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Piracy once again fails to get in way of record box office

Kad ste već na arsteknici, nije zgoreg da pročitate i vrlo dragu priču o tome kako je australijski sud presudio da internet provajder iiNet nije bio dužan da isključuje internet svojim klijentima po nalozima koji su mu uputili iz australijske agencije za zaštitu od krađe autorskih prava. Mudovit je njihov CEO koji je prvo agenciji rekao da bi trebalo da se obrate policiji a onda na sudu objasnio:

QuoteDuring the first trial, iiNet CEO Michael Malone was asked whether iiNet had ever terminated a subscriber for repeat infringement. No, said Malone, it had not, because "no one had been found [by a judge] to infringe copyright"; all iiNet had were mere allegations of wrongdoing. The studios' lawyer then asked Malone if this was some kind of "joke" response. As the trial judge noted, "The respondent's policy was not a joke, and its conduct was entirely consistent with the policy as outlined even though it may not have been the kind of policy that the applicants anticipated."

Dobro je da neko negde ima hladnu glavu.

Nešto nevezano za pirateriju ali ipak....

Facebook will soon share users' phone numbers and addresses with 3rd parties

QuoteIt's been a while since we've had an uproar over Facebook's handling of its users personal information, so we suppose the time is ripe.

So cue the online outrage: Facebook announced today in a letter to Congress that the social-media platform is moving forward with plans to give third parties access to user information, such as phone numbers and home addresses.

In a letter to Reps. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) and Joe Barton (R-Tex.), who both expressed concerns over Facebook's plan to make such data available, company officials reiterated their now-familiar pledge to leave it up to users to decide whether they want their personal contact information to go out to app developers and outside websites. Markey has previously said that "Facebook needs to protect the personal information of its users to ensure that Facebook doesn't become Phonebook."

The company, meanwhile, sounds as though it has no plans to trim back its information-sharing ambitions.

"We have not yet decided when or in what manner we will redeploy the permission for mobile numbers and addresses," the letter states. "We are evaluating whether and how we can increase the visibility of applications' request for permission to access user contact information. We are also considering whether additional user education would be helpful."

Facebook has incited user revolts in the past by arbitrarily re-calibrating its privacy settings and then making it difficult for even the most seasoned web geeks to figure out how to reset them. And once again, anger is roiling among tech industry observers.

"Facebook is the slowly warming pot of water and we, my friends, are the frog. By the time we noticed our peeling skin, another hunk of our privacy is long gone," MSNBC tech writer Helen A.S. Popkin wrote about the latest move. "This is how Facebook rolls: Strip away a huge chunk of your privacy, cry 'Our bad!' and roll it back when users and/or privacy advocates complain. Then wait awhile, and do whatever it is Facebook planned to do anyway. Voila! Boiled frog."

Or as Facebook VP Elliot Schrage bluntly (if less colorfully) put things in the midst of a similar uproar last year: If you don't want Facebook to share your personal information, don't share your personal information with Facebook.

Piracy
John Wiley & Sons Sues BitTorrent Users
By Maryann Yin on November 2, 2011 3:23 PM

Publisher John Wiley & Sons has filed a lawsuit against 27 BitTorrent users who distributed digital copies of books from the For Dummies series without authorization. Follow this PDF link to download the suit.

According to TorrentFreak, the complaint lists charges that include copyright infringement, trademark infringement and trademark counterfeiting. They also noted that the 'BitTorrent for Dummies' book is not mentioned in the suit. Publishers Weekly reports that the publisher intends to combat piracy by "educating and stopping people from illegally copying its content."

Here's more from the complaint: "Defendants are contributing to a problem that threatens the profitability of Wiley...For example, BitTorrent users on a single site, demonoid.me, have downloaded one of the works that is the subject of this suit, Photoshop CS 5 All-In-One For Dummies, more than 74,000 times since June 6, 2010 ... The damage to Wiley includes hark to its goodwill and reputation in the marketplace for which money cannot compensate. Wiley is particularly concerned that its trademarks are used in connection with unauthorized electronic products, which could contain malicious viruses."

Demonoid je sada na crnogorskom domenu?    Ujebote, nisam se ulogovo tamo sigurno godinu dana... Verovatno i dve.

Elem, ta priča da su torenti puni virusa itd. me je uvek uveseljavala. Za sve godine svlačenja piratskog softvera nisam nikada naleteo na zaražen torent i kad se uzme u obzir da sam nebrojeno puta i pored posedovanja legitimne kopije igre instalirao pirata da bih izbegao spajver poput SecuROMa, ova ideja je još smešnija.

Arts groups tell BT to block access to The Pirate Bay

BT said there must be a court order before it can act   

UK arts lobby groups have demanded BT block access to the BitTorrent file sharing website, The Pirate Bay.

