site or simply not allow it. As for talking 'bad' about a company - you are making that shit up :) if i were to simply mention a firm, I am not breaking any copyright infringement law, nor would I be under SOPA, seriously dude stop making shit up to support your facts :)
@TheViolander what about the stated mega upload video :) talking bad about them claimed copyright and took it down. im not makeing crap up. also its the persons fault for uploading that not the administrator. why should the entire site and users be punished for one person so a company could takedown whatever. your seriously stupid by saying im makeing crap up simply to avoid the facts
@7777TheShade if you run a big shopping centre and somebody comes in and starts selling crack - you will be criminally charged, it's the same story with the website, you are an administrator - you are responsible for what's happening in your domain.
@7777TheShade yes the person will get kicked out arrested but the owned of the mall will also be criminally charged, because it is HIS responsibility to oversee what goes on in his place of business, it is the same with websites if someone is doing illegal shit on your website - your fault as well you should get fined or have website taken down.
@TheViolander WOW MAN. WOW...SERIOUSLY? Yes, the Mall has SOME responsibility over what happens around. They need security guards, but REALLY. Just because some jerk decides to rob something or murder someone there isn't the MALL's fault. You think they can jolt there at light speed? That means malls across the world can be shut down because someone stole a dollar-worth rubber ball or some crap like that.
@BaxterXenon you have completely changed the scenario that I have described.... read before you say something stupid.
I was comparing this to the situation where one of the mall's stores is used to sell drugs - therefore the mall owners should be responsible and prosecuted. What you described is a crime happening within a certain space....
Having said that yes I think websites should be shut down if they fail to filter piracy material
@TheViolander Okay fine. I read it wrong, but think about it. I think about a thousand videos stream into YouTube daily. You REALLY think the YouTube guys will spend all of their time trying to watch over a million possibly a BILLION videos trying to see if there's piracy? I can understand if some pirate website steals a game recently released, I can understand if YouTube just let a guy make money off of his stolen video. But really, SOPA and ACTA are going too far with their act.
@BaxterXenon heh here is another matter though. No I do not think they will spend all of their time doing that, but I do (and i say this honestly) think they should, people running the website should be responsible for what they allow to run on their website, I made the comparison to the mall for a valid reason, I was comparing how it is in the real world and how it should be in the electronic one. The thefts or crimes in both are very much identical, why should the laws not be?
@TheViolander The scenarios are actually VERY different. Opening a store in a mall is presumably a (relatively) large financial investment, and will in most cases involves lots of legal agreements. Opening an account and uploading something to e.g. Youtube is done in a few clicks, totally free and with no monetary investment.
On a side note digital crime is not like real-world crime, since the actual copy that is stolen didn't cost anything to produce.
@TheRealDezuman to your first post I say this - you are saying how things are and because of that they cases are different, that is silly since just because atm it is EASIER to commit alleged crime - does not mean the laws shouldnt prosecute them or make it more difficult.
And digital crime is a lot similar to real-world (the cost argument is invalid because even though there is no marginal cost to producing a digital version - there is still the overall cost of that project)
Do you think a mall chain would fund the opening of stores in rivaling malls to discredit them, with the risk of it being traced to them because of the money and legalities involved? I don't think so.
Do you think an influential corporation would with minimal investment and total anonymity get even the smallest competitor shut down, no strings attached? Of course they would!
@TheRealDezuman 2nd post: I think anything is capable of anything it is really up to the personal preference of any organization of how much crime to commit for the search of profit.
And as answer to your 2nd question - an influential corporation has no incentive to spend any amount of money to shut down a minor competitor. (such projects have negative Net present value)
In the end the problem is that the internet and digital media in general is so vastly different from anything ever before, and has only really exploded during the last ten years or something. As it usually is with new stuff, it spawns new actors and encourages innovation. However the Old Brontosaurus Corporations, in the purest old-European colonial spirit, ventures to stake out their claims with the catchphrase: "We pay the politicians donuts, die SUCKERS!"
@TheRealDezuman They are different in many aspects, but ultimately it comes down to copyright infringement and the potential of these acts to stop this crime.
Digital and real-worlds copies are just different ways to carry out this particular crime.
And to compare how they are fundamentally different is taking this argument completely off tracks and does not relate to my initial point at all.
@TheViolander The problem is if you even link to copyrighted material the site will be shut down. That may be too extreme. Also sometimes it is too difficult to prevent copyrighted material from being posted on websites due to the amount of material you would have to search through.
@TheViolander I think he is actually talking about whistle-blowing. Companies probably don't want you to spread information about their alleged dishonest or illegal activities.
@Patrick128000 Well Assassin's Creed Brotherhood and Revelations only had a one time activation. I have ACR on PC and it went fine.
Anno 2070 had DRM that limited the number of times you could activate your copy (whenever you would switch your gpu - max of 3x), now they've removed it, although the restriction of motherboard changes are still there (max of 3x).
For future games, I'd recommend to keep an eye on the DRM that's being used.
Well, I don't know for you, but people losing their jobs (I know a lot of people that do Let's Plays and youtube pays them) could lose their jobs, and even face prison for posting videos about games. And Wikipedia would be shut down.
You sound more like a greedy fuckhead. Big companies are already making a lot of money, hell, South Park is one of the most downloaded series, and their Creators said that they're still making a lot of money and it doesn't bother them.
So basically you're saying: fuck freedom, we need more money. And if SOPA pass, that will do more damage than good, in fact, there is no good in SOPA.
@OniGlalie There is no need to be unpleasant or to twist my words. I am saying sometimes it is necessary to sacrifice freedom for order and law (which is what law is essentially about).
and the upside of SOPA is a potential strike on piracy, you should know that.
