ACTA.

[CrazyNomad]

piratebay.org

check the page, it have a pic of a famous brazilian writer/author:

http://paulocoelhoblog.com/2012/01/28/promo-bay/

The Pirate Bay starts today a new and interesting system to promote arts
Do you have a band? Are you an aspiring movie producer? A comedian? A cartoon artist?
They will replace the front page logo with a link to your work.
As soon as I learned about it, I decided to participate. Several of my books are there, and as I said in a previous post, My thoughts on SOPA, the physical sales of my books are growing since my readers post them in P2P sites.
Welcome to download my books for free and, if you enjoy them, buy a hard copy – the way we have to tell to the industry that greed leads to nowhere.
Love
The Pirate Coelho

http://paulocoelhoblog.com/2012/01/2...rate-my-books/

[Rob]

Wow, unexpected move. Props to Coelho for this.

[Luxeraph]

piratebay.org

check the page, it have a pic of a famous brazilian writer/author:

http://paulocoelhoblog.com/2012/01/28/promo-bay/



http://paulocoelhoblog.com/2012/01/2...rate-my-books/

And thats why MAFIAA hates so much those things, while good artists actually get more sales out of piracy since people that like their work want to reward them, MAFIAA only makes pomegranate (well to be fair not always but most of the time) and who would want to buy something you already know is crap.

[FenixR]

And thats why MAFIAA hates so much those things, while good artists actually get more sales out of piracy since people that like their work want to reward them, MAFIAA only makes pomegranate (well to be fair not always but most of the time) and who would want to buy something you already know is crap.

MAFIAA?

[Locked]

MAFIAA?

Music And Film Industry Association of America™ (MAFIAA™)

[FenixR]

I find a little ironic that their acronym is Mafia...a

[Luxeraph]

I find a little ironic that their acronym is Mafia...a

What's ironic about that? I think they're worse than the actual mob.

[Raul]

I find a little ironic that their acronym is Mafia...a

It's obviously not a real thing.
It's a parody, making fun of the MPAA and the RIAA, merging the two to get MAFIAA.

[Locked]

I find a little ironic that their acronym is Mafia...a

Pretty sure that's the joke.

[Flonne]

piratebay.org

check the page, it have a pic of a famous brazilian writer/author:

http://paulocoelhoblog.com/2012/01/28/promo-bay/



http://paulocoelhoblog.com/2012/01/2...rate-my-books/

I like the part where he says sales are going up due to pirating.

Fits with my moral fiber quite nicely; if something is truly worth buying, it will be bought. My best example is Xenoblade; I've already purchased a Wii specifically for its US release. I pirated the EU version and dropped over 100 hours into it, and I will be doing so again as soon as I get the US version. DA:O is another example of mine. Great game, put hundreds of hours into it, then bought it and didn't even play it anymore, just felt it deserved a purchase.

The real reason the industry is mad is quite obvious; they don't want to have to produce quality material anymore but still want the same level of sales.

[Locked]

An online petition with 1.3m+ signatures.

[Kalovale]

Europe, thee have my admiration.

In -20C (-4F)

lol

[Shidoshi]

There's also this: http://killacta.org/

Manifestations on more than 200 cities. I'm attending one here in Marseille with ~450 confirmed till now. Paris has more than 3k people.

[Shidoshi]

I'm nervous about tomorrow. The public manifestations have Anonymous into them.

Wish me luck.

[KhainiWest]

Police: BRONIE SHOOT ON SIGHT GOGOGOGOGOGGO.

You're just going to be standing around yelling stuff no reason to be nervous, unless the french police tear gases you I don't see anything bad happening.

[FenixR]

Be sure to have something to cover your face with if things gets hairy, just sayan.

[Shidoshi]

Be sure to have something to cover your face with if things gets hairy, just sayan.

I'll have scarves. It's really cold anyway so.

[DeanNim]

too bad singaporeans are either scared of or love the PAP too much to do any protests. -.-

[Shidoshi]

It was awesome! Loads of people, we went through the streets shouting and giving away flyers explaining ACTA.

There were a few people that tried to push their political babble onto it and make the manifestation illegal by doing stuff like blocking streets. But some guys from Anonymous took the leadership and organized things so it would be the most peaceful and correct.

There should be youtube videos later today.

[Kalovale]

That sounds exciting. I'm more depressed though how Europeans handle this matter so much better than US people did SOPA/PIPA. If we hadn't had the tech industry, they probably wouldn't have got any opposition at all.