Music industry trade body, the BPI, said it would take legal action if the telecoms firm refused to co-operate. The movie industry has already forced BT to block Newzbin 2, a members-only site that aggregates illegally copied material.

BT said: "We can confirm we are now in receipt of a letter from the BPI. BT is considering its response."
The telecoms operator added that a court order would be needed before any blocking could begin.

A source told the BBC the firm was unlikely to fight a lengthy legal battle as it had in the Newzbin case.

"We would not tolerate Counterfeits 'R' Us on the High Street - if we want economic growth, we cannot accept illegal rip-off sites on the internet either," said the BPI's chief executive, Geoff Taylor.

Richard Mollet, chief executive of The Publishers Association added: "It is crucial that the creative sector keeps up the momentum of getting internet companies to do their bit in tackling illegal sites."

The Motion Picture Association, independents trade body PACT and the Creative Coalition Campaign also voiced their support.
Illegal The Pirate Bay was launched in 2003 by a group of friends from Sweden and rapidly became one of the most famous file-sharing sites on the web.

Although it hosts no files itself, it does allow users to search for and access copyrighted content including movies, games and TV shows.
In April 2009, the Swedish courts found the four founders of the site guilty of helping people circumvent copyright controls.
The ruling was upheld after an appeal in 2010, but the site continues to function.

Da ne smetnemo sa uma:

Stop SOPA, save the Internet

Quote

Google knows it. Viacom knows it. The Chamber of Commerce knows it. Internet democracy groups know it. BoingBoing knows it. But, the Internet hasn't been told yet -- we're going to get blown away by the end of the year. The worst bill in Internet history is about to become law. Law is very real here in the United States and legal language is often different than stated intentions -- this law would give government and corporations the power to block sites like BoingBoing over infringing links on at least one webpage posted by their users. Believe the EFF, Public Knowledge, Google when they say this bill is about much more than copyright, it's about the Internet and free speech everywhere. The MPAA, RIAA, Hollywood knows that they have been flying in CEOs of as many companies as possible, recruiting people to get petition signups at malls in California, and here's the big point-- they know they have gotten their message through to Congress -- the worst bill in Internet history, the one where government and their corporations get unbelievable power to take down sites, threaten payment processors into stopping payment to sites on a blacklist, and throw people in jail for posting ordinary content is about to pass before the end of this year. The only thing that is going to stop Hollywood from owning the Internet and everything we do, is if there is a big surprise Internet backlash starting right now. PROTECT IP (S. 968)/SOPA (HR. 3261) creates the first system for Internet censorship - this bill has sweeping provisions that give the government and corporations leeway and legal cover for taking down sites "by accident," mistakenly, or for NOT doing "enough" to protect the interests of Hollywood. These bills that are moving very quickly through Congress and can pass before Christmas aim to give the US government and corporations the ability to block sites over infringing links posted by their users and give ISPs the release to take any means to block peoples' sites, including slowing down your connection. That's right, some say this bill is a workaround to net neutrality and is bigger than net neutrality. This is the worst piece of Internet legislation in history - the lawmakers who have been sponsoring (Leahy, Lamar Smith, Conyers) this bill need to be shamed by the Internet community for wasting taxpayer dollars on a bill that would break the very fabric of the Internet, create an Internet blacklist, kill jobs and great startup companies, huge blogs, and social networks.