Also as i have stated many times SOPA is flawed, and needs to be addressed so that it cannot be exploited, but at this moment in time it is the closest we have come to potentially close down Internet piracy
We should all take this seriously. Like videos that are going against SOPA. We need to raise awareness of stopping SOPA. If we don't, the internet will be messed up. Youtube, Google, etc... WILL BE AFFECTED GREATLY! We need to protest against SOPA! Like this and tel your friends and copy and paste this. Please, help us and STOP SOPA!
WE SUPPORT OBAMA'S SWEEPING NDAA/SOPA LEGISLATION.
STRENGTHENING NATIONAL SECURITY AGAINST PATRIOTIC HOMEGROWN TERRORISTS AND THWARTING PIRACY IS A GROWING PROBLEM OUR DEMOCRACY MUST FACE HEAD-ON.
OBAMA'S PASSAGE OF NDAA AND PENDING SOPA ARE STEPS IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION, BUT ELIMINATING PIRACY AND CENSORING STATESIDE TERRORISTS MUST REMAIN THE PRIMARY FOCUS OF FEDERAL GOVT.
WE SALUTE PRESIDENT OBAMA, WHOSE OATH TO MEET THE SAFETY, PROSPERITY AND LONG TERM NEEDS OF EVERY CITIZEN HAS NOW BEEN MET.
you know what that's not the point he was trying to get across, stop over anylizing and look at the bills at what they are, a Nazi takeover of our country, our country has been slowly been descending into a dictatorship, and since obama took over the country we have started to move about 100 X faster into a dictatorship, this will take over control the internet and SAY what Can or CAN NOT go on, you think this is good, your youtube videos will no longer exist my friend, no matter what you say
TotalBiscuit, no offence, I think you're a great guy, but I think your SOPA video was just as biased as his. You kept saying why it was bad, and didn't provide any point for the other side.
The lobbyists will only see themselves as trying to protect companies from piracy- I highly doubt they want to purposefully kill off the Internet.
I personally don't support SOPA and PIPA, however, I think it is in the interests of fairness, balance, and good argumental technique to see both sides .
All boils down to corporate greed and control. Killing freedom of expression on the internet would for many people put them out of work. New artists would not get seen or heard.
Hypocritical? Wow as soon as you said that I stopped your video. Your an idiot, and this video shows your lack of intelligence. He has way more evidence than you do, you don't even have an argument here. Your not telling us anything other than the general public should know more about SOPA. Keep posting Video game videos, your probably a lot better at that..
@pope000 If you stopped the video, haven't bothered listening to the rest of it and haven't watched his other video.. you're clearly the one who is an idiot.
Seriously, brighten up and use your brain. This a means to piss you off, more of a means to convince you to think. Watch his videos which have been created with an intelligent view, not a toy reviewer who uses scare tactics as a means to get his own warped point of view across which is based on things everybody already knows.
SOPA was proposed by the US representative Lamar Smith ... a 64 year old talking corpse that has obviously never used the internet in order to see the benefits of free knowledge and information ... someone assassinate that fucker ... it's the same if someone that can't drive proposed a ban on cars ...
Hey Google "Wikipedia SOPA blackout seems to get results in senate" and choose 'suntimes.com' <<<<< and Read The Article. The senate abandoned SOPA (at least for now). But PIPA (PROTECT IP act) is still going on!!!!
@IBeJacob watch his other video, posted slightly earlier than this one about why he thinks SOPA and PIPA are incredibly dangerous and have to be stopped...it's probably in the related videos section and it has more than 2 million views
I want you to get mad! I don't want you to protest, I don't want you to riot, I don't want you to write to your congressman (actually do write to your congressman) cause I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about SOPA or PIPA. All I know is that first, you've got to get mad! So I want you to get up right now, go to the window, open it, stick your head out and yell: I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GONNA TAKE THIS ANYMORE!!!
@rgryan1000 lamar smith, wont be surprised if hes found dead if sopa gets passed -_-. hopefully anon will intervene. I never liked what they did but if it comes that they have to step in for the people, ill just be here cheering them on for helping the world
i hope that SOPA and ACTA THE FUCKING UNDERSTANDS HOW MANY FUCKING PEOPLE HATES THEM!
TheScroofie 13 hours ago
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AgOdorControl 2 days ago
if they pass sopa they will have a lot of suicides in the world of not it will go more of a steady level
kevinbishop89 4 days ago
I bet the illuminati has something to do with it
optimusrocks1 4 days ago
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optimusrocks1 4 days ago
IT'S THE ILLUMINATI!
TwoGamingPandas 1 week ago
@TwoGamingPandas It seriously is
optimusrocks1 4 days ago
THE UNITED NATIONS WANTS TO CONTROL THE WEB NOW! LOOK IT UP AND SPREAD THE WORD!
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SOPA backwards = APOS - A Piece Of S***
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Senator Orrin Hatch was the author of the original COICA (Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act). He now thinks the Government should start blowing up computers without due process.
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scottdrummer2 1 week ago
@TheViolander so you promote destorying the many for the actions of the few? (i read your other comments too)
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Task1001 2 weeks ago
FUCK SOPA.
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Man I haven't heard that phrase in FOREVER! Makes me feel old...
Nice job by the way Total, always love your videos whether it's a game review or something like this, it's always done neat and tidy!
Akantorz 4 weeks ago
thepiratebay is down in The Nederlands
Atanas1998 4 weeks ago
FUCK-SO-PA
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If the entertainment industry wants to go hardcore after pirates they need to play by the rules. They don't get to overturn due process and equal protection because they feel like it. They don't get to say "Well, we should be allowed to just ACCUSE someone and have them punished without actually having to PROVE anything."
