Protect IP Act (End Of Warez As We Know it ?)

[72impala]

I do not know if this has been discussed here before....



Bad news for folks who frequent illegal file sharing and torrent sites to for their entertainment purposes. A recently proposed bill named the Protect IP Act (Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property), the law will remove websites that dish out pirated content from the internet?s address books, making them hard to find by their domain name. The law would also force search engines to stop listing these infringing sites in their indexes.
The Protect IP Act would also allow copyright holders to apply for court orders to get sites blocked or de-listed. In addition to shutting down easy access to those websites, payment firms and ad networks could also be told to stop servicing such sites. Wow, it looks like the US government is really interested in quashing piracy in the country. However, this amount of censorship is not going to sit well with a lot of folks that who don?t believe that the government should be deciding what they can or can?t view online.
But no matter what the government does, people are going to find another way to access pirated content. People are always looking forward to get their hands on the ?forbidden fruit?. With recent reports suggesting that alternative services for movies like Netflix leading to the reduction of torrent downloads, maybe that?s the right step to take instead of blocking people from accessing it ? give them an alternative.


http://www.ubergizmo.com/2011/05/web...to-be-blocked/

SMH...

Anyone have any outlook on this?

72impala Reviewed by 72impala on 17th May 2011. Protect IP Act (End Of Warez As We Know it ?) I do not know if this has been discussed here before.... http://cdn2.ubergizmo.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/23-Protect-IP-Act.jpg Bad news for folks who frequent illegal file sharing and torrent sites to for their entertainment purposes. A recently proposed bill named the Protect IP Act (Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property), the law will remove websites that dish out pirated content from the internet?s address books, making Rating: 5

[SuicidalMedia]

Good news, warez has gone to money industry anyway.

[pakman]

its not got anything to do with warez going to money etc...its simply a matter of mine and yours` fundamental rights

[mystaku]

[Sp32]

Good, I download pirated material but I generally see it being a bad thing. Why shouldn't developers get all the money they should earn.

Anything profitable will be monetized; common sense.

[Cory]

Fact is, since the COICA failed last year, This is also likely to fail.

Google won the court case in filtering, but they filtered it anyway.

We'll wait and see.

[Jesse]

Every other day something questions the end of warez...

[doni]

To be honest it's very hard almost impossible that the day will come that warez will end.

There are many reasons why mostly because every side wins if that was not true sharing warez wouldn't exist let's take two examples some dude at microsoft would invent something better than adding a key in a application to make it full from trial or some dude that is working in movies or multimedia would invent a non recordable/readable disk which they wont ever because what we call warez they call advertising.

honestly the information we have on internet right now and in a very far future can't ever be shutdown as long as computers exist that have the power to COPY and PASTE.

It's all bullshit.

Even if google, yahoo, bing, get removed from internet which is impossible for the moment we will still have social network sites or friends from real life that will tell us about interesting sites such as KWWHunction, wbb, warezscene, linkplz, mechoddl, etc...

About 6 years ago i didn't even know about sites like phazeddl and katz but some friends told me about it and i didn't stop visiting since then.

[Shahrukh]

Really Agree With you mate!

[Bob ho]

Dam but who dosn't download warez?