Everyone, the entire Internet community needs to stand together if we don't want to see this bill actually become law. Internet and democracy groups are planning an Internet-wide day of protest called American Censorship Day on Wednesday, November 16th for the day Congress holds a hearing on these bills to create the first American Internet censorship system. Every single person with a website can join and needs to. Boing Boing, Grooveshark, Free Software Foundation, The Electronic Frontier Foundation, Public Knowledge, Demand Progress, Open Congress/PPF, TechDirt, Fight for the Future and dozens of other sites have created this day to ask you to join them to stop S. 978 and HR 3261, as hard as you can. Write them, protest, call them, protest, support your favorite sites, protest, sign a letter, block out your site, protest. Many public intellectuals who are often the ones to help win the public interest over and over are about to come out to lead the charge to stop PROTECT IP/ SOPA - they have to when they learn that the House and Senate will be working to pass this bill before the Christmas. From those doing work on the hill, it's very clear we have been stacked comparatively lightly. The House bill has 40 co-sponsors and major industry support. The only thing that will change the dynamic now is if Congress gets a knock on their door by CEO"s of small and large tech companies, blogs, and news sites and if Internet users start piling on, one by one, and protest. Tech companies, blogs, news sites are already in a death-do-die battle cry -- listen to them -- it's a few days before the hearing on this bill. But, we need more tech companies, blogs, new sites before the hearing on this bill. Help get them. I've been trying to think about whether or not the world is going to end if this bill passes like it's supposed to -- and the answer is, "kind of yes". When small sites, and it's the small sites that get turned off in the night and no one for the most part notices, say my friend's political blog or news site gets blocked by the US government and she has no way to get it back up even though everything she did was legal according to current law, and no one can help her except she can choose to file suit to defend herself, I feel like I die inside a little. Living in a country where you are being shut out and left powerless to really defend yourself is like living in another country, the ones you hear about. Life starts to feel shot when that happens, especially to our friends or our favorites sites. Every site who has user-generated content, posts links or videos to anything copyrighted in it could face new legal threats. If a copyrights holder disliked links you have on your site, they could simply file a complaint with a payment processor (Visa, PayPal), who would then have 5 days to respond to their request or risk legal ramifications. If bills like this are allowed to pass, we'll be spending another $47 million dollars every year to help corporations fill out and enforce Internet blacklists. Sites that would be legal under the DMCA and its safe harbor provisions would now risk losing everything for allowing user generated content. It also has added in the streaming felony bill that would make it so ordinary Internet users are at risk of going to jail for 5 years for post any copyrighted work that would cost $2,500 to license. And because copyright is so broad, that means videos with copyrighted music in the background, kids in a school play, people singing karaoke could all be a risk. Because the law affects almost every Internet user and the sites they use every day and have come to love, and because granting sweeping blacklisting powers is just sickening to almost everyone, we need your help -- if you can encourage your favorite site to join the protest, and help drive the maximum number of people to contact Congress on November 16th (until the bill dies), please help. These bills represent a major blow to openness and freedom on the Internet, free speech rights, and the fabric of the Internet itself. If SOPA is allowed to pass, the Internet and free speech will never be the same again.

Izvini što ću opet da turim prst. Ovoga puta se slažem sa tobom. Treba ovo znati, ali, zar nisi mogao da prepričaš u kratkim crtama? Ovako, većina neće pročitati, a ima ih i koji neće razumeti.

Evo, na bis:

Priprema se glasanje o zakonu u američkome kongresu, a lobisti za Holivud su odradili sjajnu artiljerijsku pripremu tako da dobar deo predstavnika obe partije kao da će glasati ZA, koji će omogućiti korporacijama da kontrolišu stvari na Internetu još radikalnije nego danas. Do sada ste po DMCA zakonu mogli da, ako ste vlasnik autorskih prava, zatražite od sajta da ukloni sadržaj koji se distribuira bez vaše dozvole. Ako oni to ne bi učinili, mogli biste da ih tužite. Razume se, trn u oku je bilo to što je gomila toga hostovano po stranim, ne-američkim sajtovima pa niste mogli da ih gonite na američkom sudu. SOPA predviđa da možete u takvom slučaju da podnesete zahtev firmi koja se reklamira na tom sajtu i firmi koja im procesuje plaćanja (PayPal, kreditne kompanije itd.) da im u roku od pet dana obustave usluge. U slučaju da oni ne podnesu protivzahtev, ovo se automatski radi.

Dakle, za jedan link koji vodi do, recimo mp3 miksa u kome se nalazi jedna pesma na koju niste platili autorska prava, a koji je postavio neko u komentarima na neki od vaših tekstova, možete da budete odsečni od reklama i plaćanja, bez suđenja ili ikakvog procesa koji nije automatizovan. Korporacije na taj način zaobilaze do sada podrazumevani sistem optužbe i dokazivanja i de fakto kontrolišu sadržaj na Internetu.

Hvala. Sad će i drugima biti jasnije. Od početka cirkulacije elektronskih medija uvek je bio aktuelan problem kako nešto naplatiti. Od slušanja i gledanja do autorskih prava i kontrole čitavog korpusa aktuelnog elektronskog medija. Tekući razvoj globalnih sistema doveo je do bezobzirnosti kapitala, koji više državu ne moli, ne traži, već zahteva. "Veselo vreme dolazi!" napisao je A. Gajdar kao poslednju rečenicu prvog dela svoh romana "Škola".

ha, znači bye bye sceper, onelinkmovie, oneclickmoviez.... moraću da naučim ruski

QuoteEvo, na bis:

Priprema se glasanje o zakonu u američkome kongresu, a lobisti za Holivud su odradili sjajnu artiljerijsku pripremu tako da dobar deo predstavnika obe partije kao da će glasati ZA, koji će omogućiti korporacijama da kontrolišu stvari na Internetu još radikalnije nego danas. Do sada ste po DMCA zakonu mogli da, ako ste vlasnik autorskih prava, zatražite od sajta da ukloni sadržaj koji se distribuira bez vaše dozvole. Ako oni to ne bi učinili, mogli biste da ih tužite. Razume se, trn u oku je bilo to što je gomila toga hostovano po stranim, ne-američkim sajtovima pa niste mogli da ih gonite na američkom sudu. SOPA predviđa da možete u takvom slučaju da podnesete zahtev firmi koja se reklamira na tom sajtu i firmi koja im procesuje plaćanja (PayPal, kreditne kompanije itd.) da im u roku od pet dana obustave usluge. U slučaju da oni ne podnesu protivzahtev, ovo se automatski radi.

