Minecraft to go Dark on the 18th.

Morag

@notch Markus Persson
"Decided. We'll silently take down minecraft.net and mojang.com on the 18th in protest of SOPA."

gavmcg92

Hardly "silently" if he posts it on twitter. Other than that it is a great way to highlight a potentially dangerous decision. However I think Notch should also look into ACTA which is a similar agreement that is being forced through the European parliament.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=citzRjwk-sQ

jujumushu

You mean I'll have to play SSP? What the ****?!!
**** you Notch you bastard.
Protest SOPA by pissing off your millions of consumers you absolute scourge >.<

jay-me

laura-can wrote: »

You mean I'll have to play SSP? What the ****?!!
**** you Notch you bastard.
Protest SOPA by pissing off your millions of consumers you absolute scourge >.<

More like making his millions of consumers aware of this scourge that will affect them if it is passed!

jujumushu

Hahaahaaa I'm not even reading your post I'm just being distracted by your name!

Jay-you....Jay-me...
Lionel Richie FTW :P

Morag

/facepalm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhwuXNv8fJM

jay-me

gavmcg92 wrote: »

Hardly "silently" if he posts it on twitter. Other than that it is a great way to highlight a potentially dangerous decision. However I think Notch should also look into ACTA which is a similar agreement that is being forced through the European parliament.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=citzRjwk-sQ

Hadn't even heard of this 0_o Motha Truckers!!!
But never fear, the good ol fighting Irish will be out in force lying on sleeping bags outside the central bank to let the government and powers that be know where we stand on this outrage! :rolleyes:

gavmcg92

jay-me wrote: »

Hadn't even heard of this 0_o Motha Truckers!!!
But never fear, the good ol fighting Irish will be out in force lying on sleeping bags outside the central bank to let the government and powers that be know where we stand on this outrage! :rolleyes:

and this is where this gem of an article makes an appearance. London and Dublin join forces to show where we stand on this issue. Governments here and in London have rejected suggestions on regulating the web. Finally they are standing up for us on a European issue.

Irish government rejects suggestions on regulating the web


THE IRISH GOVERNMENT has said that it would not support any international agreement on regulation of the internet.
Speaking from a major international internet conference in London, Minister of State for European Affairs Lucinda Creighton said that the Government would rather see existing structures used to ‘peer pressure’ countries into best practice on the web.
“There seems to be a lot of reluctance towards the idea of an international convention or treaty on internet regulation and the Irish government shares that reluctance,” Creighton told TheJournal.ie.
“It would take a long time to work out, and people are already coming from a huge range of views on the whole issue of regulation.
“Instead existing organisations like the EU could use ‘peer pressure’ to encourage countries to follow certain norms and regulations.
Creighton’s views echoed those of UK foreign secretary William Hague, who earlier today told the London Conference on Cyberspace that the internet must not be ‘stifled by government control or censorship’.
Hague rejected the idea of any government policing of the web, saying: “Nothing would be more fatal or self-defeating than the heavy hand of State control on the internet’.
His comments were echoed by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales who told the conference that the best thing governments could do for the internet is stay out of it.
Hague said that an international agreement about behaviour in cyberspace should be pursued ‘with the same intensity as efforts to eradicate global poverty or tackle climate change’.
Delegates from 60 countries and 17 international organisations are meeting in London for the major two-day conference on the internet, focusing in particular on the twin issues of security and cyber crime, which began this morning.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was due to address the conference but pulled out on Monday evening when her mother became ill.

cherryghost

The Irish Government... pfft. Sure EMI is suing the Irish Government now so what do they know.

Tallon

Just log in before it goes down!

jujumushu

Tallon wrote: »

Just log in before it goes down!

and just stay there forever and ever and ever while conveniently the server doesn't crash? :P
troll
lol
olol

gavmcg92

Enderman wrote: »

The Irish Government... pfft. Sure EMI is suing the Irish Government now so what do they know.

Sure isn't it unconstitutional to effectively allow ISPs to censor what you get online in Ireland?

Record companies lose illegal download case

UPC is the third largest internet provider in Ireland, with 15% of the market.
The Irish Recording Music Association wanted a High Court injunction so that UPC would have to prevent the theft of their copyright by its subscribers.
But Mr Justice Peter Charleton ruled that there is no provision for the blocking, diverting or interrupting of internet communications intent on breaching copyright.
The injunctive relief was declined.
A spokesperson for Eircom has said the internet service provider will be considering its position in light of today's ruling.
Eircom has a voluntary agreement to provide record companies with the IP addresses of customers involved in file sharing.
It also operates a 'three strikes and you're out' rule, so if customers are caught illegally sharing files online, more than three times, they will be disconnected for a year.

