papermasterz wrote...
I'm thinking that FAKKU would have become like a strictly no ENGLISH website. Perhaps all Japanese or some other language. But if ever the bill would be passed, I hope at least it will be just language change for FAKKU! not total shutdown. Since about 80-90% of what's posted here are Japanese stuff, the US can't touch it unless Japan does the same thing, altho i doubt japan will doom it's own culture.
the SOPA provision has a section specifically for the shutdown of foreign websites and foreign language websites that host or host links to copyrighted material. see
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/01/how-pipa-and-sopa-violate-white-house-principles-supporting-free-speech
for more information. basically, SOPA would take down any site that even references copyrighted material in the context of how to acquire it for free. this means that: 4CHAN, HONGFIRE, FAKKU, DANBOORU, GELBOORU, TOSHI2CHAN, MANGATRADERS, NIHONOMARU, ANIMESENSHI, ANIME-TAKE, MANGAFOX, BATOTO, AND EVERY SINGLE SCANLATING OR TRANSLATING SITE THAT CURRENTLY EXISTS would simply be wiped from existence, all to protect corporate profit margins. its not that we're stealing anything from them, oh no. after all, the definition of theft is "the taking of something without permission with the result of permanently depriving its previous owner of it". you cannot permanently steal a piece of digital data, only copy it. therefore, it is not stealing, merely "getting for free what you would pay out the ass for otherwise". So what we at Fakku!--and every other site that hosts material that other people pay for--are doing is, in fact, taking away from the PROJECTIONS of how much companies THINK they'll make. in effect, SOPA is kinda like the corporations and their lackeys saying
"waaaaahhhh, we didn't make all the money we think we have a right to earn! waaaahhhh!....wait? there's some good and honest people preventing us from making our millions of dollars so we can buy corporate jets and our gold plated toilets? KILL THEM ALL! RAPE THEIR WIVES! BURN! PILLAGE! TAKE AWAY ANYTHING THAT GIVES THEM SATISFACTION IN THIS WORLD!"