Are we blacking out?

wayfaerer

"Embrace your dreams."

Location: The Lifestream

Joined: Apr 03 2011

wut?

i cant go online with my ps3, so that at least is blacking out

natenmn

I haven't had a chance to trim my hedges recently. Thanks for visiting anyway...

Location: United States

Joined: Jul 17 2009

Personally, I think we should (although I don't know if it'll make a difference). SOPA could have potentially dire consequences for user content based sites such as Gametabs.

wayfaerer

"Embrace your dreams."

Location: The Lifestream

Joined: Apr 03 2011

political wars on the net?

these guys have read into otherland by tad williams WAY too much.

this is the first ive heard of it. dayum.

folks cant get on facebook??

OH NOES, WHATEVER SHALL THEY DOOO.

on another note, i think it mght be a poor choice in jumping on board this black out shiz; screamin some bad voodoo at me, at least, dunno bout anyone else *shrug*

wayfaerer

"Embrace your dreams."

Location: The Lifestream

Joined: Apr 03 2011

oh i know that, but some people i know would lose their everloving minds without even a single day of facebook, or even a couple hours for that matter, in some cases.

when was tis war with SOPA initiated anyways?? and lit the proverbial fire?

StrangeJam

Da Manliness

Joined: Aug 23 2009

Gametabs is far from a small site actually, our leecher element is gigantic, archard once told me the site easily had thousands of individual views per day lol, in fact check how many guests we have at all times.

karathrow

Joined: Oct 26 2010

I'm down for it, but I will miss Gtabs ;-;

SolidX

Joined: Jan 17 2012

I'm relatively new here but I think it's our duty to blackout gametabs.

It's common to have a "it's not my problem" or "it doesn't affect me" attitude towards things that happen in Washington DC, especially on the internet. But SOPA & PIPA actually DO. A significant portion of the internet's core infrastructure is located in the United States. Passing these bills means granting one country the power to screw around with DNS (the addressing system of the internet).

So when some company decides oh let's blacklist a site for "infringing" content such as an image macro or game tabs or actual acts of piracy, we will all suffer and eventually turn to other methods of addressing websites that have been banned. This not only makes the internet more dangerous (from an internet security standpoint) but less reliable as a whole. Since when was the last time those old farts in Congress got anything concerning technology right?

tl;dr It's our duty as netizens to blackout gametabs to show Congress what the effects of their censorship will be as well as inform the people who've been living under a rock and don't know about SOPA or PIPA yet. i've blacked out 3 websites so far and I think we should BLACKOUT GAMETABS as well.

natenmn

I haven't had a chance to trim my hedges recently. Thanks for visiting anyway...

Location: United States

Joined: Jul 17 2009

Blackout!

auriplane

Joined: Sep 06 2008

Blackout? Or EMGs?

Lemoncobbler

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Location: SoCal

Joined: Dec 22 2010

jesus archard I had no idea this site was so popular! how thrilling
guess i'm down for a blackout then

auriplane

Joined: Sep 06 2008

I think you took a wrong turn. We're not anonymous at all!

Bhael

Location: Newcastle, UK

Joined: Feb 18 2010

I support this.

RexLeRouge

IMPACTO

Joined: Aug 15 2008

*nods head in approval*

Ash

Joined: Dec 10 2011

soundsandstuff

Joined: Sep 27 2009

awesome ash, the gametabs blackout thing you made is working for me, i'm seeing an empty black page load before every page with links to sopa and stuff, it shall not pass!!

Giogiogio4

For all the dreamers: Our planet's dream is not over yet...

Joined: Jun 10 2010

If this bill passes we should have a data base torrent set up. so that we can have access to the entire Tab data base just in case the feds decide to take over.

I have been downloading like crazy lol. Got all my Music software and VSTs and Games/ Music all backed up and stored away :)

Giogiogio4

For all the dreamers: Our planet's dream is not over yet...

Joined: Jun 10 2010

I honestly am not surprised by this. America was founded on the idea of freedom. A country were people were suppose to have open minds and the ability to express freewill and expression. But has become the very thing it the Founding fathers were against when they made this country. I'm ashamed to even be in this country most of the time. It's one stupid thing after another with the Government.The very Idea of this law goes against the founding concept of Capitalism.And the Constitution it was formed on.

I wonder how much time and money is wasted on Stupid laws like these. Look at the video game laws they recently tried to pass. SO instead of using the billions of dollars we pay in taxes to fix the job market and homeless situation people are more worried about "Violence" in video games. I cant even count the number of countries that have all ready disproved the entire Piracy bullshit. it's already a common sense fact that 1 download does not equal 1 lost sell. If music is downloaded it does nothing more then give free advertisement to bands, since they don't make money off record sales, They get most of the income through shows. Most downloaded video game users never had the intention on buying the game anyways. Or they would simply buy it used and cut their profit legally. Downloaded movies don't do crap because People can easily rent it for a buck a few months later at a red box. OR see it on netflixs.

This law is just another stupid excuse to give the Corporations more power then they actually need. The very Concept of Guitar pro is to give users the ability to hear Tabs played and to write and learn music. There are no Laws that state that someone cant write down Tabs of a song they heard by ear and give them to a friend to learn. There are NO official Guitar Pro tabs. That's why I stopped buying anything from Dethklok. After all the Tabs were removed from the web, forcing you to buy his shitty book. This law is going to do nothing but lead to disaster. You will see once people are not allowed to sell used stuff on ebay and CL/ Amazon anymore.

zen03y

CATFOOD

Location: Lynn, MA

Joined: Jun 20 2009

SOPA!!!!!!!!!!