Dakle, za jedan link koji vodi do, recimo mp3 miksa u kome se nalazi jedna pesma na koju niste platili autorska prava, a koji je postavio neko u komentarima na neki od vaših tekstova, možete da budete odsečni od reklama i plaćanja, bez suđenja ili ikakvog procesa koji nije automatizovan. Korporacije na taj način zaobilaze do sada podrazumevani sistem optužbe i dokazivanja i de fakto kontrolišu sadržaj na Internetu.

još jedan bis please. znači li to da će rapidshare, megaupload i osali serveri pocrkati i da je to kraj pirateriji kakvu znamo ili će nastaviti da živi u nekom drugom obliku? može li se kakav rasplet predvideti ako taj zakon bude izglasan?

Meni se čini da su "pirati" povod, a ne uzrok. Ako pirati nestanu od toga niko neće imati fajde. Pošto uvek važi follow the money, onda treba videti gde se očekuje drpanje love od tog zakona. Žrtve će biti oni od kojih je moguće još malo iscediti pre nego crknu.

Quote from: niko on 26-11-2011, 14:17:29


još jedan bis please. znači li to da će rapidshare, megaupload i osali serveri pocrkati i da je to kraj pirateriji kakvu znamo ili će nastaviti da živi u nekom drugom obliku? može li se kakav rasplet predvideti ako taj zakon bude izglasan?

Pa, ne znači da će pocrkati, ali može da znači da će biti prinuđeni da ONI nadziru šta njihovi korisnici kače na servere. Dakle, moguće je zamisliti da neće više biti moguće da kačiš stvari na RS i slične servise bez učlanjenja sa stvarnim identitetom i da ćeš prvi put kad se desi da si otkriven u kačenju koipirajtovanog materijala biti lišen članstva bez mogućnosti da ga obnoviš.

Sumnjam da je disciplinovanje cilj. Cilj je da se nekom uzmu pare. Tolerisano je dok se Internet širio - Neka raste sve što može da raste. Sad bi da kultivišu i da izdvoje ono što može da se žanje i nekom naplati.

Pa, pare nisu sporne, ako uzmeš i pročitaš šta piše u obrazloženju za sam dokument, logika je da će strana publika koja je do sada piratovala jer je mogla, nestankom piratskih izvora migrirati ka legalnim izvorima sadržaja. Što generalno nije nezdrava ideja, samo naravno propušta da vidi uzroke piraterije (koji nisu samo u besplatnosti piratskog sadržaja).

MAFIAAFire team's latest browser plugin beats the national firewalls of Britain, USA, and China  By Cory Doctorow at 1:25 pm Wednesday, Nov 30


The creators of the MAFIAAFire browser plugin (which allows you to reach websites whose DNS has been shut down without trial by the US State Department at the behest of entertainment conglomerates) have released a sequel: ThePirateBay Dancing, a plugin that anonymizes your connections to thepiratebay.org and other blocked sites by using randomly picked proxies for each connection.
Attentive readers will remember that the DHS's ICE unit asked Mozilla to remove the MAFIAAFire plugin from its repository, and that Mozilla told them to get bent.

   "DNS and IP blocking is probably the most dangerous part of SOPA/PIPA in terms of 'breaking the Internet,' so we tackled that first. We will be going after the other parts of SOPA in later releases but probably not in 'our usual plugin form' – the other parts require different solutions that we have already started work on," we were told.
Although the add-on carries The Pirate Bay in its name it also works with other sites such as Newsbin2 and BTJunkie which are blocked in the UK and Italy respectively. In a broader sense it can also be used to bypass national "firewalls" such as in China, and soon perhaps the US.
Putting the add-on to work only requires two clicks and is completely free.

  'The Pirate Bay Dancing' Add-On Killls DNS and IP Blockades

Ti si se baš navuko na BoingBoing poslednjih dana 

Nego, taj plagin... ako randomizuje proksije, to znači da mi menja i IP adrese putem nasumičnog izbora servera preko koga pristupam sadržaju, mislim, da li to važi za bilo koji sajt ili samo za blokirane sajtove? Na primer da li to znači da mogu da skidam sa Oron ili nekog drugog hosting servisa bez premium naloga a da ne čekam između dva skidanja?

