Sopa & pipa

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Next...physical counterfeit downloads.

[b]The Pirate Bay Offers Downloads of Physical Objects]/b]


By Angela Moscaritolo
January 25, 2012 10:14am EST

If The Pirate Bay has its way, users in the future will be able to get any physical item they want — such as car parts, shoes or even their lunch — by simply clicking their computer's print button.

The controversial Swedish file-sharing Web site this week began offering a new category of downloads called "physibles," or data files that deliver real, physical objects to anyone with a 3D printer. The site currently has a dozen physibles available for download, including a 3-dimensional model of a 1970 Chevelle Hot Rod, a whistle and a "tabletop wargaming robot model".

"We believe that the next step in copying will be made from digital form into physical form," a blog post at The Pirate Bay states. "We believe that in the nearby future you will print your spare sparts for your vehicles. You will download your sneakers within 20 years."

The site said it was considering temporarily renaming itself "The Product Bay," but added "we had no graphical artist around to make a logo. In the future, we'll download one."

3D printing is still in its infancy, though there has been an explosion in the variety and use of such devices, largely spearheaded by startups and DIYers, with some big companies like HP starting to get involved. 3D printers can be used to build physical objects from scratch—or rather, from a 3D file—out of a variety of materials, including plastic, metal, ceramic, or glass and even and even foodstuffs like cheese, icing, and chocolate. The material is laid down, layer by layer, to form the physical item.

HP, in partnership with Stratasys, has introduced color and monochrome Designjet 3D printers priced at approximately $17,500. The past couple of years have also seen the appearance of more affordable 3D printers, such as the MakerBot Replicator, which retails for $1,749 and can make shower curtains, rings, bath plugs, door knobs and more.

Meanwhile, The Pirate Bay, which was founded in 2003 and boasts 32 million users, is known as one of the largest enablers of illegal downloading in the world. The site and its creators have faced a myriad of legal troubles over the years. Earlier this month, a Dutch court ordered two Internet service providers in the Netherlands block customers from accessing the file-sharing site.

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You think SOPA and PIPA are draconian...

Hawaii's proposed online tracking law comes under fire from ISPs, civil libertarians -- Engadget

There may be some trouble brewing in paradise, thanks to a seemingly draconian law currently under consideration in Hawaii's state legislature. If passed, H.B. 2288 would require all ISPs within the state to track and store information on their customers, including details on every website they visit, as well as their own names and addresses. The measure, introduced on Friday, also calls for this information to be recorded on each customer's digital file and stored for a full two years. Perhaps most troubling is the fact that the bill includes virtually no restrictions on how ISPs can use (read: "sell") this information, nor does it specify whether law enforcement authorities would need a court order to obtain a user's dossier from an ISP. And, because it applies to any firm that "provides access to the Internet," the law could conceivably be expanded to include not just service providers, but internet cafes, hotels or other businesses.

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thought this might give some insights about intellectual property

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6wa9t5yPls]An Economist's Look at Intellectual Property Law - YouTube[/ame]

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UK web surfers have caught a grim glimpse of the future with Internet users being threatened with 10 years in jail for “illegal downloading” after a prominent music file-sharing site was shut down shortly after Britain signed the notorious ACTA bill.

It is the first time such a move has been made against Internet users in the UK. The British government introduced regulations in 2009 enabling Internet providers to track users who downloaded illegal content from the web and disable their connection if warning letters had no effect. But signing the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) has brought the conflict to a whole new level.

In Europe, people are taking to the streets in protest at the contradictory Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, with some countries refusing to sign it.

After hackers from the activist group Anonymous attacked practically all US government websites in retaliation, the authorities are now considering adopting their own home-grown anti-counterfeiting laws like PIPA (Protect Intellectual Property Act) / SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act).

In February, Britain's organized crime police shut down RnBxclusive.com, a prominent music file-sharing website with about 250,000 subscribers on Facebook alone and up to 70,000 visitors per day.

In fact, the British police effectively took on the role of personal enforcer to the recording industry, standing guard to protect corporate profits. However sad it might be for many, this is a part of a legal game between copyright owners and the police on the one hand, and defenders of the free Internet on the other.

Normally, the Serious Organized Crime Agency (SOCA) tackles crimes “that affect the UK and its citizens.” Now, it seems that downloading content from a file-sharing website has been put on a par with “Class A drugs, people smuggling and human trafficking, major gun crime, fraud and money laundering.”

The practices of SOCA, while enforcing its crackdown on “illegal downloading,” raises even more questions.

ACTA in UK: 10 years in jail for 'illegal downloads' — RT

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Mark your calendars at July 12. MPAA and RIAA are collaborating with ISP's against file sharing

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Pirate Bay is now into Magnet links instead of *******s. How will this circumvent the new laws?

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Well the new laws are pretty vague especially with the "links" definition

Heck, seeing how ACTA is being pushed everywhere...

Normally, they'll just sniff the lines using IP filters and mail you warnings

Thus, more people are going encrypted p2p

The problem is, ISP's are now paid to use snooping(eavesdropping and surveillance) and encryption cracking

Network technicians are worried because it violates the 4th amendment

What's scarier is that it may also affect encrypted business transactions...

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Pirate Bay is now into Magnet links instead of *******s. How will this circumvent the new laws?

Magnet links are a way to reference to a resource which doesn't require hosting any ******* files on the server.

Magnet URI wik

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And speaking of internet censorship, guess which News Outlet just got banned in Youtube.

linkage

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And speaking of internet censorship, guess which News Outlet just got banned in Youtube.

linkage

Err...gumagana naman yung channel page.

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Got suspended 9 hours ago ^^

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Ibig sabihin ba nito hindi na ako makakapanuod by a streaming ng the walking dead, house md, royal pains, fringe at pretty little liars?

