Last week there was a small meeting at Mozilla to discuss SOPA, the Internet Censorship Bill.
It was eerie. The DC groups were practically screaming, "this bill is the worst we've ever seen and we can't stop it" -- while everyone else had barely heard of it. The consensus? We needed to wake people up.
Well, yesterday the Internet woke up. *You* woke the internet up.
To everyone who wrote their rep, made calls, posted to Twitter and Facebooks -- and especially to everyone who ran the modal and blacked out their logos, you are courageous and you made history yesterday. You just took the first step to combine the web's largest sites, its strongest communities, its staunchest defenders and billions of users into and unbeatable force for stopping censorship.
The scary part? We still might lose. Though growing fast, our coalition still isn't strong enough.
The bill is backed by an unholy alliance of Hollywood, its unions, drug companies, and the Chamber of Commerce. They are pouring money into it, and they've been working on this for years. Yesterday, big players like Tumblr, Mozilla, Reddit, BoingBoing, and even 4chan came out strong on our side. Now it's your turn. We've got to dig in and go viral.

The bill would also make unauthorized streaming a felony.

Instead of trying to control streaming using legal force, they should control it by offering it to customers for a reasonable price.

I know I'd pay $4.99 a game to watch the Packers every weekend with good picture quality.

Originally Posted by: Zero2Cool 

Absolutely. If I did have access to a free stream (even 30FPS, HD resolutions), I'd still prefer paying $80 a year to watch the Packers play (more if they make the postseason). I know that a lot of people DO take advantage of illegal streams and downloadable content, but there are a lot of honest people out there that resort to streams/etc because they don't have any other choice. I don't watch any TV other than the Packers and the occasional Brewers game, but there's no way in hell I'd pay $40 for freaking TV even if I did. Maybe if my cable carrier (Time Warner) would allow me to customize which channels I get and charge me only for what I use, I'd be a lot more willing to pony up the money.

Originally Posted by: Porforis 

When all actions are crimes, moral people become criminals.

I hate to say this, I really do, but I ceased to worry about being law abiding some time ago. Because I ceased to believe that elected officials or the boobs who vote them in are capable of reasoned rule-making.

Any country that passes well over 100,000 pages of new laws and rules every year, any country that consents to a system of non-checks and non-balances that does so, has long since lost any semblance of moral legitimacy.

Sorry, James, sorry, George, sorry, Thomas, sorry to all of you who put your name on those documents of 1776 and 1789, the Great Experiment is dead.

Fuck 'em all.

Originally Posted by: Wade 

Right now, during the season I'm paying $115 a month for six months just so I can watch the Packers. And six more months of nearly $60. That's a lot of money just to watch one team for a season ... in my opinion.

I'm cancelling my DirecTV a few days before Christmas. It'll save me over $400 through the duration of my contract. I don't know how I'm going to watch the games, but I'll find a way. Probably setup shop at a relatives home in Green Bay.

DirecTV cost is just too much and unreasonable, especially considering I've missed portions of the a couple games because of their blackout regulations.

Originally Posted by: Zero2Cool 

Do you have a buddy back in Wisconsin that will let you set up a sling box in his house? that way you can get Wisconsin's broadcast at ur home tv in Denver. Would save you a lot of money.

Originally Posted by: gbguy20