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Guest · Joined: 15 Aug 2006 Posts: 2163

If the RIAA has so much power, why haven't they shut down the hundreds upon hundreds of torrent sites that currently exist, streaming their precious copyrighted music all day every day? If they have so much power, why haven't they shut down The Pirate Bay that has a section dedicated to mocking companies who use scare tactics to make them remove torrents on their site?

Do you honestly think this bill will somehow overwrite international law?

Get some common fucking sense, for crying out loud.
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Dogen · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 9297 Location: Bellingham, WA

Martian Kyo · Joined: 12 Jul 2006 Posts: 1447

for some reason disabling javascript on my browser enables me to view wikipedia normaly

I suppose the black out is just a silly div layer over all pages. You silly programmers.
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Michael · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 10431

I wouldn't want to take down something wikipedia's size for a day either :p
Let the graphics department deal with it

Thy Brilliance · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 3213 Location: Relative

CTrees · Joined: 21 Jul 2006 Posts: 3615

so, wiki's blackout doesn't appear to affect mobile browsers, either. Well done, guys!

Also, I though reddit and the cheezburger network were supposed to be "going dark" today? I haven't seen that to be true. TheOatmeal has, though.
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Mizike · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 5120 Location: Iowa City

CTrees · Joined: 21 Jul 2006 Posts: 3615

Oh, I get the point. I just think the half-assed implimentation is somewhat amusing in its own right.
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Michael · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 10431

It's a really neat one. They used javascript to obstruct the contents. That means they only have to add a script somewhere and can leave the rest of the (huge) site untouched. People determined to get in can, without any loss of the campaign's effectiveness (people who scoff at this implementation probably knew all about SOPA/PIPA anyway). Meanwhile, crawlers still get the same content as always so it doesn't affect any ratings.

Mindslicer · Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 2:55 pm Post subject:

Chris Dodd chimes in on SOPA blackouts.

WheelsOfConfusion · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 11138 Location: Unknown Kaddath

Make your voice heard.

Google has an internet petition if you feel such things won't hurt. It's what you get when you click on their blacked-out logo.

Wikipedia's English front page links you to your representatives' feedback system, if you haven't noticed.

Monkey Mcdermott · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 2722

suds · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 98

WheelsOfConfusion · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 11138 Location: Unknown Kaddath

The official contact pages for my Senators seem to be broken at the moment. I hope that's due to traffic over SOPA.
I've sent a message to my governor, at least, in no uncertain terms. I expect to get the usual auto-reply jibberish in my inbox for the trouble.

ShadowCell · Joined: 03 Aug 2008 Posts: 5254 Location: California

yeah, my representative will almost certainly vote for it, Republican corporate tool that he is, so that means my inbox will get flooded with emails entreating me to join him in stopping the Obama Socialist Floodtide and Ban Abortion Forever.