The Fall of a File Sharing Giant: For Megaupload, SOPA Might As Well Have Passed
On Friday Jan 20, the Federal Bureau of Investigation showed the potential power of the un-passed bill SOPA, and put the clamps on the file sharing giant Megaupload. The FBI then sent an official request to New Zealand police force to bring in the …
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Sign this petition to support the day of blackout: act.ly Google, Yahoo, Facebook and Amazon are considering a day of blackout to protest the “Stop Online Piracy Act” or SOPA. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss SOPA and what kind of impact this protest would have. Source: techland.time.com Subscribe to The Young Turks: bit.ly Download the politics or entertainment hour of this TYT episode: goo.gl Find out how to watch The Young Turks on Current by clicking here: www.current.com The Largest Online New Show in the World. Google+: www.gplus.to Facebook: www.facebook.com Twitter: twitter.com
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TVLine Items: Idol’s Scotty McCreery Visits Dixie, In Plain Sight Eyes Mädchen …
American Idol Season 10 champ Scott McCreery will soon be whistling singing Dixie, playing himself on an upcoming episode of Hart of Dixie. McCreery comes to the CW charmer to perform his single “The Trouble With Girls” during a “pivotal scene” between …
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The Vandals’ Joe Escalante on SOPA: How the Daily Variety Lawsuit Proves it …
24 2012 at 12:20 PM We all know about the Daily Variety suit that plagues the Vandals, but yesteday bassist Joe Escalante published a column over at Huffington Post that talks about SOPA and how it bodes ill for the Internet…using their case as an …
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The House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on their version of the bill known as SOPA or the Stop Online Piracy Act. The Protect IP Act would allow the attorney general to create a blacklist of sites they see as engaging in infringing activities, to be blocked by ISP providers, search engines, payment providers and advertising networks all without a court hearing or trial. Numerous groups have come out against it but will Congress listen. O’Reilly Media’s Alexander Howard discusses.
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Warren Buffett’s Chinese New Year’s Ditty; ‘American Idol‘ Has A New Plucky …
Today: Video Warren Buffett’s musical Chinese New Year’s greeting surfaces, Jim Carrey’s daughter is already humanizing the American Idol judges, and active US military members are the stars of the new “It Gets Better” video.
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Movie Theaters’ Top Lobbyist Resorts To Making Up Facts Concerning SOPA/PIPA
Okay, the lies and ridiculous claims from SOPA/PIPA supporters just keep getting more and more ridiculous. On a panel at Sundance about the whole SOPA/PIPA issue, it appears that John Fithian, president/CEO of the National Association of Theatre Owners …
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It’s very emotional and powerful playing – a pipa solo style par excellence, by the internationally acclaimed pipa virtuoso Liu Fang – www.liufangmusic.com la beauté, la puissance et la grâce de la musique traditionnelle chinoise, et le charme de la musique classique oriental! The title of this classical master piece is “King Chu doffs his armour” (Ba Wang Xie Jia), from traditional repertoire for pipa solo. It describes a tragic event around 202 BC (see http for more information and a video of higher resolution. About the music: according to Liu Fang, there are different versions for this piece according the schools and and styles of individual performers. This is the version of Wei Zhongle (1909–1998), one of the great pipa masters from the last century; it is very different from the version of Master Lin Chicheng(1922–2006). These differences are very natural for Chinese music from the classical literati tradition (In fact, the differences are expected, not the “sameness” as far as the soul of the music plays a role, see www.philmultic.com ) The pipa has four strings and 30 frets, and is often referred to as Chinese lute or the Flamenco guitar of China, though the playing techniques are quite different. Le pipa chinois est un luth à quatre cordes dont 30 frettes, et est également connue sous le nom de luth chinois ou de la guitare flamenco de la Chine. Die chinesische Pipa ist ein Vier-saitige Laute mit 30 Bünden, und ist auch bekannt als chinesische Laute oder die …
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Threatened Internet draws unprecedented support, protests kill SOPA, PIPAbills
By Sarah Ford DU students joined the Internet hacker group Anonymous and other major online companies, including Google, Wikipedia, Facebook and Craigslist, last week in protest of SOPA and PIPA, two controversial bills meant to combat online piracy.
