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I haven't actually read what this bill says, but i guess it will affect the majority of LEB users in the same way as DMCA affects them - i.e. not at all.
This only affects american based companys, If this bill goes through then I think having VPS Locations in USA would be a bad Idea.
And in regards to LEB, Doesn't this make the holder of the website responsible for all content users generate so I think the LEA will not have any problems. Considering the majority here are mature and the discussions that take place here are just revolved around Offers,Tutorials,Help,General Discussion.
I have not been here long but I have not seen any spammers so far.
http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/116891/will-stack-overflow-boycott-godaddy-because-of-their-support-for-sopa oups...
LEA won't have any problems anyway because as far as i know he's Australian so he can just ignore SOPA.
Sure, LEA can Ignore it.
However the provider cannot.
IP Location: United States - Illinois - Chicago - Hosting Services Inc
^^ LEB
The registrar of lowendbox.com, New Dream Network, LLC, is also in the United States & can't ignore it also.
Fortunately LEB is not a warez site, there are no mp3s and movies for download here, so the site should be OK.
You may want to review the possible law. LEA talks about some providers who use hacked copies of WHMCS, CPanel, and other softwares. He would still be at fault for linking to them.
Yup, you're new.
Many providers here have commented that offers made here encourage abusers such as spammers to sign up with their service. I know I've discovered a couple dozen this year and reported them as well.
And heck, some providers are known spammers as well.
You guys and gals are cancelling your Mastercards and Visa too, right?
http://www.digitaltrends.com/opinion/the-439-organizations-sopa-opponents-should-worry-about/
In case anyone else wants to review what's being talking about:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act
Buyvms business will be largely crushed un less they pull out of san jose to canada. Most of buyvms clients are asian and use buyvm as a way to escape censorship not for more of it! It will affect everyone in every country don't be fooled.
SOPA - Smelly old people's association.
If SOPA comes into action there are going to be global riots, rightly so.
Their own censorship from the GFW. The biggest VPN usage for our Chinese clients are things like Hulu, Youtube, Facebook, etc. Though granted, yes, this is something we'll need to plan for.
@Aldryic ofcourse they do but I'm sure they'll crackdown on ips which can view hulu next. Hopefully canada won't follow suit.
I doubt SOPA lives to get out of comity.
I believe it will come into action regardless how harmful/hated/useless, also whoever behind it might be giving an impression that they don't know that almost everything new was successfully pirated.
Recently a bank in America thought exactly the same thing. They found out right quick how we all felt about their crap also.
I understand what they are trying to do and why they are trying to do it. They are just going about it all wrong. Hate to break to them but if they think something up to stop it, then someone someplace else is going to think something else up to get around it. It will not matter if it is against the law or not.
Hate to play the heavy yet one more time but how well did it go for the Occupy folks?
If SOPA hits and is even remotely successful in causing as much damage as speculated, I foresee a 2nd "underground" internet being formed...
I think we're up to 5th or 6th by now.
There's only 1 existing internet that I know of...
Current internet is the 2nd one.
ArpNet (Or whatever it was called) was the first.
Then we have Internet 2: http://www.internet2.edu/
If you're talking about underground internet, then you probably should throw in the Tor network.
Then of course you have Al Gore's Internet. You know? The one that exists in his mind.
internet2, arpa, sprintlink/government private segmented network, tor, freenet, darknet, probably a few more, i2p?
I'd actually like to see SOPA go through. I'd like to see it piss off a lot of people, because then people may actually band together and make some changes to fix our terrible government. Probably unlikely to happen, but since us Americans only like to react to a problem once it starts to really effect us, it might just work...
Maybe I should have said existing public internet, there's still only 1 that I know of.
There are days I can't tell whether you're genuinely trying to be funny, or are just uneducated on key topics;
SOPA covers IRC too? then I guess SOPA will eat LEBs whole