ANNOUNCEMENT: SOPA, PIPA, MEGAUPLOAD, AND THE FUTURE OF THE FORUMS

[AceofWind]

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FUCK THEM !!! Now they closed SNESORAMA !!!

Dammit, they just closed the site that is the main archieve for old platformer games. This is like they just trow a bomb at Vatican, Byzantium, Edinburge, and burned all the history book of gaming.

I usually go to emuparadise and nitroroms for PSX roms and DGemu for smaller games anyway.

BTW, megaupload's owner managed to make bail but the conditions of his bail bans him from the internet.

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[Kusanagi]

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I usually go to emuparadise and nitroroms for PSX roms and DGemu for smaller games anyway.

BTW, megaupload's owner managed to make bail but the conditions of his bail bans him from the internet.

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mother fucking...........

OI, IDIOTS IN CHARGE. NORMAL PROCEDURES DO NOT FUCKING WORK HERE.
Not that I think he should get off scot-free, but this..... this is fucking ridiculous. I would have rather stayed in jail than have to be subject to this amount of restriction.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have some..... cleaning... to do.

 

[Daemon McRae]

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Ladies and gentlemen,

There is a "new" threat that has arisen, I don't know the details in whether or not it's from the same guys that came up with SOPA/PIPA, but it's basically identical with their internet control. It's called the ""Trans Pacific Partnership", or TPP in short. This (TPP) has already existed for a very long time but the internet wasn't included. Here's what's new:

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For those that really don't want to read the really long post, here's a few things you could be concerned about (Taken from the article above):



• Subject cyber security and data privacy to international control;

• Allow foreign phone companies to charge fees for "international" Internet traffic, perhaps even on a "per-click" basis for certain Web destinations, with the goal of generating revenue for state-owned phone companies and government treasuries;

• Impose unprecedented economic regulations such as mandates for rates, terms and conditions for currently unregulated traffic-swapping agreements known as "peering."

• Establish for the first time ITU dominion over important functions of multi-stakeholder Internet governance entities such as the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the nonprofit entity that coordinates the .com and .org Web addresses of the world;

• Subsume under intergovernmental control many functions of the Internet Engineering Task Force, the Internet Society and other multi-stakeholder groups that establish the engineering and technical standards that allow the Internet to work;

• Regulate international mobile roaming rates and practices.



So there you have it. If you didn't read the article but got interested after reading the points I copied, maybe you should give it a go anyway. It's basically a really good explanation of what this means.


I don't know what loopholes the TPP will have to go through, but as I read it, it's progressed quite far already in that "On Feb. 27, a diplomatic process will begin in Geneva that could result in a new treaty giving the United Nations unprecedented powers over the Internet."

I have no clue how long that process will take, but I assume they're in a hurry to make big cash and play big brother.

My apologies for the long post.




TL;DR: TPP is SOPA/PIPA/ACTA's (Even if EU isn't involved) big brother.

Dude. This:

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[leslieboy]

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Same things happens in Europe..I think its an organizaton want to control the whole internet! The following is only my thoughts, but if this happens(i hope not) maybe this is the answer
Why now? Why so hurry, they made 4-5 attacks against the internet with new and new names with internet law!

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Because any, or some government or political peoples knows something, thats maybe really finish off the Earth in 2012. They know, if the internet is out of their control, peoples will find out what is coming, before "attacks" the earth. They sacred, if this happens, the peoples going mad, crazy, and they block, or prevent the escape from this(survivors, that was choosed..by money:-/ ).
Why(again) They cant, or better say they dont want to save everybody, only peoples they want to see in the "new" world.
Stupid? Maybe, but no, this is not the 2012 movie. I better say UFOs, than other geo things. I just see some strange things: Everything began, when the US NASA said, they lost a special prototype spaceship, and some guys uploaded pictures about the ship on the internet that showed in a military base(after lost). Also strange, the NASA stopped the space program, after they paid a billion dollar project to make spaceship travel to mars..Everything gone?..This is only some things(lot of there). Say me im stupid idiot, but if the government controls websites, they don't need to worry about any pictures, files, or peoples on the internet.
I say again, this is only thoughts about this strange "attacks"
Why the file hosting sites? Everybody only see this, bot nobody cares after what happens with people's blog, website! There is 4 website thats gone, and they talked about 2012 and secret plans by US government!

 

[hmoeller]

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Danish visitors to around 8,000 sites including Google and Facebook were informed that the sites were being blocked by the country’s High Tech Crime Unit due to them offering child pornography, a situation which persisted for several hours.

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High Tech Crime unit, yessir. The BEST of the BEST of the BEST, sir. Anyone feeling like playing

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again?