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Eban Frankewitz, Hallie Day, Heejun Han Standout on ‘American Idol‘ Season 11 …
Night two of American Idol auditions took us to Pittsburgh, PA for the first time in the show’s history which is really hard to believe; after such a long wait the city did not disappoint as 38 golden tickets to Hollywood were handed out.
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TV Ratings Saturday: Betty White, ‘Over The Hedge’ Cause NBC, ABC Ratings Tie Up
The two new episodes of 48 Hours Mystery at 9 and 10 (as opposed to the typical one at 10pm) drew a 0.8 and 1.1 adults 18-49 rating, vs. a 1.0 rating two weeks ago at 10pm. Note that the repeat of Betty White’s 90th birthday was a single 90 minute show …
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Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian talks SOPA
5 live Investigates presenter Adrian Goldberg explains the new measures of enforcement laid out in the proposed United States SOPA Bill – and compares it to existing anti-piracy measures already operating in the UK. Joining the discussion is Alexis …
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SONG NAME: ”Sons of War” BY: Two Steps from Hell ALBUM: ”Nemesis” Please notice that I DON’T have anything to do with Anonymous. I simply just helping spreading their message! PLEASE Share this with everyone you know!! We need to unite against this madness and stop it!!! Proof: boards.ign.com Or just visit it megaupload… TRANSCRIPT Citizens of the United States, We are Anonymous. This is an urgent emergency alert to all people of the United States. The day we’ve all been waiting for has unfortunately arrived. The United States is censoring the internet. Our blatant response is that we will not sit while our rights are taken away by the government we trusted them to preserve. This is not a call to arms, but a call to recognition and action! The United States government has mastered this corrupt way of giving us a false sense of freedom. We think we are free and can do what we want, but in reality we are very limited and restricted as to what we can do, how we can think, and even how our education is obtained. We have been so distracted by this mirage of freedom, that we have just become what we were trying to escape from. For too long, we have been idle as our brothers and sisters were arrested. During this time, the government has been scheming, plotting ways to increase censorship through means of ISP block aides, DNS blockings, search engine censorship, website censorship, and a variety of other methods that directly oppose the values and ideas of both Anonymous …
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Furious freetards blitz the wrong SOPA
The Scottish Organic Producers Association – whose website is at sopa.org.uk – was perplexed when it found itself on the receiving of dozens of nasty and illiterate emails. Remarkably, nothing about the site’s design – including pictures of sheep, …
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SOPA and PIPA, Day 2: The Web Stood its Ground. Now What?
“The Web blackout Wednesday may be remembered as one of the first successful online uprisings in the US, but leaders in the US Senate still planned to begin voting on PIPA next Tuesday.” California Representative Anna Eshoo, Dem., tweeted “I do not …
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Lyrics: I’m stuck in this bed you made Alone with a sinking feeling I saw through the words you said To the secrets you’ve been keeping It’s written upon your face All the lies how they cut so deeply You can’t get enough you take And take and take and never say No You’ve gotta get it inside You push it back down You push it back down No You’ll never get it inside Push it back down, Blackout, Blood in your eye You say that it’s not your fault And swear that I am mistaken You said it’s not what it seems No remorse for the trust you’re breaking You run but then back you fall Suffocate in the mess you’re making You can’t get enough you take And take and take and take Fuck it Are you listening? No You’ve gotta get it inside You push it back down You push it back down No You’ll never get it inside Push it back down You push it back down No You’ve gotta get it inside You push it back down You push it back down No You’ll never get it inside Push it back down, Blackout, Blood in your eye Floating down As colors fill the light We look up from the ground In fields of paperwhite And floating up You pass us in the night A future gazing out A past to overwrite So come down Far below We’ve been waiting to collect the things you know Come down Far below We’ve been waiting to collect what you’ve let go Come Down ‘Oh Come Down ‘Oh Come Down ‘Oh Come Down ‘Oh Come Down ‘Oh…
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Internet blackout stirs debate
Like the rest of the world, Park City was in the dark as websites challenged political leaders and lobbying groups with an Internet blackout Wednesday. The blackout was a 24-hour protest where participating websites closed shop to speak out against the …
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