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[felicityking]

• Пт, 22:55: Ugh. After reading about ACTA, I do think the world is going to end this year. It's not 1894 idiotic governments! Stop being ass backwards!
• Пт, 22:56: (ACTA is SOPA/PIPA on an international scale & was secretly negotiated. Leaks are the only reason it's now known about.)
• Пт, 22:57: (& ACTA is far more draconian than SOPA/PIPA. ~Everyone~ should be worried about ACTA.)
• Пт, 23:26: #ACTA will destroy open Net. #EU may be only hope to kill rights-abusing treaty. Tell MEPs to vote NO on ACTA! http://t.co/FGQP9NrF
• Сб, 00:56: Some people have charmed lives, mine is not one of them.

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[princessjune.livejournal.com]

I don't believe that they want to end the internet, I know that they want to end the internet. That's their goal! They want to take us back to the 1940's and the 1950's and keep us ignorant of everything like they did in the past!

[felicityking.livejournal.com]

The internet has been around in some form or another though since the 1970s though. It didn't become accessible to all until the early 1990s. (I still remember taking classes in elementary and jr. high school on "how to use the internet.")

There's no way the entertainment industry could rid of the internet completely even if they wanted to. The net was originally created by the US govt for the US govt. But, they realized, if they released it to colleges and universities, they could recruit more people to work for the govt. Slowly, it went universal.

The govt and the industry certainly want to ~restrict~ our usage of it, but they can't take it away completely because

1. too many hackers who are very smart hackers. Look at what anon did to DOJ after the megaupload takedown.

2. what was once in the hands of few is now in the hands of many: technology nerdery is now accessible to everyone.

3. most businesses, even small business, use the internet to not just make profits, but also to expand. Take away amazon, take away itunes and BOOOM! less profit for the entertainment industry. The industry KNOWS people buy at least half their products from online sources, so they aren't going to ban it completely.

4. The most obvious of all: how many cable/online businesses would go out of business if the govt/entertainment industry blocked us from being online? Over 50% of the world is "connected." The cable companies that connect people online would protest about lost profits before letting that happen. (And they would lose millions.)

So, yeah, we need to worry about how much they'll restrict our free speech and access to online places BUT rest assured, they won't ban us completely from the internet for both monetary and practical reasons.

[princessjune.livejournal.com]

I was talking about this on my blog too! I was also talking about it with my Mom as well, a lot small businesses use the internet and a lot of other places too. Such as Hospitals, Specialists/Doctors, and even the Government...

My Mom was just saying that they only wanted to regulate the internet and I agree. There's a lot of crazy stuff going on in the internet and it's good that they're going to regulate it. Such as people who use it for identity theft and pirating.

[felicityking.livejournal.com]

It's good that they're going to regulate it? You are aware that all those movie gifs, promo pics, editorials, etc that you reblog on tumblr are considered piracy by corporations?

Corporations have a very loose definition of piracy. They don't just limit it to movies being ripped and resold illegally. If you're against piracy, don't reblog fashion editorials. Don't reblog Marie Antoinette gifsets. Don't reblog graphics that used screencaps from films. Don't reblog music. Because ~all of that~ is considered piracy by publishers, movie and music studios. (What the corporations don't consider piracy: you wrote the song, you drew the picture, you made the movie and giffed it)

When you stop doing that, then you can write how the internet needs to be regulated to stop piracy. Because, basically, everything you reblog on tumblr counts as piracy right now.

No, I'm not joking. ACTA/SOPA/PIPA and even the DMCA copyright law are really that strict. That's why many websites (including wikipedia, twitpic, etc) protested and had that mass blackout day in January. (Basically the entire tech community is against ACTA/SOPA/PIPA.)

Oh, and Neil Gaiman, author of Stardust, has even written about the benefits of piracy. (He says his books sales have gone up.) I have to dig up the link but I'll post it here when I do.