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[Trapezohedron]

They should do that, so that the government can realize that what they're trying to do is nuke a galaxy-sized archive of etcetera.

I don't mind not being able to use the net for a day.

[Nadaka]

http://torrentfreak.com/us-threatened-to-blacklist-spain-for-not-implementing-site-blocking-law-120105/

[Loud Whispers]

Well Google, Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, Amazon and other big companies rooted in the internet are going to rage quit for a day to protest. They're willing to lose BILLIONS to protect the internet. But is this going to be enough? If anything, it's probably going to turn into another way to extort money from extremely wealthy companies for the sole purpose of political gain :/

[kaijyuu]

That'll be pretty damn effective if they replace their stuff with anti-SOPA splash pages. Sure they'd piss off some idiotic customers, but less than just stopping services for a day.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Yeah, if they do the same thing that Mozilla and co. did with the WEBSITE BLOCKED messages SOPA awareness would skyrocket. The bill would have no chance of passing, and the media would have no choice but to cut their losses and try to make money off the story while SOPA dies in Congress.

[Aklyon]

But what about PIPA during all this?

[Aklyon]

Haven't seen news of anywhere else actively saying they're going for it, but Reddit is.

January 18th from 8am–8pm EST (1300–0100 UTC).

[dwarfhoplite]

USA congress by itself sets a law that justifies them global rights?

[MetalSlimeHunt]

USA congress by itself sets a law that justifies them global rights?

SOPA won't have American agents flying to Sweden to shut down the Pirate Bay servers. SOPA is designed to cut Americans off from sites that give out pirated content so that they'll have to keep buying from the entertainment media conglomerates that sponsor this bill.

[Sinned]

USA congress by itself sets a law that justifies them global rights?

SOPA won't have American agents flying to Sweden to shut down the Pirate Bay servers. SOPA is designed to cut Americans off from sites that give out pirated content so that they'll have to keep buying from the entertainment media conglomerates that sponsor this bill.

Still, there is still a reason USA is pressing on Spain to start listening ... or else...

Anywho, derailing just a tad here, but still a precedent for dutch residents. Ziggo & Xs4all (two dutch ISPs) stepped up and got smacked by BREIN (our version of MAFIAA) to block the piratebay dns and ips on their network.

The arguments given by brein (brain in dutch *barf*) that thepiratebay is used to *upload* (./golfclap) copyrighted material. (Thats not how it works).

The major thing here that makes it look as a mini-dutch-sopa act is that they have given a list of domains that should be locked, 3 ips and have the rights to *ADD* others to that list.

BREIN is known/suspect to be pretty *sketchy at best* with evidence from previous encounters.

Judges are also known for going in to "(L)User MODE" after shouting 3 or more technical terms at them within 20 seconds.

BREIN has already made it clear they will take this ruling to other ISPs.

[Nadaka]

The fuckity fuck?

US extraditing british teen for "copyright infringement" committed in england, note that he didn't even host or distribute copies of the supposed files.

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/01/13/1548214/us-government-seeks-extradition-of-uk-student-for-file-sharing

[Aklyon]

Our government is goddamn retarded about things like this because of the MPAA/RIAA being idiots with lots of lobbyists. Sorry.

[Loud Whispers]

The fuckity fuck?

US extraditing british teen for "copyright infringement" committed in england, note that he didn't even host or distribute copies of the supposed files.

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/01/13/1548214/us-government-seeks-extradition-of-uk-student-for-file-sharing

WAHT THE HELL

[palsch]

Just for the sake of the other side of the story, he did make over a hundred thousand pounds 'not hosting' copyrighted material.

Frankly, it's a very worrying test case. If it works then it has far deeper implications for the internet than SOPA.

As for the extradition angle, that's business as usual. The UK has a very generous extradition treaty with the US, where if an arrest warrant is held as legal in a US court then they may be extradited to the other party (note that UK > US or US > UK still requires the US standard; UK judges only assess the legality of the extradition request, not the case behind it). It's similar to the strength of EU arrest warrants, where any charges in one EU country are grounds for extradition from any other.

[Aklyon]

Making money off of it is a different thing entirely, I think. From the link name it just sounded like he shared some things for free and the US wanted to yell at him because of that.