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delsdad wrote:Doesn't your constitution protect you against such things? Since this would amount to unreasonable search and seizure, or guilty without a trial ? Here it would be challenged, successfully, as unconstitutional .

Our constitution only protects us from such things if we file suit and pay to have the matter considered by our Supreme Court. T'ain't cheap.

The good news is that this has the potential to piss off enough people that we'll be able to afford the cost of the trials.

It's also going to be a boon for offshore DNS services; I'm signing up as soon as the bill passes.

It will affect where the root servers are as well. Everything related to DNS will get pushed out of the US, not good.

Soon it'll be a BGP community that we must all support to take down an IP...

ktulu wrote:Soon it'll be a BGP community that we must all support to take down an IP...

Over my and the whole internet's dead body.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJIuYgIvKsc

An interesting take on what started the whole P2P thing.

Anyone here see how Rep. Paul Ryan caved into a campaign by Reddit users over SOPA?

http://mashable.com/2012/01/09/paul-ryan-sopa/

To me that's one down and 434 to go.

Zazu wrote:Our constitution only protects us from such things if we file suit and pay to have the matter considered by our Supreme Court. T'ain't cheap.

The good news is that this has the potential to piss off enough people that we'll be able to afford the cost of the trials.

It's also going to be a boon for offshore DNS services; I'm signing up as soon as the bill passes.

Hi Bruce-

You might look at this

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/desopa/

if SOPA comes to pass. Sorry not to have written lately. Judy's mother passed away Thanksgiving day. She's the executrix of the estate and we've been busier than a one-legged man at a butt kicking party.

delsdad wrote:Doesn't your constitution protect you against such things?

*snicker* It does, when you get government officials to whom the Constitution matters. So far by my count, there could be two of 'em, and those two never make it to Washington. No, I don't mean Washington State.

Isn't the Constitution that thing that's written on the toilet paper in government buildings?

No, Lasolimu. If they put it on the toilet paper, the Constitution would then mean too much to them. They would actually find it too useful for the things they do.

If there's anything on Wikipedia you want to look up you better look it up soon. At 05:00 UTC Wednesday (12:00 Eastern, 21:00 Pacific (Tuesday)) the English-language Wikipedia will be blacked out for 24 hours in protest of the SOPA and Protect IP Acts. You can find information on this black out here.

I just saw that the administartion has come out against the acts. I didn't read the article, just caught the headline. I'll have to check out the full thing later.