Internet Censorhip is starting to show it's teeth, even though ACTA, SOPA, PIPA is not yet signed

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Yeah quite a few sites have either been taken down or were taken down because they were scared. Kind of sad. Can't imagine what it would be like if they had passed that legislation into law. x____x

And this is why I give everyone this advice:

If you know of something awesome, DO NOT publicize it all over the place. By this I mean things like posting a publicly-viewable link to it on the web.

Ok, it seems like it was a nice knowing internet, farewell....
I guess that would be my words if acta would be on full power... :/

You might not know, but Shonen Jump will be releasing a digital version of it's magazine on English, tho it will be 2 weeks later after original release. So most scan/translating groups are closing because of that.

Well you know, that site was stealing. Plain and simple, that's not really the problem with SOPA etc. That site was very publicly giving people access to stolen stuff. Big difference.

What you're completely ignoring is that the general idea behind SOPA wasn't a bad thing, it's just the side effects of it that were. It is completely reasonable to shut down a site if they are providing someone else's service for free. Think of it this way: if a person stole the physical manga from an actual store and then started just handing them out on the street, it'd make sense when they were arrested for theft.

I'm not saying that "censorship" is a good thing, what I'm saying is that punishing people who break the law is completely reasonable.

That's all right, they can take manga.

I really have to wonder how they justify enforcing a law that hasn't been passed.

It's not really censorship if the government is protecting IP. The entire reason SOPA had opposition was because it defined IP vaguely and allowed for entire sites to be taken down even if only a tiny percentage of users uploaded copyrighted material, even if the purpose of the site wasn't to break the law.

So if a site made for piracy goes down, stop whining. If Youtube goes down, do whatever the fuck you want (this is the idea that prompted the SOPA opposition).

Rite after Sopa was crushed the feds moved in on Megaupload and many other sites, it should have been clear then that the feds dont care or need any of these bills or acts to do this crap.