Nuh-uh, sorry, it doesn't work that way.
sharprifleman 1 month ago
This is one epic comments page... too bad i dont wanna read it..
BossWolfen 1 month ago
I am gonna keep this short and sweet, Sopa is something put in order by the government because they are greedy. Youtube has had this happen before, so far, they can't take it down.
randomaneproductions 1 month ago
Guys, we have o stop ACTA! That's way more dangerous now!
NLFonsseals 1 month ago in playlist Meer video's van TotalHalibut 59
@NLFonsseals I just came here to say the same thing, Thumbs up!
Epsio0 1 month ago
@NLFonsseals @Epsio0 Better get busy then folks. Obama in his SOTU pushed for a Trade Enforcement Unit.
The President said, "There will be more inspections to prevent counterfeit or unsafe goods from crossing our borders."
It's on the horizon guys.
genericusername5370 1 month ago
@NLFonsseals it already passed bro, it passed in October, and nothing changed.
dlj3cs2 3 weeks ago
@NLFonsseals Too late!
infringementMAN 1 week ago
@NLFonsseals Aw crap. Did SOPA just divert us from ACTA?
BaxterXenon 1 week ago
@TotalHalibut Greetings from the North Uk. I have some questions for you that i hope you wont mind answering on public record. Do you TotalHalibut accept that MikeMozart provided credible evidence of the companies complaining about piracy and trying to push this act are guilty of allowing piracy themselves? Do you also accept that all over the net people are opposing this bill? Thankyou for your time
Boomerhand 1 month ago
I disagree with this vid. You say none of this is new, but that the companies were *actively promoting* piracy was news to me. I consider the video valuable (though I'll concede it might not be the /first/ one to point someone to who hasn't heard of SOPA before), and it certainly raises a challenge to the notion that "everyone agrees piracy is a problem, but..." arguments I've been hearing. No, hypocrite companies pushing for bullshit legislation is the problem, not piracy.
IntarwebUser 1 month ago
@desertasophy Michelle would have to disable comments on just about everyone of her videos then. Just randomly clicking on one of her videos and scrolling the comments, there's always someone who is more than happy to bring up animal testing, Lancôme, and her involvement with the company.
Seperate but related, her Lady Gaga and Disney makeup tutorials might come into question under SOPA.
genericusername5370 1 month ago
@desertasophy CWA's support likely has to do with the pharmaceutical protections in SOPA. They've spoken out about the morning after pill and stem cell research.
Not sure why the ATR was involved. Only that Grover Norquist once strongly supported SOPA and Lamar Smith boasted about it. Norquist has since backpedaled.
I come up with nothing about L'oreál. Their involvement could put Michelle Phan in kind of a bind. Both L'oreál and Lancôme are named as supporters.
genericusername5370 1 month ago
It's like SOPA induces everyone to say "I don't want to live on this planet anymore'
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ThaDude675 1 month ago
I take my hat off to you sir
Sheepo25 1 month ago
It truly is a sad day when the majority of the world is just literally sitting back thinking this isn't such a big deal, choosing to treat this like some silly internet argument..
You have the power of your freedom as individuals. Through one united voice we can all solidify our freedom. Sadly a lot of ignorant people would only be clued in once the reality of SOPA+PIPA was made legal.. by then it's going to be too late for simple words.
TheSteelStallion 1 month ago
who the fuck in the congress approve that act sopa stop online piracy ill go for vendeta for that
melvaMylove 1 month ago
now we have to stop the bill that allows them to take our logged info.. a years worth of logged info, without a court order...
bogeboy10 1 month ago
Anyone who disliked this supports SOPA, therefore, they support internet censorship and the removal of sites such as Youtube, Wiki, etc. So any dislikers should just get the fuck off the internet.
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Urgoth40 1 month ago
Dear Congress,
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roflcopterdustin 1 month ago
we should be boycotting the products of those who support SOPA.
royal1000 1 month ago
damn congress they make us thing were free we can do what we want this is violating the constitution
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MrKobraful 1 month ago
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When this law is passed these things will happen.
1. Every one who is involved in piracy will be arrested.
2. Every website will be taken off making every on pissed off!
3.For the companies that want this, so that we will buy their stuff. Every one will boycott it or all the people that were arrested won't be able to buy, making the bill useless
4.We are in a crisis and they try to come up with solutions and we get THIS!?
5. Many people will lose jobs = suffering
6. Revolution (anyway possible)
blackhole73 1 month ago
Obama denied sopa, so whoever gets elected SOPA has been denied!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
dominiquembeasom 1 month ago
In my opinion the secret weapon will be the money that the facebook , google , pay pal that makes it makes the economy better and it gives the government taxes or money . But the entertainment companies give so much smaller amount of help in the economy! so we should use that on the debate.
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UchihaFan4Life 1 month ago
I think SOPA should pass - sure it has some negative effect on the freedom of speech and what not - but the core idea is to stop piracy...
Problem is there is no other way to do it - people keep saying sopa is wrong, but have you come up with a good way to stop what is basically the biggest thieving opportunity in the world? If SOPA is the way to do it - go along with it
TheViolander 1 month ago
@TheViolander I disagree. I'd rather let pirates raid the internets rather than having SOPA.
Cactupia 1 month ago
@TheViolander YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT SOPA WILL ACTUALLY DO!!!!!!!!!!!
