Wikileaks: His name was Julian Assange

Alright, let me start by saying that Ii was unable to read all of the leaks, but I did skim through a good portion of them before writing this. In my opinion, this guy is a hero. He did what few people these days could and got info on what our government has been up to. Now our government hates him for it and is hunting him down. It is quite clear to me that everyone is using him as a scapegoat because clearly the people he got his info from are most likely high up in the US government, but it's clear that it's easier to prosecute the guy that is giving the public what they want and a little see through on what our government has been doing with other governments. It's like some people are saying "he's the god damn batman" this guy really is. I'm glad he did what he did and it goes to show how mad the US government is now since they are hunting him down. The amount of butthurt is just amazing. Instead of using the internet guy as a scapegoat, why don't you do something about the leaks in your government instead? You think taking a website offline will stop the spread of information? You couldn't be more wrong. Seriously, do you think we are all new to the internet and that we don't know how to copy and paste? Just because they are trying their damndest to take this site offline shows how mad they are. This manhunt is nothing but a big farce to take the public’s eye off of the people that leaked the documents. The best part is that some of the leaked docs came from Obama’s administration. Lol, butthurt much American government? On the flip side, this guy is also human and has made some mistakes, if you've been keeping up he's wanted for a sex crime in Sweden. But this still doesn't change the fact that this guy is being censored. At one point Sweden actually dropped the charges against them, but now they want to bring them back up, coincidentally right after Wikileaks started releasing information. Like I said, this hunt is a farce by the government because they don't like the fact that he is showing a little bit of the truth about the US government. I must say though, leaking stuff about spies is not the way to win the people’s support. If there is one thing that we don't want to see it's the death of others. Well some do, but the majority of us don't.

P.S. My pic is lulzy I know but this guy isn't the real hero. Whoever leaked all the info to him, those people are the people we should be thanking

Best Korea/South Korea Part 2

Well clearly things appear to be getting more heated between these two, and to make matters worse the US is planning a training exercise for this Sunday in the Yellow Sea. If you ask me, the US just needs to stay the fuck out of this, we have enough problems with the Middle East and our fucked economy. But of course you know and I know this isn't going to happen. We can't resist poking our nose where it doesn't belong. Unless things calm down soon I think we are looking at another war and we all know that China isn't going to do anything about dear leader Kimmy going off the handle and blowing stuff up. I've read that some people think that if anything is going to happen it's going to be if and when Best Korea's uranium enrichment facility gets bombed, which should happen anyway because Best Korea is literally bat shit insane; and who wants the insane having nukes. I mean, that's like giving me the power over a nuke. I would use one just for the lulz. I'd blow up Russia. This training exercise is like asking for something to happen. I'm sure that our leaders are thinking, "Nothing will happen, we're the US. They would be crazy to attack us while we are training." Yeah, I'm sure they won't do anything. You know they didn't just attack the South and all. No, they are a civil people. It's almost like the US wants something to happen to us so we can go in there and fuck them up. Just watch, something will happen and then the US will get involved and then suddenly China will come to dear leader’s aid and we will have a huge war on our hands. Still, I say hope for the best, plan for the worst, and the worst case here is we end up going to war again with Korea.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/11/25/koreas.crisis/index.html?hpt=T2

The Best Korea/South Korea incident

Well, what can I say. If I may quote someone who was talking about how China won't back North Korea if they don't knock this shit off, "China won’t do shit because they rely on US gluttony for their economy, and besides, they're almost bro tier status with the US as it is. Everyone knows Best Korea is bat shit insane, so even if something goes down, the world will just be like, ‘gtfo North Korea, nobody likes you.’" –anon

This is true even though we see a lot of trade between China and North Korea. China really isn't going to do much if NK is going off the handle all the time and just blowing shit up for the lulz. Let’s be happy that only two people died. The rest of the world is most likely willing to forgive (we will call it Best Korea for the remainder of this article) Best Korea for pulling this shit, although I have to say if I was in charge of South Korea I would be like: "Oh you did not just pull that shit, ATTACK!" but that’s me and not South Korea who was just like: “Well, if you do it again, you're going to see some shit.” But the question comes up: If the US had to get involved what would happen? Would China try and pull something? Would Russia try and pull something? Would the US go belly up because we can't afford shit right now? if I was Best Korea I would be planning an attack right now because we are in the middle of a war with the middle east and very vulnerable economy wise. If you want to crush your foe, attack when he is weakest and right now we are pretty weak. Who knows maybe this was just a test that they knew they would be able to get away with and it's just a precursor to something much larger. Either way, only time will tell.

