American Civil War Part II: Upload Wars

The architect of our doom.

The law-dogs in Washington (which is near Seattle) proposed two bills on capitol hill that would allow websites to be blocked if they post stuff that other people claim is not their stuff.  These bills (SOPA and PIPA, which stand for other words) alienated the Internet community thing and people were mad.

Pictured: SOPA, an asshole douchE.  FIRST!

People were so mad that they went back into the past and formed companies called Google and Wikipedia.  They made these Internet companies become really popular by giving away free information and services so that when the time came for the bills to be protested, January 18th, 2012, they could shut down or post stuff to highlight the things.

Pictured: Google, Wikipedia, other websites and the Internet behind them.

Then came the day after the time for the bills to be protested, January 19th, 2012ish.  The website megaupload.com was shut down for the main reason that these bills were proposed.  Then came the small collective Anonymous, who was really really mad, so they started hacking and hacking until they could hack no more.

Pictured: Anonymous hacker people

The fighting escalated after that.  After the government raided the offices of all the big banks and sank their ships and bailed them out, the whole country started what was known as a "flame war" but what is now known as "American Civil War Part II: Upload Wars." The fighting continued until the mighty American States of United Way was destroyed December 21, 2012.  Then we all got spaceships.

Evan Banned, III

History report for Ms. Habisham's 12th Grade English Class

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Canadian DRM Bill To Have Another Go

The Canadian Paliment is set to hear another round of Bill C-32, their version of the American DMCA that will make it illegal to remove DRM software "locks" from copyright protected digital media, even for lawful purposes.  The bill has been proposed before and failed but pressure from Hollywood and RIAA has lead to a strengthened vision of the legislation. Globe and Mail via BoingBoing

C'mon, Canada.  I thought you were cool.  Don't repeat the mistakes of the past by giving power over to those crazy folks in Hollywood.  Look at what they did to Tom Cruise.  I understand the need to protect copyright, but Canada is supposed to be this awesome winter wonderland where everybody leaves their doors unlocked and stuff.  So c'mon, go for the softer approach and show your downstairs neighbors how it's done.  Pssst... if anyone knows where I can download the last episode of Doctor Who, lmk!