CoasterCrazy Shutdown - Jan. 18th 2012

[Mikey]

Hello All,

In line with other major websites on the internet, on January 18th 2012 Coaster Crazy will shutdown it's website for 12 hours in protest of proposed legislation called the "Stop Online Piracy Act".

This act, if passed, would largely disrupt the internet as we know it. It would place unnecessary burdens and technical complexity on website site operators such as Oscar and I, impose unreasonable sharing restrictions on websites such as this one, and disrupt the innovation and progression of open source software. Most importantly however it would enable large corporations to "disable" free speech when ever it was convenient for them, as well as permit these organizations to intercept traffic and alter the flow of the internet on the basis of protecting their intellectual property.

It is my personal opinion that the burden of protecting intellectual property is the responsibility of the right holders to enforce in a court of law. A burden and responsibility that falls on the right holders and the right holders alone, not one that should be bared by the providers and users of the internet.

[Coasterkidmwm]

I support this move.

Hopefully the result of a bunch of fat white old people that don't know the difference between an IP address and an email address will be in your favor.

Brilliant plan...let's do it.

[SauronHimself]

This guy blew the lid on SOPA and explained the sinister origins of it.

Good to hear about these protests.

It's funny how day-by-day, more and more supporters of SOPA are denouncing support for it.

Don't really care much for the video, but look at the first comment... "The internet is blocked in China and north Korea, just so you know where we are headed."

[gouldy]

The land of the "Free"?

It's a joke that something like this was ever even suggested.


Those of you with Android phone may already know about this, but it would a good app to get, if you haven't already;

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/11 ... oliticians


How does your government even plan to keep control over this properly? I realise that a lot of Americans would be affected, but those who know how the internet works would surely be able to get past this quite easily, unless all ties with other countries were just completely and entirely cut

I like how SOPA is losing supporters, and more people are going Anonymous.

I am for this shutdown 100%. Fight the power!

Wouldn't they rather devote their energy to stopping the wind?

[Coasterkidmwm]

Originally posted by gouldy

The land of the "Free"?

Land of the upper management fat white christian.

I'm really starting to believe that our modern government can't produce any sensible legislation or programs.

I already beleived that,

Originally posted by A.S.C.

I already beleived that,

[worship]

Originally posted by disaster249

I'm really starting to believe that our modern government can't produce any sensible legislation or programs.

What do you mean starting? Congress had a 9% approval rating at the end of last year. Nine percent. Polygamy, communism, and the BP oil spill have higher approval ratings than that.

I'll let Jon Stewart summarize my thoughts on the current congress:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-august-4-2010/i-give-up---9-11-responders-bill?xrs=share_copy

I cannot say how much I agree with this shut down. If this law is really passed, internet will nog be free ever again.

Then again, the usa government is all about big companys. God help the slaves which live under it

if this passes then life will suck without coastercrazy and youtube, why are these bastards focusing on this they could be foccusing on other WAY more important issues.


the whole mother love bill is listehttp://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/quer ... H.R.3261:d here(sorry for my language)

I'd like to know how these fat white idiots are going to censor the internet. I doubt many people in the know are very willing to help with this bullshit. Anyone with a brain can see that this is only going to hurt the corporations that it claims to protect. Ought to be interesting to see their justifications when they don't know the first thing about computer networks, the internet, or the outside world, for that matter.

Cool stuff.

Originally posted by Topthrill123

if this passes then life will suck without coastercrazy and youtube, why are these bastards focusing on this they could be foccusing on other WAY more important issues.


the whole mother love bill is listehttp://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/quer ... H.R.3261:d here(sorry for my language)

Don't worry mate, CoasterCrazy isn't going to be affected by this...

^ Yes. Yes it will be. If this bill passes, CoasterCrazy.com might be shut down.

Originally posted by disaster249

Originally posted by Topthrill123

if this passes then life will suck without coastercrazy and youtube, why are these bastards focusing on this they could be foccusing on other WAY more important issues.


the whole mother love bill is listehttp://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/quer ... H.R.3261:d here(sorry for my language)

Don't worry mate, CoasterCrazy isn't going to be affected by this...

yes but youtube would and that will suck, but this bill is losing supporters so it might not pass i really hope not. they should be focusing on our sucky economy not this. read this it should bring some hopes up http://digitaljournal.com/article/316812

so essentially, the whole point of SOPA was this.
-create content that people will buy
-make content fairly expensive.
-exclusively host software for downloading illegal copyrighted files
-maybe even host those files, and provide a search to find embedded files for download, through the client.
-profit for a while from downloads of the copyrighted music illegally by using the statistics gained to promote the music.
-lay low, let the piracy grow. (yo ho ho)
-point out what has been happening, claim that they are the victims of the debacle
-Back the SOPA bill, allowing them to sue anyone they find AROUND THE WORLD to have committed any kind of "piracy" or distribution of music without full, documented permission.
-profit. love loads of dirty, unjust profit.

Originally posted by Tetsu

^ Yes. Yes it will be. If this bill passes, CoasterCrazy.com might be shut down.

either that or have the exchange and premium memberships shut off leaving the site useless and not fun at all(thats just my prediction if the bill passes)

^The bill targets infringing links and such too. Links to YouTube videos would be considered "piracy", as would embedded images, and more. Basically, if this bill passes, it's pretty safe to say that almost every forum on the Internet will be taken down because they are illegal.