House of Reps and Obama kill SOPA

Ok the bill is dead...why is Wikipedia still spamming me with their redirects? And their ads begging for donations, jeez, they might as well just put some Viagra banners up there. It's same damn thing! Advertising.

And yeah I can still read Wiki. All I do is hit "stop loading page" and the redirect stops.

The bill(s) aren't dead, but let's hope they keep pining for the Chinese fjords.

China has fjords?

Yes it does.

I wasn't expecting Wikipedia's "protest" to be a lame Javascript overlay. I was expecting it to be completely disabled, a la like when I put my site into "maintenance mode" -- nobody can access anything (except me, logged-in as admin) -- the code isn't even there.

Rock Paper Shotgun is quite down.

So is Minecraft and Mojang.

I can do without Wikipedia for one day. Some people on the Cheezburger Network are making some rather good lols about SOPA. I've saved as many as I can find, so if you're curious, click the link in my sig that will take you to my page. If you click the "Favorites" tab, you should be able to find them. You can't miss them - they're stark black with (mostly) white font used for the text portion.

This is mine (referencing Wikipedia going dark):

The problem is that its now its shelved,when will it come back? it now needs to be eradicated, I have an idea ██████████████ ███████ ████████████ ██████████ ███████████████████ ██████████████████ ██████████████████ ████████████ ████████████ ██████████████████ ███████████████████████

In case someone wonders who else participates, see here http://sopastrike.com/ .

Sadly it seems that our admins didn't come to the decision to join as well, a shame .

Edit: US citizens might want to support this online petition.

If I had of known the Wikipedia thing would be a lame Javascript overlay I wouldn't have complained as much as I did.

Yeah, I was expecting something... Try-y. This kinda gives me the impression that they don't really care, but don't want to be seen as such. Probably just me being cynical, but, well, there you go.

warpus said:

If you're against DRM you shouldn't have a problem with steam, as the company is against any sort of DRM. They don't have control over every single game they sell, but look to see what sort of DRM Valve games on there have.

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Ahem. Steam IS DRM. I can't play my game unless I check in with the Steam server. I'm sure someone will point out "offline mode", but that's a red herring; you STILL have to check in with the server to install and play the first time, even if you go to "offline mode" after that.

Can I bring the game CD with me to the cabin (no internet access), install, and play a complete game there? If not, it's DRM-infected. You may say that this type of scenario isn't important to you, but you can't tell me that it's not DRM.

aimeeandbeatles said:

This is punishing non-American users who have nothing to do with the stupid SOPA law.

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And if it passes, all of Wikipedia will be offline permanently within six months after someone (say, the Church of Scientology) lodges a copyright claim against them.

For that matter, I expect Civfanatics.com to go offline for the same reasons if SOPA passes.

Either of those would be a bit more punishing than a one-day blackout, no?

Traitorfish said:

Yeah, I was expecting something... Try-y. This kinda gives me the impression that they don't really care, but don't want to be seen as such. Probably just me being cynical, but, well, there you go.

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I mean, within a few seconds, I could put my site into Maintenance Mode to protest SOPA. But I don't feel like my website should be used as an extension of my political views. (Well, except for not having annoying Facebook 'like' buttons everywhere, but that's a different issue.)

aimeeandbeatles said:

I mean, within a few seconds, I could put my site into Maintenance Mode to protest SOPA. But I don't feel like my website should be used as an extension of my political views. (Well, except for not having annoying Facebook 'like' buttons everywhere, but that's a different issue.)

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Why not? It's your website. By definition it should reflect your views.

It doesn't feel right to use senshorship to protest sensorship.

While I STRONGLY DISAGREE with SOPA and PIPA, I think the way the opposition has spread it's message sets up a dangerous precedent where the internet just tells people what to think about a major piece of legislation. When you ask most opponents of the legislation why they believe it's wrong all they can say is "CENSORSHIP" and um "MY RIGHTS", they can't actually explain what it is they think the bill is doing wrong. What if one day it is the internet corporations who support an anti-liberty bill, but they are able to convince these same people that the bill is good just by telling them it is?

Obviously, we don't have this problem here, though.

First you whine because they black out, and then you whine because they do it with minimal technical effort. Seriously?
I expect you to whine tomorrow about that they are back again.

Elephantium said:

And if it passes, all of Wikipedia will be offline permanently within six months after someone (say, the Church of Scientology) lodges a copyright claim against them.

For that matter, I expect Civfanatics.com to go offline for the same reasons if SOPA passes.

Either of those would be a bit more punishing than a one-day blackout, no?

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That's the big fear.

The_J said:

First you whine because they black out, and then you whine because they do it with minimal technical effort. Seriously?
I expect you to whine tomorrow about that they are back again.

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I wouldn't have whined if I had realized it was a lousy javascript overlay. If you're going to do it, do it properly.

And, unfortunately, "whine" is a negative connotation. Am I being trolled here?