[Situação: Suspenso por período indeterm.] A luta contra a SOPA (Desta SOPA não comerei!)

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Anonymous downs government, music industry sites in largest attack ever

Hacktivists with the collective Anonymous are waging an attack on the website for the White House after successfully breaking the sites for the FBI, Department of Justice, Universal Music Group, RIAA and Motion Picture Association of America.


In response to today’s federal raid on the file sharing service Megaupload, hackers with the online collective Anonymous have broken the websites for the FBI, Department of Justice, Universal Music Group, RIAA, Motion Picture Association of America and Warner Music Group.
“It was in retaliation for Megaupload, as was the concurrent attack on Justice.org,” Anonymous operative Barrett Brown tells RT on Thursday afternoon.
Only hours before the DoJ and Universal sites went down, news broke that Megaupload, a massive file sharing site with a reported 50 million daily users, was taken down by federal agents. Four people linked to Megaupload were arrested in New Zealand and an international crackdown led agents to serving at least 20 search warrants across the globe.
The latest of sites to fall is FBI.gov, which finally broke at around 7:40 pm EST Thursday evening.
Less than an hour after the DoJ and Universal sites came down, the website for the RIAA, or Recording Industry Association of America, went offline as well. Shortly before 6 p.m EST, the government's Copyright.gov site went down as well. Thirty minutes later came the site for BMI, or Broadcast Music, Inc, the licensing organization that represents some of the biggest names in music.
Also on Thursday, MPAA.org returned an error as Anonymous hacktivists managed to bring down the website for the Motion Picture Association of America. The group, headed by former senator Chris Dodd, is an adamant supporter of both PIPA and SOPA legislation.
Universal Music Group, or UMG, is the largest record company in the United States and under its umbrella are the labels Interscope-Geffen-A&M, the Island Def Jam Motown Music Group and Mercury Records.
Brown adds that “more is coming” and Anonymous-aligned hacktivists are pursuing a joint effort with others to “damage campaign raising abilities of remaining Democrats who support SOPA.”
Although many members of Congress have just this week changed their stance on the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA, the raid on Megaupload Thursday proved that the feds don’t need SOPA or its sister legislation, PIPA, in order to pose a blow to the Web.
Brown adds that operatives involved in the project will use an “experimental campaign” and search engine optimization techniques “whereby to forever saddle some of these congressmen with their record on this issue.”

http://rt.com/usa/news/anonymous-doj-universal-sopa-235/

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Senate leaders from both parties back away from PROTECT IP

The PROTECT IP Act continued to suffer serious blows on Thursday as both the Senate Majority Leader and the Senate Minority Leader made moves that further damaged the anti-piracy bill's chances of passage. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) will not seek to use his leverage over other Democrats to ensure the Protect IP Act gets enough votes to overcome a filibuster. Meanwhile, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) joined other Republican senators in blasting Reid for rushing the legislation to the Senate floor.

Ordinarily, party leaders use their leverage over their members to "whip" them into voting in line with the rest of their caucus. But according to Politico, "Reid won't whip Democratic votes for an online anti-piracy bill, according to sources familiar with his plans." That means Democrats will feel free to oppose the bill without worrying that they will be denied future favors by party leaders.

"The decision deals a severe blow to movie, music and television producers, who had hoped to withstand a surprisingly strong Silicon Valley surge against the bill," Politico reports.

Meanwhile, on the Republican side, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell joined the growing chorus of Republican Senators accusing Reid of rushing the bill through the Senate without adequate debate.

"While we must combat the on-line theft of intellectual property, current proposals in Congress raise serious legal, policy and operational concerns," McConnell said. "Rather than prematurely bringing the Protect IP Act to the Senate floor, we should first study and resolve the serious issues with this legislation."

He urged the Democratic leadership to "reconsider its decision to proceed to this bill."

For more details on the "serious issues" with PIPA, Sen. Reid might want to ask his staff to check out our coverage from yesterday.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/senate-leaders-of-both-parties-back-away-from-protect-ip.ars

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SOPA / PIPA Co-Sponsors Drop Like Flies As Millions Protest

Today the Internet is witnessing the largest protest in its history, aimed at killing two pending anti-piracy bills. The effort has not been without results. During the past few hours several Senators who co-sponsored SOPA and PIPA have dropped their support. The protests made them realize that the legislation is flawed, and a potential threat to the future of the Internet.

