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Im proposing SBAFA (Stop Buying Anything From Anybody). This will destroy pirates, the internet, media content providers and the government all in one fell swoop
After the SOPA/PIPA bills, and the shutting down of Megaupload/Other file sharing sites, it's clear that the Internet Wars have just begun.
I've been reading up on this one today and it is actually more disturbing and encroaching and even more upfront about some of the things SOPA and PIPA were trying to sneak by.
While publishers are involved, they're on the tech/softwware/social side of things and I think in the long run they'll turn around. Members of the MPAA and RIAA, however, will never change and its time for he game studios underneath them to become targets of boycotts.
Thankfully, a lot of them are just still in licensing shit, but there are big media outlets like Warner Bros. that have become part of the gaming industry. I'm inclined to show mercy toward Grasshopper - as Lollipop Chainsaw is just published by Wb, but I will never be buying a WB-owned game IP ever, ever again. No Batman, no Mortal Kombat no Scribblenauts, no Lego Batman 2 and so on. Fuck 'em.
Aliens: Colonial Marines? Sorry, no. And the list goes on. Its actually rather easy for me to boycott licensed games as they're usually shit anyway.
This cycle just has to end.
While publishers are involved, they're on the tech/softwware/social side of things and I think in the long run they'll turn around. Members of the MPAA and RIAA, however, will never change and its time for he game studios underneath them to become targets of boycotts.
Thankfully, a lot of them are just still in licensing shit, but there are big media outlets like Warner Bros. that have become part of the gaming industry. I'm inclined to show mercy toward Grasshopper - as Lollipop Chainsaw is just published by Wb, but I will never be buying a WB-owned game IP ever, ever again. No Batman, no Mortal Kombat no Scribblenauts, no Lego Batman 2 and so on. Fuck 'em.
Aliens: Colonial Marines? Sorry, no. And the list goes on. Its actually rather easy for me to boycott licensed games as they're usually shit anyway.
This cycle just has to end.
@DreamingDarklyRobin
Give us credit, the US government bursts into a bar and loudly declares it's going to kill everyone, the European government plants dynamite around the saloon before quietly saying "Oh no, the saloon" and then detonating it.
Give us credit, the US government bursts into a bar and loudly declares it's going to kill everyone, the European government plants dynamite around the saloon before quietly saying "Oh no, the saloon" and then detonating it.
Since 2006? That's a pretty ninja bill, but the internet will take this one out too hopefully.
@KtMack23
Megaupload's removal has nothing to do with video games at all is why. The only relation is that people may have downloaded games from there, but I don't think that's enough for Jim to talk about it.
@KtMack23
Megaupload's removal has nothing to do with video games at all is why. The only relation is that people may have downloaded games from there, but I don't think that's enough for Jim to talk about it.
I may be wrong but isn't ACTA aimed at being a GLOBAL agreement?
labelling this as "coming to Europe" would be misleading, no?
labelling this as "coming to Europe" would be misleading, no?
I like this... A lot....
the US government bursts into a bar and loudly declares it's going to kill everyone, the European government plants dynamite around the saloon before quietly saying "Oh no, the saloon" and then detonating it.
the US government bursts into a bar and loudly declares it's going to kill everyone, the European government plants dynamite around the saloon before quietly saying "Oh no, the saloon" and then detonating it.
This sounds right up the EU's street. I mean, we're stuck with a Parliamentary President who thinks that democracy is for the weak minded, so freedom isn't very high on the agenda.
@Stevil - i didn't say it was owned by WB. I cited another licensed game,as an example, in a separate paragraph.
Paragraphs are, after all, intended to separate ideas.
Aliens is owned by Fox, Gearbox is developing and 2k is publishing. Take Two is thier parent company and Scarlett killed the butler in the study with a revolver.
Paragraphs are, after all, intended to separate ideas.
Aliens is owned by Fox, Gearbox is developing and 2k is publishing. Take Two is thier parent company and Scarlett killed the butler in the study with a revolver.
The thing that makes the acta the worst is that it is a secret and because noone knew what was in it exactly there where no real protects earlier. it is not a law like the sopa and pipa but an agreement which means there will need to be laws in the future for the countries to fulfill the agreement, most likely sopa and pipa where part of that.
the US has already signed the acta.
the US has already signed the acta.
