SOPA can ban ya

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The Pirate Bay has placed on their home page a SENSATIONAL video, SOPA Cabana (by Dan Bull). Watch it there or on YouTube, it's UNMISSABLE. The name of the video is a game of words with the title of Barry Manilow's 1978 hit "Copacabana", a song about the New York nightclub named after the famous Rio de Janeiro beach, from which the video's song loosely borrows its chorus, and the evil SOPA - Stop Online Piracy Act.

Watch it, like it, add it to your favorites and pass it forward to everyone you can. Or else, fuck you and die a slow, painful death.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w6GtwOvnWM

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Nintendo, EA, Others Vanish From SOPA Supporter List

[jakeson]

Think for just one moment, what will the internet be like when giant corporations with the backing of the government decide for you what is OK and what is not:

http://www.craigslist.org/about/SOPA

Become active!!!

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===> US CITIZENS, TAKE ACTION HERE <===

Wikipedia’s community calls for anti-SOPA blackout January 18

English Wikipedia anti-SOPA blackout

Wikipedia: SOPA initiative

Wikipedia will shut down for 24 hours on Wednesday to protest against SOPA

Wikipedia to blackout all 3,847,673 English-language pages to protest PIPA

Wikipedia plans 24-hour blackout this Wednesday to protest SOPA / PIPA

Wikipedia’s English Site Will Go Black On Wednesday To Protest (SOPA) and (PIPA) Legislation

Wikipedia Blackout In Anti-Piracy Law Protest

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Where does your member of Congress stand on SOPA?

Martin Niemoller (protestant preacher imprisoned by the Nazis): In Germany, they came first for the communists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn't a communist. And then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. And then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn't a Jew. And then... they came for me... and by that time there was no one left to speak up.

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Protests against SOPA and PIPA and related news:

Slideshow in Brazilian newspaper Folha De São Paulo with images of protesting sites

SOPA blackout: Who’s gone dark to protest anti-piracy bills?

The best Sopa protests online – in pictures

SOPA blackout: Bills lose three co-sponsors amid protests

More opponents of PIPA and SOPA emerge on the right

In Fight Over Piracy Bills, New Economy Rises Against Old

Sopa support drops off as blackout protest rattles the internet

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The Pirate Bay's press release regarding SOPA

INTERNETS, 18th of January 2012.
PRESS RELEASE, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE.

Over a century ago Thomas Edison got the patent for a device which would "do for the eye what the phonograph does for
the ear". He called it the Kinetoscope. He was not only amongst the first to record video, he was also the first person
to own the copyright to a motion picture.

Because of Edisons patents for the motion pictures it was close to financially impossible to create motion pictures
in the North american east coast. The movie studios therefor relocated to California, and founded what we today call
Hollywood. The reason was mostly because there was no patent.
There was also no copyright to speak of, so the studios could copy old stories and make movies out of them - like
Fantasia, one of Disneys biggest hits ever.

So, the whole basis of this industry, that today is screaming about losing control over immaterial rights, is that they
circumvented immaterial rights. They copied (or put in their terminology: "stole") other peoples creative works,
without paying for it. They did it in order to make a huge profit. Today, they're all successful and most of the
studios are on the Fortune 500 list of the richest companies in the world. Congratulations - it's all based on being
able to re-use other peoples creative works. And today they hold the rights to what other people create.
If you want to get something released, you have to abide to their rules. The ones they created after circumventing
other peoples rules.

The reason they are always complainting about "pirates" today is simple. We've done what they did. We circumvented the
rules they created and created our own. We crushed their monopoly by giving people something more efficient. We allow
people to have direct communication between eachother, circumventing the profitable middle man, that in some cases take
over 107% of the profits (yes, you pay to work for them).
It's all based on the fact that we're competition.
We've proven that their existance in their current form is no longer needed. We're just better than they are.

And the funny part is that our rules are very similar to the founding ideas of the USA. We fight for freedom of speech.
We see all people as equal. We believe that the public, not the elite, should rule the nation. We believe that laws
should be created to serve the public, not the rich corporations.

The Pirate Bay is truly an international community. The team is spread all over the globe - but we've stayed out of the
USA. We have Swedish roots and a swedish friend said this:
The word SOPA means "trash" in Swedish. The word PIPA means "a pipe" in Swedish. This is of course not a coincidence.
They want to make the internet inte a one way pipe, with them at the top, shoving trash through the pipe down to the
rest of us obedient consumers.
The public opinion on this matter is clear. Ask anyone on the street and you'll learn that noone wants to be fed with
trash. Why the US government want the american people to be fed with trash is beyond our imagination but we hope that
you will stop them, before we all drown.

SOPA can't do anything to stop TPB. Worst case we'll change top level domain from our current .org to one of the
hundreds of other names that we already also use. In countries where TPB is blocked, China and Saudi Arabia springs to
mind, they block hundreds of our domain names. And did it work? Not really.
To fix the "problem of piracy" one should go to the source of the problem. The entertainment industry say they're
creating "culture" but what they really do is stuff like selling overpriced plushy dolls and making 11 year old girls
become anorexic. Either from working in the factories that creates the dolls for basically no salary or by watching
movies and tv shows that make them think that they're fat.

In the great Sid Meiers computer game Civilization you can build Wonders of the world. One of the most powerful ones
is Hollywood. With that you control all culture and media in the world. Rupert Murdoch was happy with MySpace and had
no problems with their own piracy until it failed. Now he's complainting that Google is the biggest source of piracy
in the world - because he's jealous. He wants to retain his mind control over people and clearly you'd get a more
honest view of things on Wikipedia and Google than on Fox News.

Some facts (years, dates) are probably wrong in this press release. The reason is that we can't access this information
when Wikipedia is blacked out. Because of pressure from our failing competitors. We're sorry for that.

THE PIRATE BAY, (K)2012

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Stop ACTA!

Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement

BBC News - Thousands march in Poland over Acta internet treaty

ACTA Will Be Signed Saturday, US and Japan Say

If you live in the US tell your Senators to demand more transparency in ACTA!

Stop Canada from passing ACTA

If in the EU, help collect signatures of Members of the European Parliament for the Written Declaration 12

[claybird]

what about the OPEN act?

http://www.webpronews.com/open-act-truly-open-2012-01

http://www.pcworld.com/article/248525/s ... n_act.html

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Oh my Satan, another one...

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Polish Parliament members wear Anonymous masks to protest ACTA in chambers

Poland Signs Copyright Treaty That Drew Protests

[claybird]

i love that picture of the polish parliament haha


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9dbOo2yl4k

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Pirate Parties Campaign on Behalf of Legit Megaupload Users

"Ireland's SOPA" to Be Debated Next Week

[foXb]

Nice song u got there

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Germany has halted signing a controversial anti-piracy accord, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (Acta), after the justice ministry voiced concerns.

Acta: Germany delays signing anti-piracy agreement



Thousands of people have taken part in co-ordinated protests across Europe in opposition to a controversial anti-piracy agreement.

Acta protests: Thousands take to streets across Europe

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Bulgaria and the Netherlands join Poland and Germany in refusing to ratify Acta, citing privacy and human rights issues

Acta loses more support in Europe

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Facebook Responds to Outrage With Continued CISPA Support

Another day, another Rube Goldberg plan to kill the Internet.

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What You Need to Know About Proposed CISPA Amendments

The possible changes are mostly cosmetic, and may make the bill worse.

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The White House Puts on Veto Gloves Against CISPA

The White House released an official statement warning of a possible veto against the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act.

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Cispa approved by House but critics urge Senate to block 'horrible' bill

Free speech groups say the bill – which Obama has vowed to veto – hands US authorities too much power to use private data.