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well, they did hit ********** which is one of the platforms for streaming(script)

mahigpit sila sa EU when it comes to downloads. Prices pa lang ng albums inflated na *_*

oh well, back to the stereo mix recording trick :D

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somehow i support any bill similar to this if they truly implement it.

It's like apple IOS vs. IOS jailbreak analogy. with IOS Jailbreak, you are free to download what you want, hacked games etc. you can modify apple's ios. but so far, ano ba ang nangyayari sa buhay mo, you have this limitless applications, music, video media. are you productive or are you as just confused as ever with so many things to do, which are in any way helping you ba to be a contributing member of society.

the thing is nature, and governments and society have one thing in common: they need contributing entities that can somehow improve or change or inspire lives/ideas.

the trend right now is limitless downloads as can be comparable to gluttony is to food , or greed is to hoarding money. it's like an addiction thing that can turn you into a parasite. and therefore, needs to be disposed/taken down. I have studied the patterns of natural disasters and tignan nyo mabuti, kung sino pa yun mga unfortunate sila din ang pinaparasuhan ng nature in terms of floods/genocide/tornadoes. kasi nga masyado pakabig tapos reklamador.

disturbing ang nangyayari sa internet scene ngaun. it's the new frontier that needs to be controlled.

right now, i buy apps from Apple stores and I don't jailbreak. of course, I now have limited resources only dictated by how much money I have. pero life has a purpose now, one step at a time, bili ako ng ganito, i maximize it, then bili ulit sa susunod. unlike now, people like to own everything but can't even find / squeeze time to enjoy all those things in a day.


dun sa mga mahilig mag-download, siguro sa ngaun okey lang basta delete it afterwards, kumbaga panandalian entertainment lang. don't buy hard drives and make a collection out of it. kasi stolen yan eh, if you keep it, may balik yan.

if indeed being tech savvy can make you rich by owning/bypassing all those copyrights, then are you rich now? I doubt.

the rich spend/pays for what is due. and that's why they become richer, bec. they respect the laws of nature: you want something big, then you must give up big also. no shortcuts

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May reason bakit nangyari yan. Gahaman ang music/movie industry.

Remember CD warehouse dati na mahal mga cd. Dami nagcocollect nyan sasabihin wag daw gagamit sa player ng cd-r pangit daw. Yung mga collectors titingnan pa talaga yung ilalim ng cd kung may gasgas with matching hihipanin pa pag may alikabok. Nagsimula malugi cd warehouse nung 1996-1998.

Dati naalala ko meron ako single ni lauryn hill. Magkano ba bili ko dati nun. Pero ganda ng packaging....Paperish na cardboard.

Before nakabili din ako ilang beses ng mga pirated pero ngayon hindi na.

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i think sopa bill is not only for the plight of music/movie recording industry.

it's addressing the future problem of the future generation and us.

matindi ang flow ng information ngaun. Govt. in the Middle East are falling like dominos bec. somehow the ordinary citizens got a hold of Facebook and decided, hey why don't we overthrow our long-time rulers and dictators bec. facebook is so cool and so free. and as a result, eto ang gasolina natin ngaun breaching P60

I believe in the right timing of dissemination of information. like for example, youngster need not to be exposed that early in **** or anarchist propaganda. subprime crisis and packaging of mortgaged securities happened bec. somehow the flow of information has been easily conveyed sa mga people involved, and therefore nag-panic.

in 1929, stock market fell, then 10 years of depression, then the apocalyptic WWII happened, after that a period of peace and rebuilding of wealth

then in the 79 nagsimula na naman ang mga financial crisis, then the next financial crisis in 89. so bale a decade of interval ng bad world economy. and then naging 1997 asian financial crisis that lasted until 2001, and then in 2008, global financial meltdown. now, we are yet on the midst of another financial crisis that will start in Europe and that is only just 3 years since the last, and barely pa naka-recover sa 2008 crisis.

this is what's disturbing, paliit ng paliit ng interval ng global crises. if this keeps on, and financial crisis happens in an interval of month na lang (compared noon na 50 years, then decades, then 5 years, then 3 year) and God Forbid, that will lead to war.

the culprit: the internet. everybody feels being marginalized and treated unfairly coz others seem or look like having a grand time. and as a result, mas matindi ang social indifference and distrust even though the internet's goal is the proper distribution ng information. wala eh, hindi pa ripe ang ibang tao to read confidential info na. there is deep meaning to the term: information is on a need to know basis - kasi dapat yun nabibigyan ng information, morally and socially capable of receiving such info.

every bubble, every pyramid, every rebuilding/dream is being tested, na akala nila is truth.


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take for example, the henchmen of Gringo Honasan and yun mga mahilig mag-coup nun araw, okey nun araw adventurist sila sige lang, kahit i-risk nila ang buong Pilipinas sa gulo kasi alam nila tama sila.

ngaun, tanungin mo isa-isa yan mga yan, i doubt if they will even support their ideals when they were younger. kasi ngaun kahit papano may pamilya na sila, may livelihood na sila and hindi na sila ganun kabata, mas mahina na ang katawan nila.
kumbaga reality set in, there is a reason why mabagal ang wheels of change bec. abrupt change is dangerous.

and yan ang internet, delikado kasi may access ang mga kabataan na hindi gaano naintindihan ang laro ng buhay and always impatient na binasa lang nila ganito eh dapat ganun. pero hindi talaga ganun eh, we are all connected you and I. if one is fast and strong and productive, we can only advance at the same pace as other who are slow and weak and lazy. and therefore, that is balance.

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you've seen SOPA, PIPA and ACTA...

now meet CISPA

Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
-Benjamin Franklin

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Meanwhile, CISPA bill just got passed in congress

Internet no longer has privacy...

unless...