It will delete the very existance of internet interaction alltogether, NO TALKING, NO NOTHING!!!! EVERYTHING WILL CEASE TO EXIST!!!!!!!!!!!
darkmankill1 1 month ago
@TheViolander Fuck you. Your the reason we can't have nice things in life. SOPA is definatly not the way to do it. It basicly will delete the internet and turn all life on earth into sheeps for the slaughter. They are hypocrites, the people supporting this bill are the original people who created piracy. They proffited off of piracy, and now they want even more money by sueing the people who learned how to pirate after they taught them too.
darkmankill1 1 month ago
@darkmankill1 No need to be unpleasant. I am simply saying that piracy will sooner or later destroy or at least severely harm the industry of game and movies - it's a big part of the reason most games don't come out on PCs and do on consoles.
TheViolander 1 month ago
@TheViolander they are maybe gonna delete youtube u MOTHERF*****
lunelune2413 1 month ago
@TheViolander - you're lost, brainwashed, cya
amaaidomi 1 month ago
@TheViolander are you fucking serious?? sopa will fucking destroy everything we knew about internet and plz dont tell you have never downloaded music,movies or a game because we all have! dickhead
alexfreestyleboy 1 month ago
@alexfreestyleboy yes Sopa is structured in a wrong way and needs quite some adjustment so it cannot be used by big corporations to profit and etc. - but at the same time as i stated SOMETHING needs to be done about piracy and unless you have a good solution, you shouldn't scream 'this is bullshit!' - first come up with something valid
TheViolander 1 month ago
@TheViolander how about leave everything like it is? piracy will exist no matter what usa does... they will only take a shit on 25 years of progress... if they dont like piracy then make cheaper games or music and films.. ffs we pay 10 euro for a single movie at the cinema...
alexfreestyleboy 1 month ago
@alexfreestyleboy Okay, so your solution to the problem is ignore the problem... great mindset...
TheViolander 1 month ago
@TheViolander You are brave to voice such an unpopular opinion. I may not agree with you but I can see you're concern about piracy. I believe there is always more than one way to anything and I hope that we might be able to come up with something less drastic.
charmeleon16 1 month ago
@charmeleon16 Thanks, the first person to not swear before posting )
I agree there is a BETTER way and perhaps it should be found, but what my point is - we shouldn't say "stop SOPA" - before we have a good alternative to the problem.
Law works in a way where some of our rights are constricted by it (to go to the extreme - it's like saying I cannot kill a person - where is my freedom!)
TheViolander 1 month ago
@TheViolander your point is use a less than adequate solution because we haven't got an alternative? That's really short sighted. Besides when freedoms are removed through laws, rarely are they reversed. I don't see the patriot act being recalled any time soon, piracy will be around for a long time, so will SOPA, eventually it will be exploited, it may not be this government, or the next, but it will happen.
predwarlord 1 month ago
@predwarlord My point is that we need a solution very soon and unless YOU (by you I meant people that are against sopa) have that great solution that doesnt impede any rights - by all means suggest it, otherwise the government should do anything they can to immediately counter one of the biggest channels for thievery.
Ultimately every law restricts your freedom in a way, why should this one be so different.
TheViolander 1 month ago
@predwarlord It must be made to be unexploitable - true, but maybe instead of trying to stop the law, the main point of which is to stop thievery, people should focus on influencing this forthcoming law to be fair.
TheViolander 1 month ago
@TheViolander I'm sorry that your brainwashed but your life should be taken away and given to a dying person in need.
Wifierz 1 month ago
@TheViolander You do realize that an accusation alone is enough to take down a website, right? Proof isn't needed, just an accusation.
So a website could be taken down just because a company doesn't like a certain opinion or because the website has ads of a competitor and so on.
Also, why should the actions of an individual have an effect on the entire website? One person does something wrong and there goes the site. (1/2)
Black8035 1 month ago
@TheViolander Furthermore, why should the honest customer always be the one who gets more hassle than pirates? Look at download platform Steam from Valve, they provide PC Gamers with better service than any pirate with a torrent.
Once purchased, games can be downloaded as many times and on as many PC's as you want, game downloads are fast & patches are downloaded automatically, great sales, chatting while gaming and sometimes also Steam Cloud (back-up save files on the web).
Black8035 1 month ago 11
@Black8035 The drawbacks your described are a necessary evil. Right now piracy is a norm for most of us (hell one guy a comment below just said we should ignore it and that it will always be, which proves this point). That should not be the case, that should simply be battled. In a war (in this case on piracy) to make something right people suffer, sometimes innocent, it's often the result that matters, is it not?
TheViolander 1 month ago
@TheViolander What I wanted to say with my second comment was that the only fair way to combat piracy is to provide customers with a better service than some pirate could ever do. Even then you will still have some piracy, because if you have honest customers, you will also have people who will pirate. They're two opposite sides of the same coin, they cannot exist without each other. It's the same with war and peace etc.
However, you can always try to minimize something.
Black8035 1 month ago
@Black8035 Unfortunately honest customers are rare. People are greedy bastards and will often choose to take something free rather than pay for it.
If giving a good service somehow battled piracy we would have seen significant result by now, but piracy has been increasing at a huge rate for the past 5 years.
Also just because two sides of the coin exist - it does not mean we should not do our best to eradicate the worse one, and in a way, a flawed one it may be - sopa is that way.
TheViolander 1 month ago
@TheViolander sopo is not the way to fight piracy. also it's the corparations that are being greedy by stoping anything copyrighted and can in fact claim that things that arnt copyrited ARE on youtube and remove them which they have done. as a republican like to do my research on bills like this that form a major impact and i can say that this is just a sstrangle hold on the freedom of speech and a complete way to save the corparations an extra $10. so sopa is in no way a good bill
7777TheShade 1 month ago 4
@7777TheShade Do you know the way? I assume that you do not, so untill you do find a way to fight crime without any negative effects perhaps you can put off fighting against a solution that you do not like.