Eh, BoingBoing je samo jedna kap u masi feedova...Al' sta da radim kad su medju zanimljivijim A ovo nisam probao, cekam da mi zatreba.

Ne znam da li je ovo vec neko postavljao.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/rapper-protests-piracy-bill-with-sopa-cabana/2011/12/20/gIQAfv7R7O_story.html

SOPA Cabana (by Dan Bull)

Jos kad bi bilo sta imalo bilo kakav uticaj. Plasim se da su se nameracili na sopu i da nema odustajanja. Nedavno su imali ekspertska svedocenja u Kongresu, ljudi objasnili kako ce SOPA lose uticati na sigurnost ali je sve to odbaceno kao tehnoloski mambo dzambo. A pitanje je kada ce i druge zemlje krenuti tim putem.

Bijela kuća se protivi SOPA-i

White House says it opposes parts of 2 anti-piracy bills 

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  By Edward Wyatt

New York Times
Posted: 01/14/2012 07:05:18 PM PST Updated: 01/14/2012 09:09:23 PM PST 

    WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration said Saturday that it strongly opposed central elements of two congressional efforts to enforce copyrights on the Internet, all but killing the current versions of legislation that has divided both political parties and pitted Hollywood against Silicon Valley.
The comments by the administration's chief technology officials, posted on a White House blog Saturday, came as growing opposition to the legislation had already led sponsors of the bills to reconsider a measure that would force Internet service providers to block access to websites that offer or link to copyrighted material.
"Let us be clear," the White House statement said, "online piracy is a real problem that harms the American economy, threatens jobs for significant numbers of middle class workers and hurts some of our nation's most creative and innovative companies and entrepreneurs."
However, it added, "We will not support legislation that reduces freedom of expression, increases cybersecurity risk or undermines the dynamic, innovative global Internet."
The bills were designed to combat the theft of copyrighted materials by preventing U.S. search engines from directing users to sites that allow for the distribution of stolen materials. They would cut off payment processors like PayPal that handle transactions.
The bills also would allow private citizens and companies to sue to stop what they believed to be theft of protected content. Those and other provisions set off fierce opposition among Internet companies, technology investors and free speech advocates, who said the bills would stifle online innovation, violate the First Amendment and even compromise national security by undermining the integrity of the Internet's naming system.

In December, a group of influential technology figures, including founders of Twitter, Google and YouTube, published an open letter to lawmakers saying that the legislation would enable Internet regulation and censorship on par with the government regulation in China and Iran.
 

i-ju!

Wikipedija, reddit, Rockpapershotgun i mnogi drugi sajtovi su štrajkovali zbog SOPA i PIPA aktova.

Kome i dalje nije jasno šta je u pitanju, na Vimeu ima zgodno video-objašnjenje:

PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet

Nema balla bez Madballa 

Personaly, I use Wikipedia on a daily basis, and this is my only way to show solidarity and say "FUCK YOU!" to any stupid state and its government, with their greedy anti-piracy legislations. How much is enough Hollywood? How much is enough you Serbian film producers, you get a lots of money from the state to make your uber-ugly movies, and you still want it more?! Jebem li vam bre mamicu onu pohlepnu i pokvarenu, so eat shit and die, you fuckin' money makers. Ma just DIE batali shit! Ni za kurac niste, 13 godina niste snimili iole dobar film (Srpski Film ne računam jer nije iz državne kase) a tu mi se kurčite, ganjate bre neku decu za pirateriju, čega bre pirateriju alo? Pa ko još gleda te vaše smešne filmove poput Parade i Šišanja, ste svesni vi toga ili i dalje tripujete da ste nekakvi umetnici ili koji već kurci?! Neću vam uopšte pominjem imena jer ste pušike i drukare, ali zna se koja je to ekipa, dakle PINK-punk-B92, jebem vas sve u usta ta!

http://abraxas365dokumentarci.blogspot.com/2012/01/wikipedia-in-24-hour-blackout-over-us.html

Меđutim, mangupi u našim redovima ne miruju:

