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

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...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.

I'm with you 100% on this. Why in fuck aren't people getting their pitchforks out yet? This makes every issue we've talked about in STS's history look like small potatoes!

My only guess why the american public isn't up in arms about this is:

1. The MSM isn't breathing a word about this so the masses just aren't hearing it.
2. Merikans already have too much to protest. OWS, NDAA, Election Scandal and etc... Just too many issues going on right now!
3. The toy testing homo isn't exactly reassuring anyone of his credibility...​

If I hadn't clicked through and read the lawsuit filing myself I'd still have doubts as to how much truth there is here, and you know damn well 99% of the country or more will not do what I just did.

So how do we force it in their face? Get Cenq and Alex Jones and RT all to write it up? Get Anonymous on this? Anything better?

There is always a settlement.

But in criminal cases a settlement is going down from life to 12 years or something... Not usually cash involved.

There is no way the government will do anything to these companies, who do you think funds their campaigns?

You're preaching to the Preacher on this point... But since a lawsuit has been filed already... Wouldn't a judge therefore have to throw this out before status quo can be kept up?

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.

Not gonna happen. All those who care about such things are out protesting OWS or involved in some other protest... There is just too fucking much corruption in the system now and only so much can be pointed out at a time.

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.

You'd think they wouldn't want to freely give away all those copies of file sharing programs then, huh?

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.

See, now you're just fantasizing... We all want such freedom and ease but we simply don't live in a free market economy. It's going to take some serious freeing-up of our laws to allow this to happen in our lifetimes.

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.

Correction: This is where the public WANTS the internet to be headed but the losers are going to drag their feet and do unethical things like this threads' topic for 50 years or more to keep it from coming about.

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

The fuck? Are you suggesting that CNet is the only site that allowed anyone to download sharing software before 2008?

Or that at least in 2008 CNet removed their copies of all sharing software?

I thought his later examples of the MSN download pages were the most damning anyway... And of course Microsoft is at the top of the SOPA support list. :glowingeyes_sml: