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WinExtra Community Forums » Forum: General Technology News - Recent Posts http://www.winextra.com/forums/forum/1 Bring back the eXtra in Windows en-US Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:08:48 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 <![CDATA[Search]]> q http://www.winextra.com/forums/search.php Garry on "SOPA/PIPA" http://www.winextra.com/forums/topic/10748#post-53812 Sat, 31 Dec 2011 08:22:58 +0000 Garry 53812@http://www.winextra.com/forums/ Well I received this in my email the other day so its a start I guess. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dear Sir/Miss, You may have heard about Protect-IP (PIPA) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) currently under consideration in Congress. If passed, among other things, SOPA requires Web hosting companies like 1&1 to police websites in order to prevent them from communicating copyrighted information on the internet. We would like to make sure you are aware of 1&1’s official position on SOPA. As a global provider of domains and hosting services, we oppose the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) or Protect-IP (PIPA) Acts currently under consideration. While we observe the concerns of those who are troubled by the potential impact on protecting intellectual property online, 1&1 feels there is an urgent need to strike a balance between dissemination of and access to information and protection against its illegal use within the public domain. The US government is currently reviewing SOPA and PIPA as possible ways to prevent unlawful distribution of copyrighted materials available on the internet. These current proposals, if passed, would allow for significant interventions into the technological and economical basis of the internet. This could put the vast benefits and economic opportunities of entirely legal and legitimate e-business models at risk. Generally, companies offering technological services should not be forced to be the executor of authority in such matters. If they were to act upon every implication of content infringement without any judicial research into the actual usage of its customers, the integrity behind their customer’s freedom of information and speech would be enormously harmed. 1&1 Internet, Inc. has worked through associations and with related companies to ensure that these aspects are taken into account. Thus, we welcome the serious consideration by the US Congress of the potential harmful effects on Internet freedom should SOPA and / or PIPA be passed as law, and hope the stability of the Internet’s domain name system (DNS) remains intact. We encourage every Internet user concerned about these plans to contribute to the debate and to raise their voice with their local representatives in the House or Senate. One way to express your concerns could be to use one of the websites that emerged to protect user interests in the current legislative debate, such as <a href="http://fightforthefuture.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://fightforthefuture.org/</a>. At 1&1 we support you, our customer, and an open internet. If you find that you are supporting a company that encourages SOPA and wish to drop them as a provider, please follow the simple instructions contained on the website linked below. Thank you for being one of our extremely valued customers, and for taking the time to read this. Best regards, Frederick Iwans General Manager 1&1 Internet Inc. link: <a href="http://order.1and1.com/DomaininfoMove?ac=BE.US.US263K22814T7073a" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://order.1and1.com/DomaininfoMove?ac=BE.US.US263K22814T7073a</a> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ I guess the other option is for the rest of the world to just firewall the US and work around it. Pierre on "SOPA/PIPA" http://www.winextra.com/forums/topic/10748#post-53808 Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:14:36 +0000 Pierre 53808@http://www.winextra.com/forums/ You're not a pawn, you're a queen <img src="http://www.winextra.com/forums/my-plugins/smiley-choice/Default Smiley/icon_biggrin.gif" title=":D" class="bb_smilies" /> As David says, though, there isn't much we can do from abroad – in addition, we sometimes have our own version of the bill to contend with. In the end, money in the pockets of the big corporations is always the deciding factor. Callow on "SOPA/PIPA" http://www.winextra.com/forums/topic/10748#post-53807 Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:05:58 +0000 Callow 53807@http://www.winextra.com/forums/ Here's where I get annoyed. GoDaddy changed their position, all their rivals are still pushing customers to switch even offering discounts if you do. Who is to say the others DON'T support SOPA, they just haven't publicly proclaimed it. In the end, all of these companies simply support money in their pockets. I hate being a pawn. Pawn David on "SOPA/PIPA" http://www.winextra.com/forums/topic/10748#post-53806 Fri, 30 Dec 2011 08:36:25 +0000 David 53806@http://www.winextra.com/forums/ Can't do much from the UK but I'm really, really hoping that a sizeable number of your fellow citizens will drag themselves away from the TV for long enough to register some opposition. But I won't hold my breath. The polititians involved are already bought and paid for by the corporates.. Billy on "SOPA/PIPA" http://www.winextra.com/forums/topic/10748#post-53805 Fri, 30 Dec 2011 03:20:10 +0000 Billy 53805@http://www.winextra.com/forums/ I'm really surprised this hasn't been discussed here. Either nobody here cares, or for the people who reside here, the truth of the matter is already obvious beyond the need for discussion. At any rate, GoDaddy has now totally reversed...at least on SOPA. <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/247114/go_daddy_officially_opposes_sopa.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.pcworld.com/article/247114/go_daddy_officially_opposes_sopa.html</a> Garry on "Not just computers" http://www.winextra.com/forums/topic/10727#post-53749 Sat, 17 Dec 2011 06:32:03 +0000 Garry 53749@http://www.winextra.com/forums/ Yeah I was reading that over on an Aviation news group I follow <img src="http://www.winextra.com/forums/my-plugins/smiley-choice/Default Smiley/icon_smile.gif" title=":-)" class="bb_smilies" /> This is just one of many private ventures heading out into low earth orbit <img src="http://www.winextra.com/forums/my-plugins/smiley-choice/Default Smiley/icon_smile.gif" title=":-)" class="bb_smilies" /> And it does make sense as over half the fuel used in a regular launch is burnt getting the payload above the denser lower atmosphere. for a good example of this, download and play this game, getting into orbit is harder than it looks <img src="http://www.winextra.com/forums/my-plugins/smiley-choice/Default Smiley/icon_smile.gif" title=":-)" class="bb_smilies" /> <a href="http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/download.php" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/download.php</a> Pierre on "Not just computers" http://www.winextra.com/forums/topic/10727#post-53748 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 17:50:18 +0000 Pierre 53748@http://www.winextra.com/forums/ <a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=microsoft-co-founder-paul&WT.mc_id=SA_CAT_SPC_20111216" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=microsoft-co-founder-paul&WT.mc_id=SA_CAT_SPC_20111216</a> ChadMan on "For good and or for bad." http://www.winextra.com/forums/topic/10715#post-53675 Sun, 04 Dec 2011 04:24:48 +0000 ChadMan 53675@http://www.winextra.com/forums/ Predator. <a href="http://www.dump.com/2011/04/03/predator-a-smart-camera-that-learns-video/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.dump.com/2011/04/03/predator-a-smart-camera-that-learns-video/</a> ChadMan on "YaCy (yah-see)" http://www.winextra.com/forums/topic/10713#post-53666 Fri, 02 Dec 2011 07:37:01 +0000 ChadMan 53666@http://www.winextra.com/forums/ Censorship free search engine? <a href="http://search.yacy.net/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://search.yacy.net/</a> Pierre on "Flimsey chips" http://www.winextra.com/forums/topic/10671#post-53439 Sat, 29 Oct 2011 09:26:47 +0000 Pierre 53439@http://www.winextra.com/forums/ So, instead of buying you RAM by the GB, we'll now buy it by the metre? <img src="http://www.winextra.com/forums/my-plugins/smiley-choice/Default Smiley/icon_wink.gif" title=";)" class="bb_smilies" />