CBS/VIACOM Facilitate uTorrent/Kazaa Download as Fuel for SOPA?

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This guy is annoying as hell, but he makes an interesting point:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJIuYgIvKsc&feature=g-u&context=G284d3e5FUAAAAAAADAA]Be a HERO and Help STOP SOPA Now!! I'll tell you How! This Video that Must Be SHARED! - YouTube[/ame]

If you skip to around 3:00 he starts talking about how CBS is responsible for hundreds of millions of downloads of file sharing programs and in fact encouraged illegal uses of the programs.
 
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Damn that's awesome.

Everyone here needs to watch this solid, damning evidence of a global media takeover attempt by CBS/Time Warner. They should be sued well beyond bankruptcy for this shit!

Despite the astronomical levels of gayness and annoying speaking habits of the author, I do sincerely believe that this small youtube video deserves a Pullitzer (or similar web video version) prize.

Great share.
 
Whoa.. More to the story, it's a lot bigger than this fat homo's idea:

On Nov 14th the lawsuit was filed on behalf of a large group of people including recording artists against CBS in the california courts. Everything that gay toy tester said was true... But old news.

He made a nice site (cbsyousuck.com) linking to the complaint and giving other evidence.
 
lukep said:
Whoa.. More to the story, it's a lot bigger than this fat homo's idea:

On Nov 14th the lawsuit was filed on behalf of a large group of people including recording artists against CBS in the california courts. Everything that gay toy tester said was true... But old news.

He made a nice site (cbsyousuck.com) linking to the complaint and giving other evidence.
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Still pretty interesting overall though. I emailed my congresswoman with the info and I'll follow up with a call.

Napolean said:
Kazaa? Do people still use that? I don't believe it. WinMX was way better.
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People still use anything other than torrents?
 
Re: Which fileshare program is better: Guys guys guys... Get with the program! The topic here is:

CBS/Viacom/Time Warner has been Caught trying to take over the Internet. There is now a class-action lawsuit against them for being, basically, evil to the extreme.

My Quandry: What is a suitable punishment for this??? How much should they be fined? Is any fine too small? Is it legal to have them somehow broken up or shut down? (Of course that goes against all of my libertarian sensibilities but damn, this is a lot of carefully calculated evil over the period of a decade we're talking about...

What exactly would the Corporate version of the death sentence be?
 
lukep said:
What exactly would the Corporate version of the death sentence be?
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For companies like these? Kicking their lobbyist out of Washington.

These guys thrive on government sponsored monopolies. They make sure laws and regulations are pushed through that raise the barrier to entry for their industry is too high for competitors to get a foothold.
 
The biggest problem is some of these RIAA people are absolute nutjobs.

All About SOPA, the Bill That Wants to Cripple Your Internet Very Soon

That last quote "Jailed for five years for singing their favorite pop song". I remember reading a quote years ago, some lady from the RIAA who said she wished there were a way to sue people for so much as humming a song in their car on the way to work.

They are absolutely nuts.

I would be for a massive boycott of anyone supporting this bill:
SOPA Supporters

Only problem is, which cable/high speed internet providers are not actually on this list?

I don't see Verizon on there or AT&T, but I do see Time Warner and others.

Also, since this bill bans by DNS servers, couldn't people just use different DNS servers instead of the DNS servers provided by their ISP's?
 
Re: Which fileshare program is better: Guys guys guys... Get with the program! The topic here is:
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Does nobody recognize a joke around here anymore

As to topic at hand nothin is goin to happen to CBS or any other sopa supporters they play by there own set of rules and nobody has the balls to play on the same level
 
@Napolean: LOL; I'm using openDNS but I doubt that 5% of the USA knows that they have an option, or even that such a thing exists.

