The internet as you know it is imminently ending

[Mr Khan]

Hornet303 said:

Mr Khan said:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act

Read and be afraid. Be very afraid. And be afraid if you are anywhere in the world and not just in the United States, for the strict self-censorship that websites will necessarily have to enforce so that they don't lose access to the American market will impact all of us

Nice dramatic intro to your story.  You're on your way to becoming a great journalist! Haha, anyway, something needs to happen.  Whether its this, or something else in the future, there needs to be some type of regulation/accountability for your actions.  I am in support of freedom of speech and general civil liberties, but when you see groups like anyonymous and lolsec go after whoever they want, relatively unpunished, its only a matter of time until the group goes after the general public or their tools/tactics become the norm. 

Right now its big corporations that fall victim to this.  But what happens when they realize there is money to be made off of general public.  Once you become the victim and they go unpushed, you'll want some type of protection.

Consider the internet a new found country.  Now there are few rules and no real regulations.  But what happens when it sucks to go down the street?

 

The ends never justify the means. And we could debate that the ends in this case are debatable as well (companies are trying to assert far more control over their intellectual property than is morally just), but even if we were to operate under the assumption that companies deserve this level of control over their intellectual property, this is the laziest possible way to go about enforcement: simply pick a site you think is hurting you, go cry at the government, and have them block or shut down the site

This has nothing to do with hacking, which already has legal coverage