Master list of RIAA members
The RIAA provides a nice list of record labels to avoid on its website, but it’s all split up across 27 pages, making it rather inconvenient to do a quick search. Here’s a full plaintext list for your convenience.
Indictment Charges Megaupload Site With Piracy
fuck off, it’s a goddamned file host
better shut off ever file hosting service ever to even things out then! oh, that includes private web hosts too, better shut those off! better shut off anything that has a checkbox or rule saying you agree that you own the content being uploaded!
for the record, megaupload is my favorite file host along with my own personal server and dropbox. their shit is wickedly fast and every year i paid for the premium shit just for how fast an convenient it is, along with the direct linking and all that. it’s convenient as shit when grabbing files others upload, especially when they’re in like 50 parts.
actually good alternatives so you can stop using shitty services like hotfile or some shit like that:
http://dropbox.com
http://www.zippyshare.com
http://www.speedyshare.com
http://mediafire.com
http://2shared.com
http://badongo.com
http://freakshare.com
http://x7.to
Honestly I don’t think anything can beat this SOPA message.
Nedroid, you did good.
SOPA lives—and MPAA calls protests an "abuse of power"
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has looked at tomorrow’s “Internet blackout” in opposition to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)—and it sees only a “gimmick,” a “stunt,” “hyperbole,” “a dangerous and troubling development,” an “irresponsible response,” and an “abuse of power.”
“Wikipedia, reddit, and others are going dark to protest the legislation, while sites like Scribd and Google will also protest. In response, MPAA chief Chris Dodd wheeled out the big guns and started firing the rhetoric machine-gun style.
“Only days after the White House and chief sponsors of the legislation responded to the major concern expressed by opponents and then called for all parties to work cooperatively together, some technology business interests are resorting to stunts that punish their users or turn them into their corporate pawns, rather than coming to the table to find solutions to a problem that all now seem to agree is very real and damaging.”
Can I interrupt for a moment? Thanks. When you complain that opponents didn’t “come to the table to find solutions”, do you mean that we didn’t give NINETY-FOUR MILLION DOLLARS to congress like the MPAA? Or do you mean that we didn’t come to the one hearing that Lamar Smith held, where opponents of SOPA were refused an opportunity to comment? Help me out, here, Chris Dodd, because I’m really trying hard to understand you.
“It is an irresponsible response and a disservice to people who rely on them for information and use their services. It is also an abuse of power given the freedoms these companies enjoy in the marketplace today. It’s a dangerous and troubling development when the platforms that serve as gateways to information intentionally skew the facts to incite their users in order to further their corporate interests.”
Oh ha ha. Ho. Ho. The MPAA talking about “skewing the facts to incite” anyone is just too much.
“A so-called “blackout” is yet another gimmick, albeit a dangerous one, designed to punish elected and administration officials who are working diligently to protect American jobs from foreign criminals.”
Except for the part where this is completely false, it’s a valid point.
“It is our hope that the White House and the Congress will call on those who intend to stage this “blackout” to stop the hyperbole and PR stunts and engage in meaningful efforts to combat piracy.”
Riiiiiiight. Protesting to raise awareness of terrible legislation that will destroy the free and open Internet is an abuse of power, but buying NINETY-FOUR MILLION DOLLARS worth of congressional votes is just fine.
I’m so disappointed in Chris Dodd. He was a pretty good senator, wrote some bills (like Dodd/Frank) that are genuinely helping people, and is going to be on the wrong side of every argument as head of the MPAA. What a wasted legacy.
Please take some time to watch this! STOP SOPA! >:(
REBLOG AND SPREAD THE MESSAGE!
Am afraid one day Tumblr will be gone just like YouTube and other sites. (TAT;)
This very, very, very important and you should all watch, and reblog, and inform everyone about this, please, this is not just about the US, but the whole world too.
PLEASE DON’T SCROLL PAST THIS
IT’S KIND OF REALLY IMPORTANT
IT’S KIND OF REALLY FUCKING IMPORTANT
Reblogging again for great justice
Oh my god. Seriously? People, watch this.
Oh my god. Everyone should watch this. Seriously guys. O_O
#SOPA
This really, REALLY needs to be reblogged and shared by EVERYONE. I’m not even kidding. I support this guy in every way possible.
The online piracy scandal is just that: a scandal. It’s manufactured bullshit shaped like a martyr story and introduced to our less-than-tech-savvy powers-that-be (lawmakers) as a horrible travesty in which the successful and very-monetarily-sound 1%ers aren’t making enough money, and thus feel the need to criminalize and force ludicrous, exorbitant fees upon the weakest of the 99%ers. I’m not making this up. Look up any RIAA-based piracy lawsuit case. It’s pure, utter bullshit, and this guy has evidence that it was all FABRICATED and PLANNED to be that way. It’s not a conspiracy, or a theory. It’s hard evidence that is frankly PLAIN AS DAY.
Share this. Promote this. MAKE THIS A THING THAT CANNOT BE IGNORED.
And don’t worry if your blog only has 6 followers. REBLOG IT ANYWAY. The more traffic this gets, the bigger it will get. And this is BIG.
FUCKING IMPORTANT. I wouldn’t drop an F-bomb here if it wasn’t important to me.
REBLOG NOW.
reblogging again cuz i forgot to tweet it
shiiiiiiit
reblogging into forever
Hey, all you tumbles who followed me recently, this is kind of important and I’d appreciate it if you’d pass this around and maybe even contact your state / country’s representatives!
STOP SOPA, SAVE THE INTERNET
read and act. call your senator or representative and do something about this. i can’t do a thing from where i’m sitting but let you know.