This Is A Big Deal

[Holkeye]

Everyone needs to read this.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/15/american-isps-to-launch-massive-copyright-spying-scheme-on-july-12/

[Kokowam]

I guess we need to download as much as we can until then? It's actually kinda freaky, though, but at the same time it feels like one of those "the world is coming to an end" kind of thing except it's more believable and made to be a real threat in that way.

[SirJackRex]

This is legal?

[TDS]

Well, once the porncalypse hits. Anyone with a hard drive full of porn will be able to trade for anything.

[Sophist]

Thank god for locally owned ISPs

[firerain]

sounds pretty sensationalist

and this is coming from me

[IAMFORTE]

This is ridiculous >.<

[Gracie]

sounds pretty sensationalist

and this is coming from me

Why does that genuinely reassure me?

[Holkeye]

Because none of you are from America.

[firerain]

as fucking if they don't already spy on your internet activity anyway. this article is just full of buzz words and sensationalist journalism to stir up the masses.

[SirJackRex]

Last night in Computer and Technology forum, workers reported loud and unidentifiable noises emanating from a link posted by Kevin Holkeye. Many workers rallied against the link when it was discovered to be about Internet censorship.

"It was sensationalist ****," said Kaden Lac. "They're a bunch of complacent *****, too. How they're angered over this when they sit idly by about everything else that goes on in America is dumbfounding, eh."

Gracie Stereotypical was reportedly not responsible for this contention, according to other workers.

[CartoonFan]

This is the kind of thing I was concerned about in this thread. I'd heard about this upcoming measure before. Now do you see why it's important to find work-arounds while we still can?

[Holkeye]

The language isn't important, firerain. Its the story that's being relayed. I don't know if its true, but if it is, its a big deal.

[Kokowam]

as fucking if they don't already spy on your internet activity anyway. this article is just full of buzz words and sensationalist journalism to stir up the masses.

But this means they'll start doing things about it, though.

[firerain]

they already do. a friend of mine had his internet shut off by his ISP for 2 weeks because they found "suspicious" activity

[Malson]

they already do. a friend of mine had his internet shut off by his ISP for 2 weeks because they found "suspicious" activity

This happened to my brother as well, though they said it was because of "excessive bandwidth usage." And this was at a time when he was pirating pretty heavily, and after he stopped, they hadn't stopped shutting the internet off.

We changed ISPs regardless, but it wasn't any secret to me why they did it.

[Gracie]

I downloaded a bunch of stuff at uni. IT guys found out and started making requests I stopped, but still, proved the it staff here rock.

[Lethrface]

lol I don't know one IT guy who has paid for anything more than monthly antivirus protection lol. 

Yep.  This is a pretty big deal, regardless of wording.  If the situation is really going on then people NEED to get a fire lit under peoples asses.  It may be a slight bias but the information remains the truth as long as what they are proposing is accurate.  Name one media outlet that doesn't have bias in their articles. 

[Link]

This is the kind of thing I was concerned about in this thread. I'd heard about this upcoming measure before. Now do you see why it's important to find work-arounds while we still can?

You should of linked that thread you made, about how if the internet was censored, you would take hostages to fight the man.

I wish i could find that thread, it was great.

Also waiting for the UK/Europe version to be announced, after SoPA and the europe ActA seems like this will come here soon under a new name.

[Holkeye]

Oh yeah, haha. Animefan with a replica sword against the army. That was classic.

[SirJackRex]

So would these companies be spying on your traffic? I mean, how would they know otherwise, assuming this isn't just p2p traffic they'll be monitoring.

So like...couldn't hosts rename files or use other obfuscation methods to mask the real file? (Assuming that they'll not be downloading any random file.)

[Acolyte]

Isn't that a violation of privacy laws?

[Lethrface]

Isn't that a violation of privacy laws?

yup and that is why its a big deal

[firerain]

implying the american government and other governments (including mine) don't already violate our privacy.

[Lethrface]

implying the american government and other governments (including mine) don't already violate our privacy.

Nobody is implying anything like that.  We shouldn't have to say it for anyone to get the hint.  The point is it shouldn't be legal for them to do it.