Yeah, the RIAA is a nuthouse. Hopefully this lawsuit is going to take away every weapon they have.
 
lukep said:
Aren't jokes supposed to be funny anymore
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Couldn't agree more which is why I was makin fun of what I thought was a horrible joke? But it turns out he was serious

What kind of impact do you see this lawsuit happening? If it gets traction they just settle it and it goes away. The fact that they masterminded one of the largest scams in history will fall on deaf ears the problem is 95% of people are to lazy to even be bothered with boycotting (which would b the most effective thing)
 
dmnEPC said:
What kind of impact do you see this lawsuit happening? If it gets traction they just settle it and it goes away. The fact that they masterminded one of the largest scams in history will fall on deaf ears the problem is 95% of people are to lazy to even be bothered with boycotting (which would b the most effective thing)
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You may be right, but what if they don't settle? What if their demand is for the imprisonment of the CEOs of CBS, Time Warner, etc and an immediate C&D on all involvement with SOPA and the other bill?

...This really is a job for Batman. Our system doesn't really have a procedure for this shit.
 
lukep said:
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My Quandry: What is a suitable punishment for this??? How much should they be fined? Is any fine too small? Is it legal to have them somehow broken up or shut down? (Of course that goes against all of my libertarian sensibilities but damn, this is a lot of carefully calculated evil over the period of a decade we're talking about...

What exactly would the Corporate version of the death sentence be?
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Politicians love to throw terrorism around, I think the execs are guilty of cyber terrorism and should be the first held indefinitely without charge.

But seriously, somebody really does need to hang for this. Time Warner and others are guilty as well. A power grab of this size is arrogant as hell. This makes the UK phone scandal look like petty theft IMO.
 
lukep said:
You may be right, but what if they don't settle? What if their demand is for the imprisonment of the CEOs of CBS, Time Warner, etc and an immediate C&D on all involvement with SOPA and the other bill?

...This really is a job for Batman. Our system doesn't really have a procedure for this shit.
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There is always a settlement. The stakes are just to high. There is no way the government will do anything to these companies, who do you think funds their campaigns? At this point the only thing that can be done is a grass roots effort to bombard Washington with an anti SOPA message and threaten millions of votes. From the looks of it more than likely just a political ploy for the Obama regime to come in and save the day. After he squashes the bill he will go on his reelection campaign spewing the bullshit about how he saved the internet. Its going to be a huge spectacle and be way beyond anything Al Gore spewed about inventing the internet. Then our black knight will be able to cruise into his second term.

Meanwhile the giant media conglomerates will continue to crush technology. They are really scared. The cable & satellite companies (and the networks) know that if they don't stop internet sharing in 10 years or less nobody is going to pay for cable or satellite tv. This in turn scares the networks because they can charge billions for ads. They don't want you to control what you watch. They cant see that they will make more money then they ever dreamed by consolidating and merging together to build giant content sites and charging unlimited monthly subscriptions. But its going to take huge companies (Google, Amazon, Apple) to do it right. It probably wont happen the right way though. Everyone thinks that their content is great and they should get $50 for the last season of Lost or whatever stupid show they own.

The answer? The media companies still sell their products (with the ads) to competing companies just like they do with the current market but to possibly different companies. The only way it can work though is to be able to access all of the content you want to watch. If you want to watch the latest movie you click on it. If you want to watch the last 4 seasons (and current season) of Breaking Bad you click on it. All in one easy to use interface and you pay a monthly subscription for it. It can even work the same as the current market. $40 for a basic package $75 for the most popular $100 for movies. $110 for sports or whatever the math needs to be. They can track what you watch so they can then turn around and pay the content owner the .10 cents for each show. The more the content is watched the more you get paid (just like today's market) and everyone is making gobs and gobs of cash.

The cable industry needs to figure out their place in this (providing bandwidth) and do that better than anyone else. They could stay relevant just by starting a monthly online subscription (open to anyone) for their content that they already own.

This is where the internet is headed and the losers are going to go kicking and screaming the whole way. The winners are going to innovate and not be afraid to make their content available and make billions and billions of dollars.
 
So this guy just lost a bit of credibility with me turns out CBS didn't buy CNet until 2008 which pretty much invalidates 90% of this video
 
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