Piracy

I have strong feelings about piracy so I’m going to start with that. Alright, you might have heard through various websites and news groups that 4chan has started a campaign against the RIAA and MPAA, showing them that they do not approve of them bringing lawsuits against upstanding Americans like you and me for stealing a couple of songs or for downloading a movie here and there. Well, this has mostly been building over the last year or so since reports of the ACTA have started to come out, and I have to say there is a lot in the ACTA that I really just don't agree with. As you can see from the links below, our friends over in the EU are not happy with the ACTA either. If you haven't seen or read the ACTA leaked copy yet it can be torrented at the piratebay or you can find info for it on Wikipedia. Basically the main things that you should be aware of is the three strike rule which, according to one of the articles below, will be removed here during the next round of negotiations; but what it would do is if you're caught downloading or saving copyrighted info to your computer you get three warnings before they shut off your internet permanently. The next thing that you should be aware of is that this treaty would give the people that the government appoints the right to search your iPods, laptops, iPhones, smart phones, etc. for any copyrighted material without probable cause or a warrant and you will need to let them look at them. Essentially, they could walk up to your house knock on your door and say they are there to search your hard drives and computers for copy righted material and you can't stop them from doing so. I don't know about you, but I for one don't want someone going through my hard drive. One it's a invasion of privacy and two it violates one of my rights as a US citizen. The treaty says the searches will occur at boarders and airports, but really, what’s to stop them from coming to my house and pulling this shit.

Alright, let’s talk about the black list bill a little bit. What this bill would do is give the government the power to remove a site from the internet if the site was housing copyrighted material. The first problem I see here is that (and this point was made in one of the links I provided), let’s say that this bill had been brought up around 5 years ago. Well, during this time sites like Veoh and YouTube had lots of copyrighted material posted on them, and if this bill had been brought up then and passed, sites like YouTube most likely wouldn't be around anymore. Just because a site happened to have a user who uploaded something that he wasn't supposed to should not give these people free rein to take a whole site off the internet just because they are mad their shit got posted. The current system works just fine for this, we have a take down system in which the company messages the site telling them to remove the content or else, and truthfully most of the time the site complies, so why start a bill that is going to waste tons of your money just so these fuckers can feel like they have some power over what is happening on the internet when in reality all they are doing is wasting your money on something they can literally do nothing about?

I’ve talked to many people about the current state of affairs we find ourselves in and many agree with me that if the MPAA had changed with the times and started providing a service 5 years ago that for a fee you could download movies, most people would be willing to pay for it. Instead, they would rather sue you over the stuff you stole instead of trying out a legit service that allowed people to pay for a movie. Truthfully any movie that is in theaters and is leaked is a camcorder recording that some dude sat there filming and most of the time they are crap and not even worth watching. It isn't until the DVDs are released that people will really start downloading, and even then I know people who will download it just to see if they like and then delete it and go out and buy it.

Now I’m going to give you my feelings on piracy. The RIAA can eat it. They don't give shit to the artists and musicians, these guys make most of their money from touring, which is the way it should be. These guys, even when they are big, should want to play for crowds of people and not just sit in a studio cutting records. There are quite a few of them that really don't care that their songs are being torrented and in fact encourage people to do it. As for the movie industry, pirating is most likely hurting them a little bit, but not as bad as they are claiming. People are still willing to go see a movie in the theater, especially if it's good like Inception or (haven't seen it yet) Tron. Also, let’s say someone goes online and watches a movie that they really like and decides to go to the theater with his girlfriend and watch the movies simply for the experience. In this instance piracy just made the MPAA some money. At the same time though, when I see new BlueRay releases that are outrageously expensive, I’m not willing to pay close to 40 bucks for a movie sorry, that’s game prices or crack prices. And if you went and saw it in the theater you’re paying close to 50. Something needs to be done, but I don't think it needs to be as drastic as a black list or an international treaty.

Link about DDOS attacks, though very one sided if you ask me. The article doesn't tell you that what started 4chans anger is the fact that the RIAA paid a company to DDOS thepiratebay.org. They played with fire and got burned.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-20022264-261.html/

Our next link is about the COICA which is essentially a black list for the internet kind of like what China has, except this bill would allow the US to remove a site off of the internet if it had copy righted material on it.

http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/11/case-against-coica

Another interesting link is to this lawsuit that keeps going into appeals while the RIAA keeps raising their amount they want to be paid by this poor woman in a very poor attempt to make a statement about how they feel about internet piracy.

RIAA Wins Big Against File-Sharer, $1.5M for 24 Songs | TorrentFreak

More anger coming from Mr. Simmons of Kiss, This guy is funny. He thinks people today listen to what he thinks. I can tell you this much, there was a lot of angry users of a certain website that had some faxes and dog poo to send Mr. Simmons.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/10/kiss-frontman-we-should-have-sued-them-all.ars

This article is an interesting read. Very long, but interesting. Give it a once over.

The real cost of free | Cory Doctorow | Technology | guardian.co.uk

This right here is why I love the Brits. They may say some pretty crazy shit sometimes (not meaning to offend anyone), but they know when something is going to be really bad and when to stand up and say something.
EU Parliament Members Not At All Happy About ACTA | Techdirt