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| 2012-01-17 | |
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| Posted by:Fred |
| #9 all you need to know about how oily and scumbaggish the MPAA is: they hired Chris Dodd (D-Countrywide) as their new leader |
| Posted by: Frank G 2012-01-17 09:38 |
| #8 tw: They are voluntarily going dark as a protest to two bills before congress, SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect IP Act). The two combined have been nicknamed "The Great Firewall of America", and are regarded as destructive censorship laws. Congress is already rattled enough so it has put SOPA on hiatus, though its backers are probably planning to insert it as a rider in a "must pass" bill. The expressed dangers of SOPA and PIPA are described are that the bill would cause "an explosion of innovation-killing lawsuits and litigation"; "block access to many websites, foreign and domestic, at the DNS level, based on the assertion by anyone that they contain copyrighted images, text, or other content; and that ISPs and web hosts would be responsible for carrying out the censorship when ordered to." "Even the supporters of SOPA and PIPA, such as Disney, CBS, and Sony are endangering their own domains, but seem to be unaware of the fact." "The legislation would almost certainly kill Wikipedia, Facebook, YouTube, most email servers, most search engines, many blogs and news information websites, and slow the Internet down to a crawl as unless content was certified as owned, it would have to be treated as illegal." TL;DR: SOPA and PIPA are effectively like Righthaven as created and enforced by the US government, and applicable to all Internet content. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2012-01-17 09:01 |
| #7 Who plans on blacking them out, Anonymoose? Themselves. It's a protest about SOPA and other games Hollyweird owned and operated agents [aka congresscritters] are trying to impose in order to retain their standing among the 1 percent. Call me when Occupy Hollyweird starts up. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2012-01-17 08:48 |
| #6 She was also in the Adam Ant music video, "Goody Two Shoes". |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2012-01-17 08:42 |
| #5 Caroline Munro was the star of an amazingly, hilariously bad Star Wars ripoff called "Starcrash" (1978), which also had Christopher Plummer and David Hasselhoff. Some of the great quotes from the movie. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2012-01-17 08:36 |
| #4 Who plans on blacking them out, Anonymoose? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2012-01-17 08:28 |
| #3 Internet note: Tomorrow is the planned blackout of several important Internet sites, including Wikipedia, Reddit, Boing Boing, WordPress, and several dozen more sites who have and haven't announced. The actual effect will probably be minimal. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2012-01-17 08:23 |
| #2 Happy Birthday/Daily Gam Shot 01/16 Caroline Munro (English) aka Naomi (first woman ever undeniably killed by James Bond) in "The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)" aka Anna D'Antoni in "Maniac (1980)" aka Margiana in "The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973)" aka Jana Bates in "The Last Horror Film (1982)" aka Dia in "At the Earth's Core (1976)" (age 64)  |
| Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC 2012-01-17 01:04 |
| #1 Happy Birthday/Daily Gam Shot Carolina Ardohain (Argentine) aka Pampita (model, television personality and actress) (age 34)  Nice Necklace |
| Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC 2012-01-17 01:03 |
