ZeroDamage January 19, 2012 Share ZeroDamage Member January 19, 2012 The feds shut it down even though it follows through on DMCA takedown requests. Go figure. May be time for me to go to... oh wait. Nevermind. We never speak of it. http://www.foxnews.c...haring-website/ Oh yeah, this means that icefilms.info and vidoox.com are no more. Or at least not functioning for a good while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lousiest January 19, 2012 Share lousiest Member January 19, 2012 rip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stutters January 19, 2012 Share stutters GC Alumni January 19, 2012 apparently doj.gov, mpaa.org, and riaa.org are also no more Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lousiest January 19, 2012 Share lousiest Member January 19, 2012 haha, yeouch! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinkadeus January 20, 2012 Share Cinkadeus Member January 20, 2012 And this was without SOPA/PIPA. From what I understand, they weren't in the US and were arrested abroad. As well as their servers were not housed in the US, yet the US government arrested them. Were they breaking law, yes. Am I comfortable with how this played out, no. I may be just talking out of my hynee though so feel free to correct me (as if I'd have to ask ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ValenAlvern January 20, 2012 Share ValenAlvern Member January 20, 2012 (edited) What the heck, I am tinkled. I had legal things I had on megaupload, specifically user generated stuff that I cant get back. EDIT: hah, tickled, almost as funny as jarated Edited January 20, 2012 by ValenAlvern Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amertrash January 20, 2012 Share amertrash Member January 20, 2012 And this was without SOPA/PIPA. From what I understand, they weren't in the US and were arrested abroad. As well as their servers were not housed in the US, yet the US government arrested them. Were they breaking law, yes. Am I comfortable with how this played out, no. I may be just talking out of my hynee though so feel free to correct me (as if I'd have to ask ) Has nothing to do with SOPA/PIPA, DHS's ICE has seized hundred's domain names with no warrants/court/due process, including multiples one which weren't doing anything illegal and waiting for a year to return them with no money paid for lost profit. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/12/ice-admits-months-long-seizure-of-music-blog-was-a-mistake.ars, one of many examples. SOPA/PIPA will allow copyright holders to claim infringement and have an entire website taken down with no due process, example if I linked to the Pirate Bay they could seize the entire GC domain without warning, even if I provided a link to a link to a link to a link that eventually ended up in "pirated material". Currently copyright holders have to issue a DMCA(which you should have written your senator/house member about when it was up) take down notice and the website has so much time to respond to fix it. I'm sure everyone has seen youtube videos that are no longer available because of copyright infringement, that is from DMCA notices. Even better SOPA/PIPAs wording is very ambiguous as to what could be done with it, due to our congress's complete and total incompetence when it comes to anything technology related("It's not a big truck, it's a series of tubes" ring a bell), rather just listen to the copyright lobbyists and push forward a bill that they wrote. The same lobbyist groups that tried to make TVs, VCRs, cd/dvd burners, cassette tapes illegal - any form of new media which they felt would threaten their bottom line, the same reason you pay a tax on every blank CD you buy that goes to the RIAA. Side note, what MegaUpload is accused of is all kinds of bad and I'd say true. Here is a good explanation: http://www.reddit.com/r/SOPA/comments/oo5px/the_real_deal_with_megaupload_put_down_your/ What the heck, I am tinkled. I had legal things I had on megaupload, specifically user generated stuff that I cant get back. I prefer tinkled. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinkadeus January 20, 2012 Share Cinkadeus Member January 20, 2012 No, no, I said this was all done WITHOUT SOPA/PIPA... Implying this will only get worse if they were to pass. But you're right, even so much as linking to a TBP torrent or stating 'how to' do torrenting would be against SOPA/PIPA. And they could shut us down with an accusation alone. And ever since that congressman made that 'series of tubes' comment I've always called it the intertubes. They have about as much knowledge about technology as I have about neurosurgery. But I don't make the rules for surgeons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stutters January 20, 2012 Share stutters GC Alumni January 20, 2012 http://static.thepiratebay.org/legal/sopa.txt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VooDooPC January 21, 2012 Share VooDooPC Member January 21, 2012 http://static.thepir.../legal/sopa.txt Even the devil can cite scripture for his purpose. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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