TheViolander 1 month ago
@TheViolander i know that there are to many cons and only one pro to this bill. the negetive affects outway the positive affects. That is the basic way to determen if something is bad. Also this bill is just useing the piracy thing to convence people this is good but really it's about elemenating compotion. usually I like to defend corporations but this bill is crossing the line. And it would be better if we had a bill that didnt give absolute power to people over the internet to corperations
7777TheShade 1 month ago
@TheViolander *continuing* and didnt allow people to just take down a website. now if a website uses a logo or claims a song is theres when it isnt they should get a notice to remove that content 7 days in advance and if it isnt then the website should be taken down but a company should also proove that it is theres so they dont take down videos that arnt like the mega upload video. Oh so i do know tha solution. So I win you don't I'm a republican so I know waht I'm talking about.
7777TheShade 1 month ago
@7777TheShade you know solution to only one of the many problems that piracy and internet brings to copyright material. In your little so called solution you had no mention of torrents, which already operate under the radar (also the system in place NOW, is almost exactly like the one you described and it hasn't been working for a while.
So bottom line you came up with a half assed solution to a big ass problem.
TheViolander 1 month ago
@7777TheShade *continuing* And just cause the number of cons are higher it does NOT mean the bad outweigh the good. In fact the good here is potentially destroying or at least fatally harming piracy, as opposed to a little harm on the freedom of speech which as I have stated before - every law somehow restricts your freedom (eg there is a law in place that you cannot publish anything that seeks support or encourages racist movement - some might argue that attacks freedom of speech.
TheViolander 1 month ago
@TheViolander actully (and i'm sure most people agree with me on this) the cons do outway the ONLY ONE FUCKING PRO...excuse my language. Also iracy isnt really that important at the time. we should be worrying about our 14 trillion dollar debt and getting some of our jobs back from over seas. This bill also will take down google face book wiki youtube all maybe even yahoo . Thats 5 companies obliterated thanks to a bill. good job. really your an ideot if you think this bill will help anything.
7777TheShade 1 month ago
@TheViolander *continuing* it's just the music buisness and artest complaining that they half to wate a month to buy there private island. Also this bill could potentally cause companies to loose more money than they do from piracy beacouse of how much the intenet advertises and people doing reviews or let's plays. sopa does so much harm and soooooooo very very little good that in the end will cause a problem worse than they had and loose more money than they are now.
7777TheShade 1 month ago
@7777TheShade Your main argument is that not so many individuals benefit from a potential eradication of piracy - with that I agree. But this is a policy that CAN and most likely WILL harm piracy in a major way, and no this is not done for YOUR benefit (nor mine) but that is how laws work, they seldom work to improve one individual's life - rather they improve society as a whole.
and that is a big enough tick in the pros column to balance our some cons IN my opinion.
TheViolander 1 month ago
@7777TheShade Also do not confuse politic and economic turmoil policies with criminal ones, they are made by different people and no time is 'lost', and here also forgive me for my rudeness but most things are Americans fault, your government as we all know goes where it is not wanted so now it is ffed with huge military bills of over a few billions and overall enormous debt. Regardless I am not discussing the countries here, I am discussing a potential law and its upside.
TheViolander 1 month ago
@TheViolander how are most thing americans fault. you mean iraq ? you do know that they attacked rwo allied nations and there leader was killing his own people with gasses. we helped the people by killing a dictator who didnt give two shits about his people. and this bill WILL effect the market and really it's the companies fault for provideing a poor service. the solution to piracy is converting them to legitament buyers. and even if sopa passes they will find a way
7777TheShade 1 month ago
@7777TheShade hahaha, you actually (ACTUALLY) believe that, dont you?
and i mean the general outward people of USA of going where it is not wanted, it is a fact that American benefited billions from going into iraq (mostly from oil) and let's not forget Vietnam and more recent Afghanistan and even more recent F15 business of where america simply DOESNT mind its own business. You helped yourself..
TheViolander 1 month ago
@7777TheShade And ye this will affect the market - in that it will make it more profitable...
no matter how you look at it a harmful strike to piracy will always make markets more profitable and that is essentially what should happen. American should be more happy about that than anyone with the mass consumerism that is your major motivation.
TheViolander 1 month ago
@TheViolander NO! it will cuase harm to the market. youtube is where many people find out about games or songs. like me. i listend to weazer on youtube so i bought it on itunes, i saw jessie cox play skyrim liked it and now i have the game. i saw yogscast do minecraft SO I BOUGHT MINECRAFT! minecraft sales will go down majorly because they dont have TV commercials. also what about people who make a living makeing youtube video's. THOSE ARE JOBS BEING LOST and really pirates will find a way.
7777TheShade 1 month ago
@TheViolander countinue* as a steriotypical republican who's good with buisness i can say this bill will cost companies money, customers and kill some major companies! do you want that just to stop a handful of people who pirate a couple songs. REALLY!?! and this will cost companies more money than whats being taken currently. and all you do is say you:IT'LL STOP PIRACY IT'LL STOP PIRACY! BUY TAKING AWAY A MAJOR SORCE OF FREE ADVERTISMENT COMPANIES MAKE MORE! IGNOR FACTS! DERP DERP..,
7777TheShade 1 month ago
@7777TheShade a handful of people who pirate a couple songs? are you goddamn serious? there are million of piracy related acitivities involving songs and game. MOST games right now are made on consoles only because the companies realise what loss they are making by putting it on the PC and exposing it to the huge thievery channel that is piracy. Piracy is already fatally harming the industry.
