There are roughly 212,646,642 MORE users of the Internet in China than in the United States. They easily use the Internet more than any two countries on earth.

The SOPA bill was discharged from the subcommittee yesterday.

Has a political career ever ended because of ONE vote? The SOPA bill is largely irrelevant except to studios or corporations until the copy[rite] act is found unconstitutional since the 1976 vague 4-factor codification of “fair-use”.
See USC 17 §107

Wow, look at that, this bill is sponsored by Lamar Smith, the same guy who wrote up the Protecting Children from Internet Pornographers act and the same guy who is blocking the legalization of marijuana bill. Go figure, lol man this guy hates civil liberties.

Why do you think a law worded in the days when the situation now was only science fiction should be applied now, and could possibly help anything?

We have tons of arcane federal laws that were never updated to reflect current reality, such as the one that says you can not use any “telecommunication device” to contact anyone anonymously that “annoys” them without being thrown in prison for two years, and fined huge amounts of money.

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/47/223.html

And you want another one?

No it wouldn’t be political suicide if passed because if you actually read the bill and gain an understanding on what’s going in then you would know that this bill is needed.

No, it’s called if your IP is caught downloading illegal music then you are caught red-handed downloading illegal music! That’s exactly how DHS and the RIAA catch people who download illegal content: by IP address—duh! Whether you delete the content later or not doesn’t matter because you have already downloaded it. That’s like stealing a cell phone from the store then later returning it but it doesn’t matter because you already stole it—duh! It ain’t rocket science! hahaha

So if the RIAA and DHS are caught the same way (IP addresses directly linked to downloading illegal music), then they should be punished, too! But it’s obvious you support this bill because you work for them or are associated with them. As of this moment, only 14 favor this bill while 1557 do not! That tells you right there that you are a tr011. haha

I’ll post this article here because it actually does have a lot to do with this bill in the big picture of things…

The Defining Issue: Not Government’s Size, But Who It’s For

The defining political issue of 2012 won’t be the government’s size. It will be who government is for.

Americans have never much liked government. After all, the nation was conceived in a revolution against government.
But the surge of cynicism now engulfing America isn’t about government’s size. It’s the growing perception that government isn’t working for average people. It’s for big business, Wall Street, and the very rich instead.
In a recent Pew Foundation poll, 77 percent of respondents said too much power is in the hands of a few rich people and corporations.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-reich/the-defining-issue-not-go_b_1159294.html?ref=yahoo&ir=Yahoo

Did you fail reading comprehension in middle school? I wrote it as plain as day: no one cares what YOU propose. Last I checked, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo! didn’t call CurtisNeeley up to ask for your sage advice or what you propose because again, no one cares what YOU propose. Get it? haha Geez, it’s like talking to a wall.

But of course, Google and the other corps do care about what SOPA will do. Which is why we want to stop it, So again, learn to read: no one cares what YOU propose but we all care to end SOPA. Get it? Now go back to learning how to read before you post.

Your quote: “ALL traffic to violating IPs and POOF; -foreign DNS blocked. Simple.”
My response: No, you’re wrong. As a network engineer, there are lots of others ways to get around firewalls. Hell, how do you think hackers in China get out of their firewalls? Please leave the technical stuff to real experts like me and stop with the bullsh*t OPINIONS. haha

I have a question for CurtisNeeley who is seemingly intent on shutting down the “Pornternet” and the passage of this bill.

You seem to be comparing the China, Iran like clauses of the SOPA and PIPA bills to the actual regulation of China and Iran. So to you I ask, have you read the bill and do you understand what the bill does? Because I’m sure if you did, you can see why the bill literally cripples the internet, ruins innocent people’s works, and does nothing but creates a confuddled mess of things.

So before I go raging on about why this bill is bad… I wanted to know where you stand or if you’re bandwagoning onto this bill because your case in the Appeals Circuit Court would also be subsequently affected.

Furthermore, I will also say piracy is also bad and while a measure should be enacted… wait, we have the DMCA already… Why is this bill being considered again?

