SOPA and DNS Change

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I'm about out for the day, but it should be no shock that I think SOPA is a giant crock of idiotic bullshit. It turns out GoDaddy supports this, so I may join the party to switch to a new DNS provider.

 

The shameful clickbait sex ads were bad enough, but the ass licking support of such a counter-logical act of Gov't is the last straw. Considering I recently renewed, this is kind of a PITA, but not as much as the blatant idiocy they support.

 

Reddit Dood:

"I just finished writing GoDaddy a letter stating why I'm moving my small businesses 51 domains away from them, as well as my personal domains," wrote redditor selfprodigy on Thursday morning. He proposed that December 29 be declared "move your domain day," with GoDaddy customers switching to competing registrars. The post has accumulated more than 1,500 comments, most of them supporting the idea.

 

Meanwhile, you can find this site by direct IP:

66.45.228.160:

[nick]

Victoire!

 

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/12/victory-boycott-forces-godaddy-to-drop-its-support-for-sopa.ars

 

They're just shit eaters in the end, though.

Edited December 23, 2011 by nick

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Truth to that. What a pissy way to cave to a shitty policy. 2 other domains are up for renewal soon, still likely to move them off their service. Kinda broke this week. :frl:

[h0m3r]

reddit is so good

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Hyper truth. Saving my catchup browsing for tomorrow @ work, since I know it will be a :ghost: town.

 

Me: "Fuckin Shit, For Real!" :lol: = Reddit browsing

[h0m3r]

Godaddy seems to have gotten raped by their SOPA alliance. Serves them right

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They have, but it appears to be in the minimalist means possible. Thursday may still be my transition day.

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Be ready for some possible downtime, as I rolled all the domains over this morning.

 

I went with Namecheap, because they had a very detailed guide for rolling the domains over. I rolled all 3 over for less than $25 bucks. Godaddy was raping people with private registrations @ $9.99. NC is like $2 bucks each normally, but it's free with rollover.

 

Whoever you opt to go with, be sure to rock the coupon codes! Info @ Reddit thread that started the party.

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Just got email that the domain transfer was completed. If that's the case, word to the lack of downtime. I was ready for delays similar to changing web hosts and nameservers.

 

:yar: lack of hassle. Thank that guide, since you have a few things to do if you want to prevent domain transfer issues.

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Bump as today is SOPA / PIPA internet blackout day for some major sites. Since I hardly consider this site a staple of the internet, I didn't feel closing up shop for the day would accomplish anything. That being said, do continue to stay vigilant to legislation written by old corporations, to make profit while completely smashing the capacity for free speech and innovation.

 

I'll be filled with random info until my time on this world has passed. Please don't roll over for idiocy. :ninjawub:

[Philip]

Well the point was to raise awareness; I don't think you need to shut down a site to raise awareness. I think this was too extreme. The wikipedia message stated that the interbutt as we know it with free knowledge could change. I wouldn't mind paying a site to do searches, I wouldn't mind paying a fee like with sky, on the proviso that the information was factual; wikipedia isn't always factual.

 

Controlling the interbutt is going to be hard work regardless of how it's done. Having written for a company that basically makes its money through scamming, I can see that certain online privacy and copyright acts would be great. This whole thing seems like it's trying to achieve far too much at once. I did actually waste my time reading some of the legal crap that had been written to do with it; it's very wishy washy; moreover it's a complete waste of the tax payers money--someone had to pay a lawyer to write that... Google doesn't always play nice, I've had that myself when dealing with them, furthermore, I think they were recently fined 500 million dollars. However, it seems like anyone going against the government will get huge praise. Google are a good company, yes, but my opinion of them isn't all good, and I would love to see some other companies competing with them.

 

There's not even such a thing as international copyright law. I think that should change and the American government should try to expand on copyright law like that, rather than invent something which will shove pine cones in peoples arses. I've said from day one that I don't think anything will really happen. I'm convinced of that, but only time will tell. I am excited to see how the internet would be. I don't think it's all doom and gloom, I think new ideas will show themselves and things could still be pretty good.

Edited January 19, 2012 by Philip

[Pea]

I think it was just a silly way to try and "combat piracy." I will never agree with holding a site responsible for what other users put on it, which is where those bills were going. "One of your users put something copyrighted on your site, now you are fined X amount of money." So in that sense it would force sites to censor their users, forums would have to have admin that could sit and review every single post... which is completely unfeasible and therefore they'd probably shut down or charge a high premium to be able to chat on them. You might as well go to the local food court at the mall and start telling people they can't talk to each other. It would have really restricted the flow of ideas and knowledge, which is ridiculous. If they want to combat piracy then they should combat that, those bills were like bringing a nuke to a knife fight. Also, I am pretty sure the U.S. told some other country like Egypt or whatever that they shouldn't censor their internet and then those bills come up and it's like, "Uuuuhhh?" o_O Lol.

[Philip]

I agree in the sense that a legitimate site owner cannot always control what is put on their site, but Google have the power to kill adsense accounts of companies promoting piracy. Also, what happens when someone doesn't take responsibility for what is on their site, and someone posts child porn? This can be seen as showing a blind eye to it all. For these reasons it's difficult to have a black and white answer to the problem.

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From a really broad scope, I see all this effort to control the internet info as the next drug war. A complex, legal loophole ridden ghost hunt, where massive profits can be obtained from 'getting the bad guys who make things available'. To echo this sentiment, see how the recent computer crime prosecutions have been more extreme then some of the most nefarious crimes one can commit. 'Bad' stuff is always going to be available, and the more you chase it into a system bound in regulations and stipulations, the more underground / criminal activity you are going to create.

 

If you think botnet infections and the like are bad now, wait until a SOPA / PIPA infrastructure gets rolled out. At that point you are going to be damn hard pressed to find viable information on any sort of removal, as it would have either been 'taken down' for offensive content, or hidden behind some paywalled garbage, likely by the same people who run that network.

 

What makes me more curious, is when did the person who obtains and uses information for ill intent, stop being responsible? Just because something is available that could be used for nefarious means, doesn't mean that's why the publisher / site owner made it available. Once again, see the rootkit cleanup blurb above. I feel that is a small example of the adverse effect people would see.

 

I also chuckle at how the States were blasting other nations for online censorship, while totally working on the same thing. Public opinion and non-profit research would also be hit tremendously from this censorship. Considering this legislation is written by the old content and major corporations, you can fully be assured they will take down any critical information about their product lines or medications.

 

As for Copyright? I feel it is completely killing competition in the States between companies. There is a slow crawl in innovation, because the big players are so occupied buying patent rights to basic functionality. See Apple and IBM for this. Microsoft is no slouch in this department, as they collect royalties on 70% of all Android smart phones, due to some patent on functionality. There is a line between your custom features and functionality, as opposed to logical processes. This line has far been crossed and has made the market relatively stagnant from a software / UI standpoint.

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Bump and re-post from in(security) thread.

CISPA is back for another attempt. If we lived in a rational society, actually run for the people, all the prior shootdowns for SOPA / CISPA / PROTECT IP / H.R. 3261 would have put this to an end and never for revival or renewal

How many times must people and companies join to shoot this down, just because they changed the name or acronym? Obviously no one besides corporate interest groups, want this trash.

SOPA @ Wikipedia. Quite interesting notes to be found in the Goals section.
We are talking about CISPA 3.0