TheViolander 1 month ago
@7777TheShade *continued* And as a republican you should know that no company WILL purposefully hurt a good advertisement opportunity, company A is not going to be stupid enough as to report a channel that shows good play of their game and therefore is a source of advertisement.
SOPA is not going to be a strict regime (NOT ANYMORE, it has already been hugely tuned down, if you follow the news) the current sopa is much better.
TheViolander 1 month ago
@TheViolander AS A REPUBLICAN! iknow when something is harful in the long run. if there is ANY copyright of anything the entire site will be taken down getting rid of everything. so if there is a song let's say New Divide by linken park in a Rift dungen video. YOUTUBE GOES bleh....what the company sees is oh this person likes my music and is useing it in a video! IM LOOSING MONEY! there. as for the new sopa i'll if it's anything like the first one...it'll be bad
7777TheShade 1 month ago
@TheViolander also SOPA IS MORE HARMFUL THAN PIRACY! god damn it man listen!
7777TheShade 1 month ago
@7777TheShade ok now you are just making stuff up... As I said before a company has to take down the video, it wont be automatic, and a company is NOT stupid enough to take down free advertisement, IT IS NOT!
And no SOPA is not more harmful, at least not in the way it matters. Loss of some freedom is the cost of law and order and good society.
TheViolander 1 month ago
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If the entertainment industry wants to go hardcore after pirates they need to play by the rules. They don't get to overturn due process and equal protection because they feel like it. They don't get to say "Well, we should be allowed to just ACCUSE someone and have them punished without actually having to PROVE anything."
Nuh-uh, sorry, it doesn't work that way.
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@TheViolander So where would you draw the line? How many and which freedoms do you think should be removed from society?
sharprifleman 1 month ago
@sharprifleman that's a good question, but I don't think there is a clear line.
ultimately when you elect a government you should leave it up to them to weigh the pros and cons of such dilemmas.
I am merely giving my opinion on that SOPA is not as bad or wrong as people make it out to be. (and most, not all, but most people are doing it because they fear they might not be able to download a free movie anymore)
TheViolander 1 month ago
@TheViolander Where did you get the impression that most of us are concerned about free movies?
sharprifleman 1 month ago in playlist More videos from TotalHalibut
@sharprifleman because people in general are greedy fucks, that's a fact - and I can bet money that majority of people simply realise that with sopa it's pretty much an axe to any torrent related activities or free streaming.
TheViolander 1 month ago
@TheViolander That looks to me like an assumption, not a fact.
sharprifleman 1 month ago
@sharprifleman No, that's a fact proven by the few thousand years of humanity. And since that's come up - do you disagree?
TheViolander 1 month ago
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sharprifleman 1 month ago
@TheViolander what if another company sees someone talking good about another company and bad about them. they would take it down and no im not makeing stuff up i know what im talking about unlike you and yes companies think that they are going to make more moeny by getting rid of piracy at the cost of advertiseing and if there is ANY copywritted material lets say a song the whole site gos down destroying othercompanies free advertisement. god LISTEN TO THE FACTS!!!!!
7777TheShade 1 month ago
@7777TheShade that's what should happen, if someone is using a copyrighted song the site SHOULD get taken down, after all the administrator should either be responsible for thsoe who post on his/her site or simply not allow it. As for talking 'bad' about a company - you are making that shit up :) if i were to simply mention a firm, I am not breaking any copyright infringement law, nor would I be under SOPA, seriously dude stop making shit up to support your facts :)
TheViolander 1 month ago
@TheViolander what about the stated mega upload video :) talking bad about them claimed copyright and took it down. im not makeing crap up. also its the persons fault for uploading that not the administrator. why should the entire site and users be punished for one person so a company could takedown whatever. your seriously stupid by saying im makeing crap up simply to avoid the facts
7777TheShade 1 month ago
@7777TheShade if you run a big shopping centre and somebody comes in and starts selling crack - you will be criminally charged, it's the same story with the website, you are an administrator - you are responsible for what's happening in your domain.
TheViolander 1 month ago
@TheViolander yes but a mall yould kick that person out as youtube would takedown that video
7777TheShade 3 weeks ago
@7777TheShade yes the person will get kicked out arrested but the owned of the mall will also be criminally charged, because it is HIS responsibility to oversee what goes on in his place of business, it is the same with websites if someone is doing illegal shit on your website - your fault as well you should get fined or have website taken down.
TheViolander 3 weeks ago
@TheViolander WOW MAN. WOW...SERIOUSLY? Yes, the Mall has SOME responsibility over what happens around. They need security guards, but REALLY. Just because some jerk decides to rob something or murder someone there isn't the MALL's fault. You think they can jolt there at light speed? That means malls across the world can be shut down because someone stole a dollar-worth rubber ball or some crap like that.
BaxterXenon 1 week ago
@BaxterXenon you have completely changed the scenario that I have described.... read before you say something stupid.
I was comparing this to the situation where one of the mall's stores is used to sell drugs - therefore the mall owners should be responsible and prosecuted. What you described is a crime happening within a certain space....
Having said that yes I think websites should be shut down if they fail to filter piracy material
TheViolander 1 week ago
@TheViolander Okay fine. I read it wrong, but think about it. I think about a thousand videos stream into YouTube daily. You REALLY think the YouTube guys will spend all of their time trying to watch over a million possibly a BILLION videos trying to see if there's piracy? I can understand if some pirate website steals a game recently released, I can understand if YouTube just let a guy make money off of his stolen video. But really, SOPA and ACTA are going too far with their act.
