I frequent that site almost as much as CF... I love reading up on basketball players' bios; it influences my game and motivates me a lot knowing that they trained in the streets as I did, fought the negativity prevalent on the streets as I did. http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/English_Wikipedia_anti-SOPA_blackout
Someone who knows care to explain what this SOPA actually says ? Here it is but rather wordy and lots of legalese: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:h.r.3261: ADD version anyone? I hear lots of information from those against it and just trying to understand. Seems like some say it applies to only foreign websites infringing on US copyright, but then others say that it is the end of the world as we know it. If I post a link to a site on here is that copyright infringement and shut down clutchfans? where is the line drawn? Seems like the folks against it are painting a doom gloom scenario and just trying to understand fact vs. fiction. and dont flame me for not reading the SOPA yet but I thought perhaps since we have such a collection of 'experts' here someone might be able to shed light from a legal standpoint. when you beat on someone do you feel generally like a god? first thing I thought of when you said you trained on the streets first thing I thought of when you said you fought .. on the streets man OP you are HARD homie... I wouldn't want to dare walk across your turf and get 'dealt with' by a tough guy like you
Other threads with lots of info here and here. It's the DMCA on steroids, with the onus now on the hosters, instead of the content owners. Even more scary, it mandates blocking via DNS, which will massively **** up the internet.
Yea, I think he is. That is the reason they are shutting the site down. It was done to save some money (i.e bandwith costs, programmer salary etc..) cause no one donated anything. Hopefully the site will be back up one day when enough people donate. I will start with 5 USD.
I see. That is very interesting that they are expecting a mass flood of donations in that 24 hour period. I guess similar to those Ron Paul money bombs.
Google's getting in on it, too. It's not a blackout like Wikipedia (which isn't feasible for a site like Google, really), but they'll be using their homepage to raise awareness. Pretty cool.
There's still PIPA which is almost as bad; it's scheduled to go to vote Jan. 24. It's like they give you the bats**t insane version (SOPA), then follow it up with a pretty insane version (PIPA) and hope it'll look less insane when contrasted with the other one.
It's not a real blackout. You can still read the page if you stop/escape before the page loads the overlay. p*****s... P.S. I sent my three meaningless emails.