 

[BeeFCake]

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i think this is one load of bull sopa atac and all the bull other thing they should leave the internet alone it is purely free speech and no one should have the right to police the whole internet. this is just a play to distract the pulbic from the f'd up money situation that the world is in.

 

[AceofWind]

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They're going after Hotfile again.

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[Jack Mi Hoff]

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Son of a bitch! The internet is the only freeish place there is left and it seems every nation and politician is out to control it. I say vote all the bastards out! Heck I voted republican (before people start raging at me im actually a right leaning libertarian) and god damnit am I pissed that the repubs are the ones who introduced this load of scat! (apologies to those who enjoy scat) At least the elections are coming up soon I hope that puts the fear of god or whatever in them!

 

[DearSfan31]

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I think I speak for everybody when I say, the government is fucked up. Y must they go after the best thing to happen to the information trading world since the radio was invented?

 

[hmoeller]

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113% voters? God, Europe sucks so hard. You'd think the content industry would be better than putin's 140%. 113%... it's a shame. See, Mr. Lobby, this is what happens if you don't pay a few million $$ more.

If you find sarcasm in this post, you are NOT entitled to reuse it in any way except with written permission from me.

 

[omegaism]

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Megaupload might come back online.

 

[AceofWind]

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I'm probably a little late but Uploaded.to is no longer blocking the U.S.

 

[westnet]

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This is probably not related, but anyone who uses mediafire should start backing up their files immediately. They are coming down hard on anything remotely adult in nature. I got 10 strikes in under a minute for a simple .gif file and .pdf of a sex fanfiction. My account got terminated just like that.

I fear for people like eluku who use this service. I hope all the uploaders have backups or alternate file hosting services.

 

[AceofWind]

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Welp, fileserve stepped out of the game again. =\

And so has wupload.

 

[FallenAngelMen]

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Not sure if this was already posted, but the american convress is trying to pass on another bill called CISPA, I will link a site where you can sign a petition against CISPA and read what it exactly is.

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[Sojourner]

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This might be crying wolf, but it's an oddity I've noticed in the last hour or so.

MediaFire deleted links for the recent update to Toffi's Amazon Kara and Eluku's Fairy Fighting, citing ToS violations. These may be isolated incidents, but the fact that these are FREE games that are uploaded by the people creating those games gives me pause.

This is meant to be a cautionary warning, to keep an eye on MF and see if they start deleting other "adult" content.

EDIT: Adding in info from Westnet in the Fairy Fighting thread regarding MediaFire's new d-baggery.

This is what I have learned through a circle of emails. Mediafire is sticking to their tos and is now actively removing anything adult in nature including but not limited to images, media clips, programs, graphic texts, and/or files that elude to adult sexual or violent content.

Even if you hide the files within a .zip of any kind, they are allowed to open and check for adult content.

You cannot upload passworded files any more, unless you are a premium user. This grants them full access to compressed files, .pdfs, .xmls, etcetra.

The MD5 is tracked to prevent re-upload.

For each violation, the uploader gets 1 to 3 strikes. After 5, the entire account is suspended and access to any files hosted (be they adult oriented or not) is not allowed by the uploader or downloaders.

You can email them to ask for your file access back, however more than likely you will be denied.

Shame that mediafire is going this route all of a sudden, but what can you do? Pretty soon we wil be right back to rapidshare and their free user download speed cap.

 

[Sath]

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Annoying, but I'm not currently worried: harder the government pushes to control things, the more creative the people get. Nothing comes between a man (or woman) and their pornography. Nothing.

I like to think of the internet/porn consumer relationship as a giant alligator/dragon with tentacles growing out of its back:

Normally in a torpid state from constant porn consumption, but start poking it with a stick sure thing you'll get an agitated reaction. Start teasing it by stealing its sustenance, it'll rip your arm off. And if someone is is still yet teasing it: it takes out a fucking bazooka and goes to town.