Wikipedia editors question site's blackout

QuoteNEW YORK (AP) — Can the world live without Wikipedia for a day? The shutdown of one of the Internet's most-visited sites is not sitting well with some of its volunteer editors, who say the protest of anti-piracy legislation could threaten the credibility of their work. "My main concern is that it puts the organization in the role of advocacy, and that's a slippery slope," said editor Robert Lawton, a Michigan computer consultant who would prefer that the encyclopedia stick to being a neutral repository of knowledge. "Before we know it, we're blacked out because we want to save the whales." [Related: Timeline of SOPA, PIPA bills]  The protest is aimed at the Stop Online Piracy Act in the House of Representatives and the Protect Intellectual Property Act under consideration in the Senate. Both bills are designed to crack down on sales of pirated American products overseas, and they have the support of the film and music industry. Among the opponents are many Internet companies such as Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Twitter, eBay and AOL. They say the bills would hurt the industry and infringe on free-speech rights. Wikipedia's English-language site shut down at midnight Eastern Standard Time Tuesday (0500 GMT Wednesday) and the organization said it would stay down for 24 hours. Instead of encyclopedia articles, visitors to the site saw a stark black-and-white page with the message: "Imagine a world without free knowledge." It carried a link to information about the two congressional bills and details about how to reach lawmakers. It is the first time the English site has been blacked out. Wikipedia's Italian site came down once briefly to protest an Internet censorship bill put forward by the Berlusconi government. The bill did not advance. The shutdown adds to a growing body of critics who are speaking out against the legislation. But some editors are so uneasy with the move that they have blacked out their own user profile pages or resigned their administrative rights on the site to protest. Some likened the site's decision to fighting censorship with censorship. One of the site's own "five pillars" of conduct says that Wikipedia "is written from a neutral point of view." The site strives to "avoid advocacy, and we characterize information and issues rather than debate them." Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales argues that the site can maintain neutrality in content even as it takes public positions on issues. "The encyclopedia will always be neutral. The community need not be, not when the encyclopedia is threatened," he tweeted. The Wikimedia Foundation, which administers the site, announced the blackout late Monday, after polling its community of volunteer contributors and editors and getting responses from 1,800 of them. "If passed, this legislation will harm the free and open Internet and bring about new tools for censorship of international websites inside the United States," the foundation said. Social news website Reddit.com is shutting down for 12 hours on Wednesday, but most companies are staying up. Google Inc.'s home page, with its logo covered by a black rectangle, linked to a petition urging Congress: "Don't censor the Web."

Dick Costollo, CEO of Twitter, said he opposes the legislation as well, but shutting down the service was out of the question.
"Closing a global business in reaction to single-issue national politics is foolish," Costollo tweeted.
Since Wikimedia depends on a small army of volunteers who create and update articles, it's particularly concerned about a lack of exemptions in the bills for sites where users might contribute copyrighted content. Today, it has no obligation under U.S. law except removing that content if a copyright holder complains. But under the House version of the bill, it could be shut down unless it polices its own pages.
The bill's prospects appeared to be dimming. On Saturday, Rep. Darrell Issa, a California Republican, said the bill would not move to the House floor for a vote unless consensus is reached. However, Lamar Smith, a Texas Republican, said work on the bill would resume next month.
The White House raised concerns over the weekend, pledging to work with Congress to battle piracy and counterfeiting while defending free expression, privacy and innovation in the Internet. The administration signaled it might use its veto power, if necessary.
That the bill seems unlikely to pass is another reason Lawton opposes the blackout.
"I think there are far more important things for the organization to focus aside from legislation that isn't likely to pass anyway," he said. He's been contributing to Wikipedia for eight years.
Danny Chia, another contributor to the site, said he had mixed feelings about the blackout. The neutrality applies to the content, but a lot of people interpret it as being about the site as a whole, said the California software engineer.
In an online discussion, others raised the same point about the blackout: Appearances matter, and if the audience sees Wikipedia taking a stand, it might not believe the articles are objective, either.
Wikipedia has seen a small decline in participation, from a peak of 100,000 active editors a year ago to about 90,000 now. Wikimedia Foundation blames this mainly on outdated editing tools, and believes it can get the number growing again with software upgrades.
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AP Technology Writer Mike Liedtke contributed to this report.
 

чак је и хитлер реаговао...

Hitler reacts to SOPA.

Dobar Hitler.

A u preokretu kome smo se nadali, neki od bivših pobornika SOPA i PIPA dokumenata, sada povlače podršku:

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   A number of high-profile US politicians have withdrawn their support for the controversial SOPA and PIPA anti-piracy laws in the face of online protests.
Senators Marco Rubio (Florida) and Roy Blunt (Missouri), co-sponsors of PIPA, otherwise known as the Protect IP Act, both changed their stance yesterday.
"Congress should listen and avoid rushing through a bill that could have many unintended consequences," Rubio said in a statement.
Utah Senator Orrin Hatch no longer backs PIPA either. "After listening to the concerns on both sides of the debate over the Protect IP Act, it is simply not ready for prime time and both sides must continue working together to find a better path forward," he said in a statement.
Democrat Ben Cardin and the rest of the Republicans have also stopped supporting PIPA.
Over in the House of Representatives, Republicans Ben Quayle of Arizona, Dennis Ross of Florida and Lee Terry of Nebraska all withdrew their support for SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act.
Despite all this, the House intends to resume work on SOPA next month, while Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid still intends to bring PIPA to the Senate floor next week.
SOPA and PIPA were conceived as a way for the likes of film, music and game companies to protect their content from online piracy.
However, opponents have argued that the bills are overbearing and draconian, with potentially devastating consequences should they go through.
For example, SOPA would allow courts to order ISPs and services like Google and Paypal to block access to websites without the sites in question being allowed to defend themselves.
Yesterday many websites chose to protest against all this by blacking out or altering their homepages to raise awareness.   

http://www.buzzfeed.com/hgrant/how-sopa-will-effect-your-day-to-day-life

(Sadržaj je daleko frivolniji nego što naslov sugeriše.)

