nin wrote on Jan 25, 2012, 10:09:

but this requires Windows 7, which I'm not using yet.

Damn Blue, come to the dark side already.

Mr. Tact wrote on Jan 24, 2012, 09:35:
Missed our chance here in Central Illinois -- got nearly an inch of rain instead. It was a little weird to listen to a thunderstorm in late January.

SirKnight wrote on Jan 23, 2012, 13:32:
I'm glad Sony came to their senses and dropped the touch screen button option. Touch screen buttons on phones/tablets suck. It's a very undesirable way to control a game. It's no surprise so many want to hook gamepads to their phone/tablet for games and why things like iCade exist (including their upcoming accessories).

Stickers wrote on Jan 21, 2012, 18:39:
Personally I want a C-17A or B-1B sim. <--- Never gonna happen.

Crustacean Soup wrote on Jan 21, 2012, 03:53:
If there are links to places to illegally download games, that would be prohibited under SOPA, but I'm not positive whether the DMCA would cover it (can't recall, too lazy to reread the law at this hour). If it does, it needs a takedown notice for anything to happen.

The idea was that MU was informed about infringing material but did not take it down. If Youtube hasn't been informed of an infringement, there's no problem. That's what the whole DMCA safe harbor thing is about. Youtube is allowed to stay up, even if they might potentially have infringing material, so long as they don't know about it and remove it when they're asked.

Creston wrote on Jan 20, 2012, 23:27:
Well...

1) Jailbreaking was ruled to be legal. So I'm not sure why a video teaching you how to jailbreak would somehow violate anything, much less

2) actually be copyright infringement. Unless Apple somehow trademarked the entire act of jailbreaking.

I'm not sure what provision you want Youtube to be punished with? Under SOPA this would undoubtedly be illegal (as would reading an email with the word apple in it, most likely), but under the DMCA, there is no infringement in such a video. It's an instructional video and falls (justifiably) under the First Amendment.

Creston

…they are willfully infringing copyrights themselves on these systems; have actual knowledge that the materials on their systems are infringing (or alternatively know facts or circumstances that would make infringing material apparent); receive a financial benefit directly attributable to copyright-infringing activity where the provider can control that activity; and have not removed, or disabled access to, known copyright infringing material from servers they control.

Beamer wrote on Jan 20, 2012, 09:10:
But this isn't true. For one, YouTube works hard to prevent this and works with companies to get their content down.

eRe4s3r wrote on Jan 20, 2012, 08:35:
But that alone isn't illegal as long as a court in Germany doesn't say it is.

eRe4s3r wrote on Jan 20, 2012, 08:17:
Not even saying Megaupload didn't deserve it, they offered streaming with 0 hoops (no captchas, nothing) it was clear to anyone who knew that this wasn't gonna be going well for them.

eRe4s3r wrote on Jan 20, 2012, 06:48:
That must be one hell of a treaty when you can request extradition of someone that has neither the nationality of the country he is in nor the country he is extradited to. To me, thats bona-fide kidnapping. Sanctioned by my own government.. that.. makes me pretty much speechless. Especially since exactly 0 people got hurt in this crime.

Its about time we put the sovereign back in nation

Beamer wrote on Jan 20, 2012, 07:54:
I think pretty much everyone can agree that Megauploads profits were almost exclusively at the expense of content creators.

nin wrote on Jan 19, 2012, 20:20:
So there ya have it - even if sopa doesn't pass, the feds can seize a domain any time they want, with no process whatsoever.

eRe4s3r wrote on Jan 19, 2012, 03:01:
That you never want all your knowledge, ONLINE. Because right when you need it, some political activists just might black out wikipedia for a day, or week, or month.

Bhruic wrote on Jan 19, 2012, 00:47:
Wikipedia even did it fairly well, in that they only seemed to block the site for US users. At least, up here, I could access the site all day fine, so I'm assuming they must not have blocked it globally.