 

[westnet]

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The terms of service for mediafire:

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General Use of the Service, Permissions and Restrictions

You agree while using MediaFire Services, that you may not:

Alter or modify any part of the Services;

Use the Services for any illegal purpose;

Use any robot, spider, offline readers, site search and/or retrieval application, or other device to retrieve or index any portion of the Services, with the exception of public search engines;

Transmit any viruses, worms, defects, Trojan horses or other items of a contaminating or destructive nature;

Upload any Content that includes code hidden or otherwise contained within the Content which is unrelated to the Content;

Reformat or frame any portion of any web page that is part of the Services without the express permission of MediaFire;

Collect or harvest any personal identifiable information or account names or solicit users;

Impersonate another person, whether real or fictional;

Permit any third parties to use your name and password;

Violate or attempt to violate MediaFire systems or interfere with the normal use of the Services by users;

Without a Reseller account granted solely by MediaFire, resale MediaFire's products and Services;

Post advertisements, promotions or solicitations of business;

Transmit any form of solicitation or Spam;

Submit any Content that falsely implies sponsorship of the Content by the Services, falsify or delete any author attribution in any Content, or promote any information that you know is false or misleading;

Distribute an illegal or unauthorized copy of another person's trademarked or copyrighted work;

Distribute Content that is libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, abusive, harassing, threatening, unlawful or promotes or encourages illegal activity;

Distribute Content that violates the rights of others, such as distributing Content that infringes any copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret or violates any right of privacy or publicity, or that is libelous or defamatory, or that directs any user to the content of a third party without consent of the third party;

Defame or libel any person; invade any person's right of privacy or publicity or otherwise violate, misappropriate or infringe the rights of any person;

Export or re-export Content in violation of the export or import laws of the United States or without all required approvals, licenses and exemptions;

Post any links to any external Internet sites that are obscene or pornographic, or display pornographic or sexually explicit material of any kind.

Terms of Service

MediaFire's Terms of Service prohibits the distribution of Content that infringes any copyright, trademark, or patent, without the necessary licenses, rights, consents and permissions to distribute the Content. Distributing any Content that violates the rights of others and sexually explicit material are other examples of Terms of Service violations. Refer to our Terms of Service for more information about violations.

Typical text from mediafire

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Hello (removed)@gmail.com,

The file (Eight Marbles 12-25-2011.rar) violates the MediaFire Terms of Service. Due to it being distributed from your account, it has been removed. Also, a Strike has been placed against your account and can lead to a termination of service.

Check our policy violations page for more information.

Thank you for using MediaFire as your cloud based file sharing service provider.

Sincerely,

The MediaFire Team

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After emailing them:

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Hello,

Thank you for contacting MediaFire. Your account and/or file(s) has been removed due to a violation of our Terms of Service. For more information please read our Terms of Service at:

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Thank you for using MediaFire as your cloud service provider.

Sincerely,

Mediafire Support


Ticket Details
Ticket ID: (removed)
Department: Strikes/Suspensions
Type: Issue
Status: Closed
Priority: Medium

Ticket Text:

Good afternoon. I am sending this ticket to seek an explanation for my account suspension. This morning I lost two accounts to suspension, and was given multiple strikes on my account.

Some of the files I received strikes on were hosted for several years, and 3 of those files were private .rars that were only hosted for storage and had no downloads on them.

My premium account did host content, however these were mirrors at most of files already present on mediafire. My free account was completely locked up, so no one had access to it. I am not certain why both accounts were suspended.

Upon creation of a new account to check and see if this was just an error, I was unable to upload similar files, be there adult oriented or not. I was given the error during verification that the files matched files are prohibited for upload on mediafire. I re-zipped these files, and only a few hours later, I found that these files were removed and the new account was suspended.

I wish to know if I could get any information about this, as I have many files that were not even remotely adult oriented, and I received multiple strikes on my account for single files.

I eagerly await your response.

What you will probably be seeing a lot more of:

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Still trying to get permission to post other emails from other people.

 

[bluestyle]

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Was under the impression SOPA and PIPA didn't come through due to last effort people put into shutting those bills down.. what the hell

It's funny how they say that it's to stop piracy.. very clear theres more to it than that, goverment and their plots to control everything they see -_-

 

[hmoeller]

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It's funny how they say that it's to stop piracy.. very clear theres more to it than that, goverment and their plots to control everything they see -_-

There's nothing wrong with stopping piracy at industry level (like, building a fake iPod and selling it cheap or similar). Problem with those laws is that private people will be sued for sharing; products with DRM are already not re-sellable now. Companies freely admit that used software or movie markets are what they hate - for industry level pirating, there are already laws in effect.

Next year, you won't be able to sell your used car because it was online-activated only for you, and reselling it will be against some obscure terms you signed when buying it. Oh, and you can only drive it on registered streets, where you have UMTS connection to the car companies master server; using the navigation system will require a monthly subscription or you may pay-per-use for it.

Right now, even if you purchase a game or a movie or music, you don't OWN it anymore - you are just allowed to use it under certain circumstances. Those circumstances can change without notification, of course. Why? Well, why not? Because the company can make money from it without creating something new, that's why.

TL;DR: you are only a f*cking customer. Pay and let yourself being f*cked. Thank you.