This post is, as usual for lukeprog, intensely awesome and almost ludicrously well-cited. Thank you! I will be linking this to friends.
I’m somewhat uncertain about that picture at the top, though. It’s very very cool, but it may not be somber enough for this subject matter; maybe an astronomy photo would be better. Or maybe the reverse is needed, and the best choice would be a somewhat silly picture of a superhero, as referenced in the opening paragraph.
From what I’ve read (admittedly not enough), it seems like SOPA only affects non-US-based websites, and only if they are explicitly devoted to hosting pirated content. Places like foreign torrenting sites would be blocked, but LessWrong and YouTube and Wikipedia would be perfectly safe. Correct me if I’m wrong.
It’s still a crappy law for making censorship that much easier. And I like to torrent.
No. Some provisions apply only to websites outside US jurisdiction (whatever that is supposed to mean), but the process below applies also to LW, YouTube, Wikipedia, and friends—from here:
Sets forth an additional two-step process that allows an intellectual property right holder harmed by a U.S.-directed site dedicated to infringement, or a site promoted or used for infringement under certain circumstances, to first provide a written notification identifying the site to related payment network providers and Internet advertising services requiring such entities to forward the notification and suspend their services to such an identified site unless the site’s owner, operator, or domain name registrant, upon receiving the forwarded notification, provides a counter notification explaining that it is not dedicated to engaging in specified violations. Authorizes the right holder to then commence an action for limited injunctive relief against the owner, operator, or domain name registrant, or against the site or domain name itself if such persons are unable to be found, if: (1) such a counter notification is provided (and, if it is a foreign site, includes consent to U.S. jurisdiction to adjudicate whether the site is dedicated to such violations), or (2) a payment network provider or Internet advertising service fails to suspend its services in the absence of such a counter notification.
Though, the image in that header seems to have been ran through some Photoshop filters; the original image from the OP was color and didn’t have any sketch lines, if I recall right.
I found the original image on Tineye ; it appears to be a piece of Mass Effect fan art (the Citadel station in the background is a dead giveaway). One of the originals can be seen on DeviantArt. I am somewhat saddened that the image appears to have been used without attribution, however.
The Superman is no longer human. If he is who “prevents us” from robots, it’s not our battle anymore. In that case we already depend on a good will of a nonhuman agent. Hope, he’s friendly!
This post is, as usual for lukeprog, intensely awesome and almost ludicrously well-cited. Thank you! I will be linking this to friends.
I’m somewhat uncertain about that picture at the top, though. It’s very very cool, but it may not be somber enough for this subject matter; maybe an astronomy photo would be better. Or maybe the reverse is needed, and the best choice would be a somewhat silly picture of a superhero, as referenced in the opening paragraph.
Any artists wanna draw Eliezer Yudkowsky or Nick Bostrom in a superhero costume?
Great artists steal http://www.superman-wallpapers.com/bulkupload/wallpapers/Superman%20Vs/superman-vs-robot.jpg
Changed. Let them complain.
Another thing you won’t be able to do once SOPA/PIPA passes.
From what I’ve read (admittedly not enough), it seems like SOPA only affects non-US-based websites, and only if they are explicitly devoted to hosting pirated content. Places like foreign torrenting sites would be blocked, but LessWrong and YouTube and Wikipedia would be perfectly safe. Correct me if I’m wrong.
It’s still a crappy law for making censorship that much easier. And I like to torrent.
No. Some provisions apply only to websites outside US jurisdiction (whatever that is supposed to mean), but the process below applies also to LW, YouTube, Wikipedia, and friends—from here:
Ah, yes, that is very vague and exploitable. Especially:
I’m now inordinately curious what the picture at the top was.
It was the image at the top of this quite good post that I ran across coincidentally:
http://facingthesingularity.com/2011/from-skepticism-to-technical-rationality/
Though, the image in that header seems to have been ran through some Photoshop filters; the original image from the OP was color and didn’t have any sketch lines, if I recall right.
I found the original image on Tineye ; it appears to be a piece of Mass Effect fan art (the Citadel station in the background is a dead giveaway). One of the originals can be seen on DeviantArt. I am somewhat saddened that the image appears to have been used without attribution, however.
Some spacey landscape, as I recall.
The Superman is no longer human. If he is who “prevents us” from robots, it’s not our battle anymore. In that case we already depend on a good will of a nonhuman agent. Hope, he’s friendly!