 

  Megaupload, one of the internet's largest file-sharing sites, has been shut down by officials in the US.

The site's founder have been charged with violating piracy laws
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Federal prosecutors have accused it of costing copyright holders more than $500m (£320m) in lost revenue. The firm says it was diligent in responding to complaints about pirated material.

Investigators denied a link to recent protests against proposed piracy laws, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The US Justice Department said that Kim Dotcom, formerly known as Kim Schmitz, and three others were arrested in Auckland, New Zealand at the request of US officials. It added that three other defendants were still at large.
"This action is among the largest criminal copyright cases ever brought by the United States and directly targets the misuse of a public content storage and distribution site to commit and facilitate intellectual property crime," said a statement posted on its website.

Third-party sites The charges included copyright infringement, conspiracies to commit racketeering, copyright infringement and money laundering.

A federal court in Virginia ordered that 18 domain names associated with the Hong Kong-based firm be seized.
The Justice Department said that more than 20 search warrants had been executed in nine countries, and that approximately $50m in assets had been seized.

It claimed that the accused pursued a business model designed to promote the uploading of copyrighted works.
"The conspirators allegedly paid users whom they specifically knew uploaded infringing content and publicised their links to users throughout the world," a statement said.

"By actively supporting the use of third-party linking sites to publicise infringing content, the conspirators did not need to publicise such content on the Megaupload site. Instead, the indictment alleges that the conspirators manipulated the perception of content available on their servers by not providing a public search function on the Megaupload site and by not including popular infringing content on the publicly available lists of top content downloaded by its users."

Before it was shut down the site posted a statement saying the allegations against it were "grotesquely overblown".
"The fact is that the vast majority of Mega's internet traffic is legitimate, and we are here to stay," it added.
"If the content industry would like to take advantage of our popularity, we are happy to enter into a dialogue. We have some good ideas. Please get in touch."

Blackouts The announcement came a day after thousands of websites took part in a "blackout" to protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act (Sopa) and the Protect Intellectual Property Act (Pipa).
The US Chamber of Commerce has defendend the proposed laws saying that enforcement agencies "lack the tools" to effectively apply existing intellectual property laws to the digital world.
Industry watchers suggest this latest move may feed into the wider debate.
"Neither of the bills are close to being passed - they need further revision - but it appears that officials are able to use existing tools to go after a business alleged to be inducing piracy," said Gartner's media distribution expert Mike McGuire.
"It begs the question that if you can find and arrest people who are suspected to be involved in piracy using existing laws, then why introduce further regulations which are US-only and potentially damaging."

Багра! Крајње је време да земље Слободног Света преузму фајл-хостере на себе, па нек цркну душмани!

Quote"It begs the question that if you can find and arrest people who are suspected to be involved in piracy using existing laws, then why introduce further regulations which are US-only and potentially damaging."

Svesni su oni da se sprema selidba servera, za to ce se pobrinuti SOPA i PIPA.

Ali ovo je stvarno gadan presedan. Ne znam u kojoj je državi registrovan Mediafire ali ako je u Americi, on je sledeći...

He he he, polupaše dilberi sajtove US ministarstva pravde, Universala, i svašta još nešto... Tražite linkove sami.

Да, само што је то привремено, а МУ оде заувек. Још увек ми је мука од беса, пошто сам последњих година користио скоро искључиво њега. Има још добрих хостера, али има и зајебанција с оним кепча-срањима, не држе веће фајлове...

Тек сам сад погледао песму коју су недавно направили, па зар је могуће да су заиста покривали 4% интернет саобраћаја?

Neprijatan, neprijatan presedan. Pogotovo što je MU u principu bio registrovan u Hong Kongu.

http://109.236.83.66/

 

Сачекајмо да видимо није нека превара, пошто се засад осим те прве странице не може ништа добити. А баш сам размишљао о томе, где су сервери који држе сав аплоудован материјал? Не верујем да је све пребрисано.

Него, сјајно ми је и то што због практично америчког закона страдају не само претплатници широм света, него се апси човек који има кинеско и новозеландско држављанство. Нигде нисам успео да нађем да ли је Дотком уопште грађанин САД.

pre neki dan obnovih premium pošto su sinhronizovani crtaći nekim čudom uglavnom na MU. 

