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Originally Posted by NewNick
And you need to stop your silly scaremongering about "breaking the internet".
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So you have no rebuttals for any of the points raised by the DNS experts? OK.Didn't think you'd be able to offer much on that front.
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Originally Posted by NewNick
And I dont really care if you have a link where someone says some problems might ensue.
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Ah, so you just pretend there are no DNS experts saying there will be problems and*that* is your counterpoint?
I bet you didn't do well at debating at school.
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Originally Posted by NewNick
That is not "proof" that one day we will turn on our computers and the internet will be gone in a puff of smoke,
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Read the articles. No one is saying the internet will be gone in a puff of smoke. Point/counterpoint. That is how you have an interesting discussion.
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Originally Posted by NewNick
"broken" by a law designed to reinforce the basic laws of property and ownership.
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Or a law designed to give the government control to censor the internet for Americans. Look, China already has this censorship. Has it stopped piracy there? Why do you think giving control of DNS to the government will fix the problem here? Do you really think that pirates are just going to stop? You don't think they will do something else? ftp servers begat IRC which begat usenet which begat napster which begat bit torrent which begat file lockers. Pirates have a good history of adapting.
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Originally Posted by NewNick
The easy porn money is probably gone for good, but that does not mean that adult industry peeps cannot support a law which aims to protect the creator of intellectual property from having it stolen.
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I think everyone in the world would support a law that just did that. SOPA isn't that law.
The real problem is that THERE IS NO TECHNOLOGICAL SOLUTION TO PIRACY. None. Nothing will work.
What needs to happen is that people need to stop wishing it was 1990. It isn't. Things have changed. You need to find a new way to get people to pay for your product. Period. It seems that some people are managing to make millions from releasing their stand up comedy. What can you learn from that?