BaxterXenon 1 week ago
@BaxterXenon heh here is another matter though. No I do not think they will spend all of their time doing that, but I do (and i say this honestly) think they should, people running the website should be responsible for what they allow to run on their website, I made the comparison to the mall for a valid reason, I was comparing how it is in the real world and how it should be in the electronic one. The thefts or crimes in both are very much identical, why should the laws not be?
TheViolander 1 week ago
@TheViolander The scenarios are actually VERY different. Opening a store in a mall is presumably a (relatively) large financial investment, and will in most cases involves lots of legal agreements. Opening an account and uploading something to e.g. Youtube is done in a few clicks, totally free and with no monetary investment.
On a side note digital crime is not like real-world crime, since the actual copy that is stolen didn't cost anything to produce.
TheRealDezuman 5 days ago
@TheRealDezuman to your first post I say this - you are saying how things are and because of that they cases are different, that is silly since just because atm it is EASIER to commit alleged crime - does not mean the laws shouldnt prosecute them or make it more difficult.
And digital crime is a lot similar to real-world (the cost argument is invalid because even though there is no marginal cost to producing a digital version - there is still the overall cost of that project)
TheViolander 4 days ago
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Think of these scenario:
Do you think a mall chain would fund the opening of stores in rivaling malls to discredit them, with the risk of it being traced to them because of the money and legalities involved? I don't think so.
Do you think an influential corporation would with minimal investment and total anonymity get even the smallest competitor shut down, no strings attached? Of course they would!
TheRealDezuman 5 days ago
@TheRealDezuman 2nd post: I think anything is capable of anything it is really up to the personal preference of any organization of how much crime to commit for the search of profit.
And as answer to your 2nd question - an influential corporation has no incentive to spend any amount of money to shut down a minor competitor. (such projects have negative Net present value)
TheViolander 4 days ago
@TheViolander
In the end the problem is that the internet and digital media in general is so vastly different from anything ever before, and has only really exploded during the last ten years or something. As it usually is with new stuff, it spawns new actors and encourages innovation. However the Old Brontosaurus Corporations, in the purest old-European colonial spirit, ventures to stake out their claims with the catchphrase: "We pay the politicians donuts, die SUCKERS!"
TheRealDezuman 5 days ago
@TheRealDezuman They are different in many aspects, but ultimately it comes down to copyright infringement and the potential of these acts to stop this crime.
Digital and real-worlds copies are just different ways to carry out this particular crime.
And to compare how they are fundamentally different is taking this argument completely off tracks and does not relate to my initial point at all.
TheViolander 4 days ago
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sharprifleman 1 month ago
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@TheViolander The problem is if you even link to copyrighted material the site will be shut down. That may be too extreme. Also sometimes it is too difficult to prevent copyrighted material from being posted on websites due to the amount of material you would have to search through.
sharprifleman 1 month ago
@TheViolander I think he is actually talking about whistle-blowing. Companies probably don't want you to spread information about their alleged dishonest or illegal activities.
sharprifleman 1 month ago
@sharprifleman in that case he is wrong. under current sopa talking and reporting on a company's state will in no way put you under prosecution.
TheViolander 4 weeks ago
@Black8035 Minus the DRM on Ubisoft games.
Patrick128000 1 month ago in playlist Uploaded videos
@Patrick128000 Well Assassin's Creed Brotherhood and Revelations only had a one time activation. I have ACR on PC and it went fine.
Anno 2070 had DRM that limited the number of times you could activate your copy (whenever you would switch your gpu - max of 3x), now they've removed it, although the restriction of motherboard changes are still there (max of 3x).
For future games, I'd recommend to keep an eye on the DRM that's being used.
Black8035 1 month ago
@TheViolander
Well, I don't know for you, but people losing their jobs (I know a lot of people that do Let's Plays and youtube pays them) could lose their jobs, and even face prison for posting videos about games. And Wikipedia would be shut down.
You sound more like a greedy fuckhead. Big companies are already making a lot of money, hell, South Park is one of the most downloaded series, and their Creators said that they're still making a lot of money and it doesn't bother them.
OniGlalie 1 month ago
@TheViolander
So basically you're saying: fuck freedom, we need more money. And if SOPA pass, that will do more damage than good, in fact, there is no good in SOPA.
OniGlalie 1 month ago
@OniGlalie There is no need to be unpleasant or to twist my words. I am saying sometimes it is necessary to sacrifice freedom for order and law (which is what law is essentially about).
and the upside of SOPA is a potential strike on piracy, you should know that.
Also as i have stated many times SOPA is flawed, and needs to be addressed so that it cannot be exploited, but at this moment in time it is the closest we have come to potentially close down Internet piracy
TheViolander 1 month ago
109.236.83.66 Whaddup a mega upload
S0LID0PERAT0R 1 month ago
Lots of people say your part of this horrible shit
Dragonslashshark 1 month ago
I will...take a shotgun.
Pung900 1 month ago in playlist More videos from TotalHalibut
Guys, DCMA wasn't "Trolling", he was being SARCASTIC.
TweeTimesThree 1 month ago
Mike Mozart probably isn't the best, he is actually a toy reviewer, and I from my understanding isn't all there sometimes :s
darklordsmasher 1 month ago
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I ̶h̶a̶t̶e̶ love SOPA. (This comment was edited by the U.S. Government.)
bluebuddy579 1 month ago
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We should all take this seriously. Like videos that are going against SOPA. We need to raise awareness of stopping SOPA. If we don't, the internet will be messed up. Youtube, Google, etc... WILL BE AFFECTED GREATLY! We need to protest against SOPA! Like this and tel your friends and copy and paste this. Please, help us and STOP SOPA!
cungten 1 month ago
WE SUPPORT OBAMA'S SWEEPING NDAA/SOPA LEGISLATION.
