{"id":832,"date":"2012-01-09T11:29:42","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T16:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=832"},"modified":"2012-01-09T11:45:52","modified_gmt":"2012-01-09T16:45:52","slug":"protect-ip-sopa-breaks-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/832\/protect-ip-sopa-breaks-the-internet","title":{"rendered":"PROTECT IP \/ SOPA Breaks The Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/31100268\" target=\"_blank\">This video<\/a> may be old news to many of you, but the stakes are too high not to post this for those who might not have seen it already.  I honestly wasn&#8217;t too worried about SOPA when I first heard about it because I figured the US Senate wouldn&#8217;t take something so ridiculously anti-Internet seriously.  But I was mistaken &#8212; they seem to like it quite a bit, and SOPA may very well be passed into law soon.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/31100268?byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/31100268\">PROTECT IP \/ SOPA Breaks The Internet<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/fightforthefuture\">Fight for the Future<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Everything we know and love about the Internet today will change if SOPA is signed into law.  I will have to take down my articles on ROM hacking and suppress discussion of emulation, for example, or face the possibility that <em>VC&#038;G<\/em> will forced off the web.  Heck, I might even end up in jail.  With SOPA, freedom of speech will be suppressed and the Web will become one giant glazed-over commercial for McDonalds.<\/p>\n<p>We can&#8217;t let one misguided law castrate one of humanity&#8217;s greatest inventions in the name of preventing the unauthorized copying of entertainment media.  If you like reading <em>VC&#038;G<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fightforthefuture.org\/pipa\" target=\"_blank\">tell your local representatives today<\/a> that you do not support SOPA and will hold them accountable if they support it themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video may be old news to many of you, but the stakes are too high not to post this for those who might not have seen it already. I honestly wasn&#8217;t too worried about SOPA when I first heard about it because I figured the US Senate wouldn&#8217;t take something so ridiculously anti-Internet seriously. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,35,21,5,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything-else","category-internet-history","category-news-current-events","category-vcg-announcements","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}