The story of two little bills and the purple thing that didn't care!

[Lynx]

First up: Long time stalker, first time poster. I expect a GTFO from everyone just on those grounds.

But hear me out first.

If you've ever spent time on that internet thing you've no doubt encountered the words SOPA and PIPA quite frequently. Scary shit, lemme tell ya. Makes the DMCA look like a slap on the wrist in comparison...but enough of dirty congressmen and their guilded pockets!

The SOPA and PIPA are designed to deal with copywrite infringement and its amazing ability to drain money from the original content holder, abeit in a totalitarian way of flat out ganking stuff without a proper reason required.

Name one site that features a buncha copywrite illiterate peoples who infringe on a daily basis almost as much as a Chinese sweatshop. You guessed it, the Furaffinity!

Now, if I were the owner of said site, I'd be a little bit more concerned than the average userbase...but I'm not Sean Piche, internet superhero!

https://twitter.com/#!/Dragoneer/status/159000249543835648

While other sites have at the very least placed a censer bar over their logo, my boy Sean here just shrugs the shit off like a true internet badass. But if someone like me or you or just about anyone with a large userbase that totally hosts original content without any infringement what so ever was in a position like that...you'd at the very least put a head's up somewhere.

...but not Sean Piche, internet badass.

[ColonThree]

I think you're mistaking baddassery with ignorance. To quote from IRC:

<Conan|2> I just went to look at dragoneer's twitter
<Conan|2> he is
<Conan|2> the most uninformed man in the world
<Conan|2> "A site like FA going offline isn't going to convince Congress to vote. People need to contact their senators, reps, etc."
<Conan|2> THE SITE GOING OFFLINE IS SUPPOSED TO GET PEOPLE MOTIVATED TO DO THAT

It's entirely possible he just doesn't get what the point is.

Alternative conspiracy theory: He understands the concept just fine, but can't be bothered with it/doesn't care and makes up excuses.

[ColonThree]

Well I guess he changed his mind/was bribed/got nagged at/was determined to prove us wrong

Administrator notice:
While we at Fur Affinity feel that fighting online piracy is important, the heavy-handed SOPA and PIPA bills proposed by the US Congress would have a chilling effect on our ability to conduct business.

Learn more about SOPA and PIPA.

If you live in the US, please contact your senators and representative and ask them to vote these bills down. The bill numbers are H.R. 3261 and S. 968.

If you live outside the US, please spread the word to your US-based friends and family. If you use sites with US-based domain names or US-based search engines, then these bills will affect you, too.

Press Ctrl+F5 to see the protest banner, if you can't already see it.

The exciting protest banner is just black with "[CENSORED]" in the corner.

[ColeTrain]

While other sites have at the very least placed a censer bar over their logo, my boy Sean here just shrugs the shit off like a true internet badass. But if someone like me or you or just about anyone with a large userbase that totally hosts original content without any infringement what so ever was in a position like that...you'd at the very least put a head's up somewhere.

...but not Sean Piche, internet badass.

You forgot one key thing: Neer doesn't care about anything, except for how popular he is or how will something damage/improve his reputation in furry fandom. Nothing else. The new "banner" was made just to make "whiners" shut up.

[ProvincialTwit]

Ughhhhh and here I was hoping I could get through the day avoiding any of this stupid bullshit about SOPA.

It's all just another internet overreaction to something most of the people 'protesting' don't understand.  End of story, thread closed, great job go hog wild.