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TWRoO on 18 January 2012
dark_gh0st_b0y said:
Wikipedia being against is a huge thing, now if only youtube and facebook react as well...

and the stop button does the job but is still annoying, completely stopping Wikipedia could affect many people, especially those studying : P

and if the prices of some products were more sensible, maybe that could help stop piracy, you simply can't go out and buy every single movie or series you want to see on your pc, let alone that some cannot even be found the way you want it

if SOPA keeps on, it will affect the industry in a more negetive way I believe.....

Well if it's an issue for you and you really need Wiki, just block scripts from wikimedia.org... tbh though it's only for a day, likelyhood is that ignoring this SOPA stuff I might not have visited Wikipedia today anyway, or maybe only once or twice.



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man-bear-pig on 18 January 2012

Damn! I just tried to go on wikipedia... :(

I will express my feelings using the immortal words of Counting Crows:

'Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got til its gone'



My prediction threads:

Wii U will sell under 40m units (made on 14th September 2012)

PS Vita will sell under 20m units (made on 30th September 2012)

Wii U will sell under 7m in 2013 - I was right

Halo 4 first 9 weeks sales prediction

PS4 to be down YOY in 2015

Millenium on 18 January 2012

Wankers...

Just found out because I was going to check wikipedia for something... G,damn SOPA!



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brendude13 on 18 January 2012

I still don't get it.

So basically, you can't upload copyrighted songs or movies onto a website like Youtube or send them to a friend. Hasn't the net been like this for a while? And isn't that just piracy?



crissindahouse on 18 January 2012
brendude13 said:
I still don't get it.

So basically, you can't upload copyrighted songs or movies onto a website like Youtube or send them to a friend. Hasn't the net been like this for a while? And isn't that just piracy?

i believe the problem is that a site would have to check every stuff they have on their site and this is not possible for most of them. it'S just too expensive if a site would have to check every stuff their users are posting or whatever. i'm really not into all of that, ok i started the thread haha but i just posted it because i saw it on wiki.

i believe it's like we posting tons of pics here for lets's say the new thread "guess the user picture game!" and we couldn't do it anymore because vgchartz doesn't know about all the copyrights of the posted picturers but they would have to be responsible for that.

i mean, how should vgchartz know if their is a copyright on one of the posted pics?they have to check every picture before allowing it for posting here.

if i'm talking shit then forget what i said^^



brendude13 on 18 January 2012

Ahh I see, so the main problem is that websites have to check every single bit of uploaded content to make sure it doesn't contain any copyright material? Didn't the video say that the ISP had to check that though?



crissindahouse on 18 January 2012

like i said i really have no clue haha but i mean how could they check all of that? i have no clue how this will work i think that'S the reason all the internet sites started the rage mode^^



Kasz216 on 19 January 2012

I find it funny how some people are calling it "Regular people triumphing over companies."

When in reality it was companies triumphing over other companies. Just the companies who won shared a goal with regular people.

Regular people had been fighting SOPA for months, with no real progress.