Originally Posted by stocktrader23 (Post 18690127)

There is no reason to bring YouTube, Google or Facebook into this shit. Sue the people fucking up and let the rest of us go about our business. :2 cents:

Originally Posted by stocktrader23 (Post 18690127)

There is no reason to bring YouTube, Google or Facebook into this shit. Sue the people fucking up and let the rest of us go about our business. :2 cents:

Originally Posted by Half man, Half Amazing (Post 18690150)

The only people bringing YouTube, Google or Facebook into this are the people trying to use the fear of losing those sites in order to protect The Pirate Bay.

Read the freaking law...it says the site has to be nearly TOTALLY DEDICATED to the infringement of copyright. The sites you mentioned DO NOT fall under this definition. Furthermore, the entire law is geared towards FOREIGN ROGUE SITES that don't comply with DMCA. I've sent shitloads of DMCAs to Google, Youtube and Facebook and they comply with DMCAs. YouTube has 3 strikes, Facebook has similar and Google removes URLs from it's index within a few hours. These aren't the sites SOPA is concerned with. But if you want to keep being a tool for the Electronic Freeloader Foundation to spread fear mongering lies, you do it knowing you're being manipulated.

Originally Posted by Half man, Half Amazing (Post 18690150)

The only people bringing YouTube, Google or Facebook into this are the people trying to use the fear of losing those sites in order to protect The Pirate Bay.

Originally Posted by Cherry7 (Post 18690152)

There is a reason to bring them into this... They are making money directing people to stolen content, selling ads while people watch stolen content, and not wanting to regulate websites they control but just milk them for max profit.

Originally Posted by blackmonsters (Post 18690153)

They wouldn't be in it if they were not publishing the content.
No surfer uploaded google images. :1orglaugh

Google images is fucking ridiculous.
If google video worked like google images and the video would play while blocking
the actual webpage you would shit bricks when you saw you entire website ripped there.

Originally Posted by porno jew (Post 18690166)

since sopa is only going after foreign websites which foreign websites do you perceived as stealing sales from you? can you name one?

Originally Posted by stocktrader23 (Post 18690164)

Yeah, nobody brings them into it at all. There aren't any idiots, especially in this very thread, that equate Google images with copyright infringement. Oh way, there is a page two. :Oh crap

Originally Posted by Half man, Half Amazing (Post 18690145)

Pirates operating out of the Ukraine and Slovakia is a bit of a hassle no? Pirates that don't give a shit about a ruling in an American court. Pirates that hide behind Chinese and Ukrainian whois protect services that have no physical address and an email that bounces. Pirates that are using ISP's based in the Netherlands who are havens for spammers, phishers and content thieves and could care less about a US lawsuit. Pirates who operate off not .com's or .net's and instead use domains outside of any US jurisdiction.

Originally Posted by GregE (Post 18690206)

Exactly.

And the real rub here is that is precisely those aspects of (the original) SOPA, which worry people the most, that are in fact the only tools that will work against the offenders you've just described.

It's an ugly situation and, as is all too often the case, pretty solutions don't often lend themselves to such.

Whatever ultimately goes down however, I don't think there can be much question as to who paved the way.

Originally Posted by Half man, Half Amazing (Post 18690217)

It would have been nice to see the criminal organizations like the Phaze group, Liam Jones' network and the HornyWhores/LiveMedia crime rings have to defend themselves. But luckily for them they are protected by people who think that any law the government passes will take away their cute kitten videos on YouTube. The criminals are loving all the free lobbying being done on their behalf.