Quote from: Джон Рейнольдс on 20-01-2012, 11:13:22
Сачекајмо да видимо није нека превара,

To sam i ja pomislio, al' reko svejedno da okačim odmah.

Ja sam taman pristavio Black Lagoon blueray i vidim neće pa neće da skida.....eto ti ga sad.

http://9gag.com/gag/1978518?ref=fb

KRAJ ABRAXAS BLOGA?!

http://abraxas365dokumentarci.blogspot.com/2012/01/kraj-abraxas-bloga.html

Šta vi mislite, da li će ovim brutalnim gašenjem MEGAUPLOAD-a, čemu će sigurno uslediti i gašenje svih UPLOAD sajtova poput RS, FS, FSC, MS, FJ, FSN, US, etc.itd. cenzori i represivni sistem uopšte, polako ali sigurno konačno uspeti da uguše internet pirateriju a samim tim i ovaj blog? E 'OĆE KURAC, O TAKO MI BOGA I BOŽIĆA, KURČIĆEMO SE DO KRAJA PO CENU PA BILO ČEGA, PA ČAK I GAŠENJE SVIH PIRATE BLOGOVA, DAKLE MOGU SAMO DA NAM PUŠE! BUKVALNO SVI DOKUMENTARCI KOJI SU POSTAVLJANI NA BLOG ZA OVE TRI I PO GODINE NALAZE SE DUBOKO ŠTEKOVANI, SO TIJANIĆU PUŠI GA VOLINO JEDNA NABREKLA ONA, KAD TE RECNEM PO VRATU IMA DA PRŠTI BRE KO GEJZIR U JELOUSTOUNU, A MI, DECA, RAZDRAGANO ĆEMO JURCATI OKOLO I USTIMA HVATATI TAJ TOPLI NAPITAK, TE UŽIVATI U TOJ BANJI NAD BANJAMA NA KOJU SMO TAKO DUGO ČEKALI. SISO JEDNA, JEBEM LI VAM SVIMA I PRVI I POSLEDNJI RED NA SAHRANAMA, SVIMA VAMA KOJI STE DEO OVOG SISTEMA, BILO RUSIJE, BILO AUSTRALIJE, BILO KURCOSLAVIJE, MA SVE SU BRE DRŽAVE ISTO DNO, SEME LI VAM JEBEM POGANO. A I ŠTA I JA SEREM I DELIM IH NA OVE I ONE, SVI SU ONI U TALU I TO POODAVNO, AMBASADE, PRIJEMI, KURCI, PALCI, OPOZICIJA, TADIĆ, DAČIĆ, OBAMA KARAĆE SE S NAMA, ZNAČI, USA I SRBIJA NA KURAC MI SE LAGANO NABIJA I OSVETA ĆE BITI NAŠA, O DA! JUST WAIT AND YOU'LL SEE DA STE SE GADNO, ALI OVAJ PUT BAŠ GADNO ZAJEBALI !

ELEUTERIA N THANATOS,
SLOBODA ILI SMRT,
FREEDOM OR DEATH !

WAR !

Sa druge strane, i bio ti je potreban ovakav događaj da te pokrene. 

Da ga pokrene na šta? Na atentat na Tijanića??? Da, to će rešiti naš problem što sad marginalno teže piratujemo kopirajtovan materijal. 

No, dobro, čovek je besan i izražava se u skladu sa tim.

Ma da ga probudi. Atentat je malo verovatan.  Sad može da krene da sa uspehom traži posao.

Ti si ovaj njegov izliv gneva uspela da vidiš kao signal da je spreman da traži posao? Divno je videti takvu veru u ljude!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Naravno, i ja Sonu želim da svoju energiju usmeri na konstruktivne strane, da ne bude zabune.

Quote from: Джон Рейнольдс on 20-01-2012, 01:33:05
Да, само што је то привремено, а МУ оде заувек. Још увек ми је мука од беса, пошто сам последњих година користио скоро искључиво њега. Има још добрих хостера, али има и зајебанција с оним кепча-срањима, не држе веће фајлове...

Рапидшер је одличан хостер, нема кепча кодова (бар кад се користи ФРД), нема чекања између два фајла, одлична брзина... Мали проблем је што из неког разлога имају мање "егзотичног" садржаја од других (при томе мислим на оригиналне ДВД-ове и блу реј рипове, које волим да скидам у посљедње вријеме).

SOPA is dead  By Mark Frauenfelder at 11:05 am Friday, Jan 20 
Mashable: "Lamar Smith, the chief sponsor of SOPA, said on Friday that he is pulling the bill 'until there is wider agreement on a solution.' ... and ... "'In light of recent events, I have decided to postpone Tuesday's vote on the PROTECT IP Act,' said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) in a statement Friday morning."