Well, looks like it won’t be happening tomorrow after all.

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111220/11175317144/lamar-smith-says-just-joking-about-tomorrow-sopa-markup-postponed.shtml

Personally I think that’s about the most boneheaded move that Smith could’ve made. Next year is an election year and nobody is going to want to go anywhere near a bill as controversial as this one during an election year. Even if it does go through Obama would probably veto it for the same reason in reverse, to get every single net-geek, techie, and so on voting for him in November (because, y’know, Gingrich or Romney stood a chance in hell anyways).

Looks like the internet may be safe after all.

… GOOG asserted the unused REP as rational for continued display of thumbnails that violate copy[rite] overseas. GOOG, however, has not followed my request to NOT be indexed for OVER THREE YEARS! GOOG will claim no robots.txt file existed or was done incorrectly. I have HUNDREDS of witnesses and raw log files detailing records of hundreds of accesses by GOOG. A matter for trial! My site returned in over 18,000 searches at GOOG last month. I know the search terms that resulted in appearances … I requested NOT to be indexed OVER THREE YEARS GO!

GOOG scanned 17 million PLUS books in NY and are serial violators of copy[rite]. They scanned a book there with my nude images inside and re-published three more nudes by me WHILE FACING ME IN COURT FOR THE SAME! (Author’s Guild, et al v Google Inc) is nothing but conspiring with publishers to stretch “fair-use” around CRIME-scans

Non-profit search engine exceeding GOOG with user definable algorithms will soon be sought.

The DMCA is a ridiculous HOAX. I notified Google Inc, NameMedia Inc, and the Microsoft Corporation DMCA agents as well as the US Attorney General and the FCC. I have been ignored by everyone thus far except NameMedia Inc but only after nine months in court.

GOOG and MSFT image search engines fundamentally violate International law and could be fixed to not do so easily.

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111223/09051617180/law-firms-removing-their-name-sopa-supporters-list-sopa-support-crumbling.shtml

Whoops! There goes another one! Gotta stay on your toes with these guys. :P

Google Inc and others have faced me in United States District Court and now face me before the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. Google Inc will face me before the Supreme Court eventually. I have talked to Senators and Representatives already. SOPA will be entirely irrelevant once my federal lawsuit resolves and the FCC begins to REGULATE Internet wire communications content.

I already declined settling and will NOT settle and allow unregulated Internet wire communications to exist! Absolutely no amount of money will buy me off and if I die there are others who will continue my lawsuit.

Went to school before “middle schools” were invented though not in the days of one-room schools. Yahoo does not have an image search and is FOR SALE as lost cause.

I could build a search engine easily surpassing GOOG with user-definable search algorithms and will if needed and give it away! Have a Merry Christmas and celebrate the LAST Christmas with unregulated Internet wire communicatopms.

Your—very insane—quotes: “I could build a search engine easily surpassing GOOG[LE],” “Google Inc will face me before the Supreme Court,” and “SOPA will be entirely irrelevant once my federal lawsuit resolves.”

Dude, whatever you’re smoking, I want none. haha You are so delusional it’s really not even funny. And with your last statement, you revealed that you are: A) working for the RIAA; B) working for the government; C) in bed with either; D) all of the above. Any answer is the right one. :)

The simple overarching fact is that this bill is already sinking to the bottom of the metaphorical ocean. You’ve got previous supporters like GoDaddy and Gibson Guitar who are jumping ship so maybe you should jump ship, too. But please, for our sake, DON’T wear a life vest. hahaha

I know. It’s like they want a cop to sit in front of their house all day to make sure their kids dont run out into traffic…

Go Daddy lost 21,054 domains in 1 day because of SOPA: http://thenextweb.com/insider/2011/12/24/go-daddy-lost-21054-domains-yesterday-in-wake-of-sopa-pr-disaster/?awesm=tnw.to_1CMq1&utm_campaign=social+media&utm_medium=Spreadus&utm_source=Twitter&utm_content=Go+Daddy+lost+21%2C054+domains+yesterday+in+wake+of+SOPA+PR+disaster