Comments on: Casual PIPA SOPA rant

By: Jacob

Jacob — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 01:17:24 +0000

Its not wrong. They are trying to protect their own websites’ existance. Its not like they owe you their services. In fact in most websites’ cases, its completely free for billions of people. Personally I think that this is pretty much the best way to do it, because not only the people who saw it were informed, but also people who hear about it from their friends and other people on the internet too!

By: Jacob

Jacob — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 01:11:29 +0000

But if they don’t spread the word to people through drastic measures, like blocking their website alltogether, some of the websites we use every day could be blocked forever. Don’t you think one day is a good trade off for forever???

By: HeadHunter67

HeadHunter67 — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:09:42 +0000

I agree with you on the things you said in your post, Alblaka.

I don’t think SOPA/PIPA is a good idea – but people who blacked out their own sites in protest were just doing the government’s work for them, for the day.

They say they “wanted to give people a taste of what it’s like”, but that’s NEVER been the best way to raise awareness. All it does is to breed animosity towards the cause.

I’d dare to say that no politician who supports the act was in any way inconvenienced by the blackouts, and that most of the people affected are too poloticially apathetic to do anything about it anyhow. It was, at most, a momentary interruption of the status quo.

By: Alblaka

Alblaka — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:59:51 +0000

A claim is they want to show they’re not just scriptkiddies launching DDOS’ at everything.
Let’s see how it turns out :3

By: Harmony

Harmony — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:54:17 +0000

XD Lol, I put TNT into mine….. :3

*opens a present, finds a IndustrialCraft2 nuke*. O.O

By: DGardener

DGardener — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:52:06 +0000

I’d be surprised if it’s true. Doesn’t sound like Anonymous to do something like that.
They purposely have stayed with the DDOS attack method (afaik) because it’s non violent, and they’re against violence.
Turning Sony’s website into a torrent list is a dangerous move, they’re just giving everyone reasons to hate them, and I don’t know their opinion on piracy, but supporting it is bad.

By: Alblaka

Alblaka — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:26:29 +0000

Presents full of dirt.

By: Alblaka

Alblaka — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:26:09 +0000

http://www.itnews.com.au/News/287428,anonymous-threatens-sony-with-anti-sopa-attack.aspx

As always it’s hard to determine how much of it is true, but if they really plan something like that, Sony IS screwed. Seriously, there aren’t enough firewalls in the world to stop a bunch of dedicated smart hackers.

By: Harmony

Harmony — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:20:59 +0000

So that’s where we were storing the excess randomness, after we had too much excess even for the recycled random box…….

Note: if/when someone makes a Christmas texture pack for IC2, those boxes should look like presents lol

By: DGardener

DGardener — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:20:36 +0000

Mixing Xenomorphs with the bugs from Starship Troopers? It would be so awesome.
And that’s nothing compared to upcoming creeper AI on minecraft.
I foresee many screaming…

On Sony? That’s interesting. They did take down some government websites, in what’s considered the biggest online retaliation ever.