UPC has said it does not condone piracy, but today's ruling supports the principal that internet service providers are not liable for the actions of their customers.
Meanwhile, Minister for Communications Eamon Ryan intends to invite representatives from the music industry and internet service providers into his Department to formulate an agreed approach on peer-to-peer filesharing.

They can sue all they want... the law of the land is the law of the land, putting it bluntly.

Solitaire

So were laws pertaining to debt... then rich people fell into debt and suddenly it was "TROLOLO! LAW?! WHAT LAW?!? I STRONG, U WEAK, U NOW ALL PAY MY DEBTS 4 ME!! U JELLY?!?!"

Meanwhile the US are trying to pass yet more acts that utterly contravene (and urinate on from a great height) their own Constitution. Right to free what again?

gavmcg92

Solitaire wrote: »

So were laws pertaining to debt... then rich people fell into debt and suddenly it was "TROLOLO! LAW?! WHAT LAW?!? I STRONG, U WEAK, U NOW ALL PAY MY DEBTS 4 ME!! U JELLY?!?!"

Meanwhile the US are trying to pass yet more acts that utterly contravene (and urinate on from a great height) their own Constitution. Right to free what again?

I wish I could record the voice in my head that read the text in bold and play it back over and over again
:D:D

Solitaire

I suspect it would have sounded a little like Eduard Khil... :pac:

jujumushu

Solitaire wrote: »

I suspect it would have sounded a little like a cave man... :pac:

FYP

jay-me

Solitaire wrote: »

Meanwhile the US are trying to pass yet more acts that utterly contravene (and urinate on from a great height) their own Constitution. Right to free what again?

http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/01/obama-administration-comes-out-against-sopa-pipa.php

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/under-voter-pressure-members-of-congress-backpedal-on-sopa.ars

So far so good! So long as these scumbags need re-electing they will bow to their voters! Here's hoping they will abolish this heinous act before it gets put through!

Tallon

laura-can wrote: »

and just stay there forever and ever and ever while conveniently the server doesn't crash? :P
troll
lol
olol

Doesn't matter if the server crashes, we don't need Minecraft.net to restart it!

Solitaire

Yeah but AFAIK even if the clients are logged into Mojang before it goes down, if the server isn't cracked it'll still bounce any client who tries to reconnect while Mojang is down!

Tallon

No, shouldn't do. As long as your client is still connected

jujumushu

Yeah but when I get kicked from a server because of crashing I usually have to restart my client or else I get outdated server errors... seems to be quite common too

Indubitable

after getting the server error I usually wait for about 20-30 seconds on the main menu then try again. Works about 40% of the time on first try.

Solitaire

Really shouldn't work like that on an uncracked server, vanilla server code makes uncracked servers look up the verification server before allowing a client to complete a connection attempt. No Minecraft.net, no server access.

Xenon560

Besides, I'm wouldn't connect at like 11pm today and leave it running over night

jujumushu

Indubitable wrote: »

wait for about 20-30 seconds

...
wait?
for minecraft?
but... like... what would I do for those 20-30 seconds?! :O

gavmcg92

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Mojang taking googles lead and not taking part in a full scale black out. Shame really!

Indubitable

gavmcg92 wrote: »

Mojang taking googles lead and not taking part in a full scale black out. Shame really!

Well at least they participated in the first place. Disappointed in youtube though, surely they would be amongst the worst affected if SOPA and PIPA were passed?

gavmcg92

Indubitable wrote: »

Well at least they participated in the first place. Disappointed in youtube though, surely they would be amongst the worst affected if SOPA and PIPA were passed?

Agreed. I can make an exception for Mojang but I was bitterly disappointed in Google. Although the change or lack of the iconic Google logo was a stark reminder of the potentially detrimental effect of this act it was still far from as effective as Wikipedia's approach of a complete blackout.

Unfortunately I was too late to get an image of Broadsheet.ie's page but the text was the most appropriate aspect of their protest which I have an image of below.

EDIT : Found this... very catchy :P
http://cristgaming.com/pirate.swf



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