STRENGTHENING NATIONAL SECURITY AGAINST PATRIOTIC HOMEGROWN TERRORISTS AND THWARTING PIRACY IS A GROWING PROBLEM OUR DEMOCRACY MUST FACE HEAD-ON.
OBAMA'S PASSAGE OF NDAA AND PENDING SOPA ARE STEPS IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION, BUT ELIMINATING PIRACY AND CENSORING STATESIDE TERRORISTS MUST REMAIN THE PRIMARY FOCUS OF FEDERAL GOVT.
WE SALUTE PRESIDENT OBAMA, WHOSE OATH TO MEET THE SAFETY, PROSPERITY AND LONG TERM NEEDS OF EVERY CITIZEN HAS NOW BEEN MET.
DMCAServicesBureau 1 month ago
@DMCAServicesBureau 1/10 bro. Troll harder.
fafdsfr 1 month ago in playlist Uploaded videos
@DMCAServicesBureau truly. that was a horrible attempt at a troll. -10/10 for score..
imCharl3s 1 month ago
you know what that's not the point he was trying to get across, stop over anylizing and look at the bills at what they are, a Nazi takeover of our country, our country has been slowly been descending into a dictatorship, and since obama took over the country we have started to move about 100 X faster into a dictatorship, this will take over control the internet and SAY what Can or CAN NOT go on, you think this is good, your youtube videos will no longer exist my friend, no matter what you say
BAGOMS 1 month ago in playlist Favorite videos
TotalBiscuit, no offence, I think you're a great guy, but I think your SOPA video was just as biased as his. You kept saying why it was bad, and didn't provide any point for the other side.
The lobbyists will only see themselves as trying to protect companies from piracy- I highly doubt they want to purposefully kill off the Internet.
I personally don't support SOPA and PIPA, however, I think it is in the interests of fairness, balance, and good argumental technique to see both sides .
ChromaAurora 1 month ago
All boils down to corporate greed and control. Killing freedom of expression on the internet would for many people put them out of work. New artists would not get seen or heard.
dannybailey666 1 month ago
Hypocritical? Wow as soon as you said that I stopped your video. Your an idiot, and this video shows your lack of intelligence. He has way more evidence than you do, you don't even have an argument here. Your not telling us anything other than the general public should know more about SOPA. Keep posting Video game videos, your probably a lot better at that..
pope000 1 month ago
@pope000 did you watch his previous video?
YegiShmeg 1 month ago
@pope000 Just STFU
connabifta 1 month ago
@pope000 his evidence does require brains to get it, he makes a very valid point.
glant5876 1 month ago
@pope000 STFU this is serious you faggot
cungten 1 month ago
@pope000 troll
MissJuicyCathy 1 month ago
@pope000 If you stopped the video, haven't bothered listening to the rest of it and haven't watched his other video.. you're clearly the one who is an idiot.
Seriously, brighten up and use your brain. This a means to piss you off, more of a means to convince you to think. Watch his videos which have been created with an intelligent view, not a toy reviewer who uses scare tactics as a means to get his own warped point of view across which is based on things everybody already knows.
TheSteelStallion 1 month ago
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SOPA was proposed by the US representative Lamar Smith ... a 64 year old talking corpse that has obviously never used the internet in order to see the benefits of free knowledge and information ... someone assassinate that fucker ... it's the same if someone that can't drive proposed a ban on cars ...
BulgarianShadow 1 month ago
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Hey Google "Wikipedia SOPA blackout seems to get results in senate" and choose 'suntimes.com' <<<<< and Read The Article. The senate abandoned SOPA (at least for now). But PIPA (PROTECT IP act) is still going on!!!!
DrBiggiePacNHarmony 1 month ago
"I support sopa and enjoy criticizing opposers of this act!" -TotalBiscuit
IBeJacob 1 month ago
@IBeJacob watch his other video, posted slightly earlier than this one about why he thinks SOPA and PIPA are incredibly dangerous and have to be stopped...it's probably in the related videos section and it has more than 2 million views
IAmebAdger 1 month ago
@IBeJacob
Dumbass, you should listen better next time.
OniGlalie 1 month ago
didn't the government already do something like this?
ZedSurvivor1 1 month ago
If YouTube dies then I too must die. 0n0
HelloHiGoodday 1 month ago
I want you to get mad! I don't want you to protest, I don't want you to riot, I don't want you to write to your congressman (actually do write to your congressman) cause I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about SOPA or PIPA. All I know is that first, you've got to get mad! So I want you to get up right now, go to the window, open it, stick your head out and yell: I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GONNA TAKE THIS ANYMORE!!!
KaTzaNdSTuFf 1 month ago
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Copy and paste and publishes. go and thumbs down the guy block internet
/user/TexansforLamarSmith
JoaoPedroPF18 1 month ago
who was the stupid moran who had this idea
rgryan1000 1 month ago
@rgryan1000 lamar smith, wont be surprised if hes found dead if sopa gets passed -_-. hopefully anon will intervene. I never liked what they did but if it comes that they have to step in for the people, ill just be here cheering them on for helping the world
Voldermort365 1 month ago
@rgryan1000 a congressmen that has been paid off by Hollywood and music company's
1reagan123 1 month ago
I use to watch videos on youtube, then i took u.s. corporations balls to my face.....
FilthyMedia 1 month ago
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@Heyimalobsterr
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ChameleonGrip 1 month ago