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Stop Ireland's SOPA

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  • #2
    drunkmonkey
    Registered Users Posts: 28,070 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    Let Anonymous loose on the revenue website for a few hours and they won't be long about giving up on the idea.


  • #3
    omerin
    Registered Users Posts: 1,460 ✭✭✭omerin


    An end to Facebook, so there is an upside


  • #4
    deckybarr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 87 ✭✭deckybarr


    You can email him at sean.sherlock@oir.ie


  • #5
    deckybarr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 87 ✭✭deckybarr


    Could anybody who is on facebook, twitter, etc get the message out. Could anybody please get the message to the media such as television and radio as well.


  • #6
    anishboi
    Registered Users Posts: 206 ✭✭anishboi


    SOPA will mean an end to all of your free music downloads, torrents etc. that all of your iPods are filled with. It mustn't go through


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  • #7
    jcf
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,081 ✭✭✭jcf


    What would SOPA mean for newsgroups ? most of these use heavy encryption,
    so it's hard to prove copyright infringement ...


  • #8
    Mycroft H
    Registered Users Posts: 9,316 ✭✭✭Mycroft H


    It is not SOPA, please get your facts straight.


  • #9
    Galen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 664 ✭✭✭Galen


    So its done. this morning ACTA's been signed by 22 of the 27 EU member states in Japan. And yes, Ireland is one of them. https://twitter.com/#!/donal_cahalane/status/162488589941358592


  • #10
    jcf
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,081 ✭✭✭jcf


    BX 19 wrote: »
    It is not SOPA, please get your facts straight.

    what ?


  • #11
    anishboi
    Registered Users Posts: 206 ✭✭anishboi


    That's it. Acta is signed :mad::mad::mad:


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  • #12
    Galen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 664 ✭✭✭Galen


    I'm disgusted with Kenny and the rest of that sorry excuse for government that we now have. What makes it worse is that I voted for them in the misguided assumption that nothing could be worse than the last lot. :-(


  • #13
    the whole year inn
    Registered Users Posts: 7,077 ✭✭✭the whole year inn


    what is going on?


  • #14
    Galen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 664 ✭✭✭Galen


    the whole year inn wrote: »
    what is going on?
    Irish government signed us up to this pile of crap today http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Counterfeiting_Trade_Agreement


  • #15
    jcf
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,081 ✭✭✭jcf


    But will this affect the likes of newsgroup sites ? where all traffic is heavily encrypted anyway ?


  • #16
    RangeR
    Registered Users Posts: 7,265 ✭✭✭RangeR


    jcf wrote: »
    But will this affect the likes of newsgroup sites ? where all traffic is heavily encrypted anyway ?

    If it's on the internet, it's affected. Encryption is irrelevant. The burden of prove is on the defendant, not the prosecutor.

    Also, don't be such a sponger of copyright material.


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