Below is a list of PIPA and SOPA co-sponsors who have now dropped their support for the pending legislation.

Ver a lista: http://torrentfreak.com/pipa-sopa-co-sponsors-drop-like-flies-120118/

Ceinwyn escreveu:

Muito bom!

Lembrou-me uma pergunta que vi nesses questionários que são passados pela Internet:

"If you had a Death Note, would you use it?"

Nesta altura, a falta que fazia um...

Arquivada mais uma vez. Vamos ver quanto tempo demora até vir ao de cima, com peles de cordeiro.
Pessoalmente volto a dizer para considerarem: pensem duas vezes antes de consumirem filmes de Hollywood (que sejam pirateados ou comprados). É essa cambada que está cheia de dinheiro e a apostar neste tipo de lobbies.

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PIPA postponed indefinitely

The Internet was awarded a major victory Friday morning as Congress announced that they will indefinitely postpone voting on the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA).
The win, while a major success viewed in the eyes of advocates for a free and open Internet, is for the meantime, however, only a momentary one. Lawmakers hope that revamped legislation will be penned while Congress considers finding a fair balance that will appeal to both the entertainment industry lobbying for stricter laws and its array of opponents, largely represented by Silicon Valley and the Web.
“There is no reason that the legitimate issues raised by many about this bill cannot be resolved,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said Friday morning in a prepared statement. While he condemned illegal activity on the Web, Senator Reid added that lawmakers will “continue engaging with all stakeholders to forge a balance between protecting Americans’ intellectual property, and maintaining openness and innovation on the Internet.”
The announcement comes only two days after a massive campaign on the Internet voluntarily blacked out some of the biggest sites on the Web, particularly Wikipedia and Reddit. Others that did not participate in the campaign but advertised strong opposition were Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, the website icanhazcheeseburger.com and rapper MC Hammer.
“We don’t want people who spend their days legislating trying to control creativity,” Hammer said. “I speak on behalf of a lot of artists … who would like to be able to continue to utilize the valuable tools that the Internet has brought.”
Following Wednesday’s massive blackout, at least 38 Senators either vowed to vote no on PIPA or were largely considering doing so. As RT reported on Thursday, however, entertainment industry bigwigs who remained opposed to the legislations were beginning to draw a rift within Washington with some Hollywood tycoons vowing to end donations to the campaign of Barack Obama due to the president’s anti-SOPA stance.

http://rt.com/usa/news/pipa-indefinitely-sopa-internet-309/

Valeu a pena as pessoas se unirem e manifestarem-se. Eles adiarem por tempo indefinido, foi para serem politicamente correctos, e evitarem chumbar aquela proposta. Desta SOPA estamos safos ao que parece.

Já que estamos numa de ter um tópico gigantesco com imensos vídeos e citações de outros lados, recomendo também este:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h2dF-IsH0I&t=15

Quanto ao vídeo em que o senhor da barba fala da CNet e do Download.com que o Averróis postou (ali em cima): apesar de o tipo dizer umas quantas barbaridades como "os autores da SOPA querem fechar o Twitter, Facebook, Google e Wikipédia" e outras coisas do género, numa coisa concordo com ele: sempre me pareceu muito estranho o download.com e outros sites do género disponibilizarem certos programas, contra os quais os detentores desses sites sempre se insurgiram... Enfim, negócios são negócios... Estes episódios de promiscuidade entre Hollywoods e quejandos e legisladores só demonstram o que já não precisava de ser demonstrado: que o lobbying é apenas mais uma parte do negócio. Adiante...

Ah, e Urânia: esse vídeo do Daily Show está muita bom! Parti-me a rir com o Jon Stewart.

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Última hora – Parlamento Europeu chumbou acordo ACTA

Depois do SOPA, foi chumbado hoje, no Parlamento Europeu, em Estrasburgo, o tão polémico acordo ACTA – Acordo Comercial Anticontrafação.
O protocolo internacional que havia gerado controvérsia e dividido opiniões dentro da União Europeia, foi hoje a votos e acabou mesmo por ser chumbado com 478 votos contra e apenas 39 votos a favor. As abstensões foram 169.
Este chumbo indica, assim, a ‘morte’ deste acordo que fica sem efeito na União Europeia.
Após a votação, vários eurodeputados exibiram pequenos cartazes onde se lia «Hello Democracy, Goodbye ACTA»

Mais: http://pplware.sapo.pt/pessoal/parlamento-eurupeu-chumbou-acordo-acta/