Hah, good luck to Europe banding together and fighting this one like the Americans did. Between differing languages and general animosity towards each other (Which is always caused by the usual suspects, UK / France / Germany), looks like this bill will have no problem passing sadly.
I liked the last line of the bill though - "We'll lodge this bill to a country with an even more incomprehensible language!"
I liked the last line of the bill though - "We'll lodge this bill to a country with an even more incomprehensible language!"
Hurray for people just starting to care after 3 f'ing years. Seriously people, it's like you don't know your rights are at stake until you get a tweet about it. US and Japan already signed onto this within the past year, which means if it goes through no more wonderful english patched eroge.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/04/acta-is-here.ars
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/04/acta-is-here.ars
Also Obama signed ACTA as a matter of "national security" and it was constructed so congress, parliament and other western governing bodies don't get a say. This let Obama look good on SOPA and PIPA, it was a gesture and meaningless.
@ZeniGeva
Well considering the amount of Europeans who joined America in telling SOPA/PIPA to fuck off since it would screw the whole internet, not just you folks across the Atlantic, I don't think banding together and fighting this will be a problem. The problem will be that our leaders couldn't give a shit.
ACTA isn't just a threat to Europe, it's a threat to every nation that's signed it, including America.
Well considering the amount of Europeans who joined America in telling SOPA/PIPA to fuck off since it would screw the whole internet, not just you folks across the Atlantic, I don't think banding together and fighting this will be a problem. The problem will be that our leaders couldn't give a shit.
ACTA isn't just a threat to Europe, it's a threat to every nation that's signed it, including America.
Aye, ACTA as well must be stopped.
This bill also goes directly against the lisabon treaty, all laws must be crystal clear and shown to the public, this fucking sigourney of a bill was being shoveled underneath the tables by USA.
Don't you fucking touch my europe,we already have it bad here as it is.
Fucking hollywood & co....raze them to the ground.
This bill also goes directly against the lisabon treaty, all laws must be crystal clear and shown to the public, this fucking sigourney of a bill was being shoveled underneath the tables by USA.
Don't you fucking touch my europe,we already have it bad here as it is.
Fucking hollywood & co....raze them to the ground.
Well fuck...I guess its Europe's turn now..I already know a few celebs here in Holland on twitter and they are opposed to this bill as much as Jim is. So it is definitely known here to a lot of people already.
If we could just do exactly the same thing with SOPA, by which I mean the black out we could beat this thing down as hard as we did with SOPA.
ACTA BLACK OUT!
If we could just do exactly the same thing with SOPA, by which I mean the black out we could beat this thing down as hard as we did with SOPA.
ACTA BLACK OUT!
Can I point out that this Act isn't just Europe? And that Europe is one of the few countries /yet/ to sign this? This would affect the world not just Europe.
@Silent: Well, the jump from a larger text about a collection of Warner Bros. games to a brief mention of singular Fox game (without mentioning that fact) was a tad jarring. Yes, paragraphs are great, but don't forget the details, you little scamp.
Jim, as people have already noted, ACTA is WORLDWIDE and the countries involved are:
Australia, Canada, the European Union, Japan, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, the Republic of Korea, Singapore, Switzerland and the United States
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Counterfeiting_Trade_Agreement
Australia, Canada, the European Union, Japan, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, the Republic of Korea, Singapore, Switzerland and the United States
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Counterfeiting_Trade_Agreement
I live in Poland and my sorry ass government is about to put its signature on this stinkin agreement in a matter of days. The whole internet around here is not only buzzing about it but everyone is simply enraged by it. There are multiple petitions, protests both on and offline, the gov sites are being hacked, I am just waiting for riots outbreak. I hope that politics will wake up and realize that something is fucking wrong with it and flush ACTA down the toilet where it belongs.
And every other country that has any involvement with the US is being coreced to include come ACTA/SOPA/PIPA clone in its legislation.
Just a couple of months ago, the Colombian senate voted to approve/reject a bill nicknamed "Ley Lleras" (Lleras law), as part of the requirements of a trade agreement with the United States, a bill that beared a scary resemblance to SOPA.
Luckily it didn't pass here, but other countries like Spain have already approved similar laws.
Just a couple of months ago, the Colombian senate voted to approve/reject a bill nicknamed "Ley Lleras" (Lleras law), as part of the requirements of a trade agreement with the United States, a bill that beared a scary resemblance to SOPA.
Luckily it didn't pass here, but other countries like Spain have already approved similar laws.
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