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Well, there's more to it than that, but it's a highly likely outcome.

Check this website/video for more info:
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However, in a nutshell, not only are these new acts funded entirely by corporate greed, they make for a worse, barely usable internet.

Imagine an internet where you have to be careful what you upload. You have to be careful what you send pictures of. You can't draw fan art anymore. You can't perform your favorite song into a camera. You can't go to your favorite fan sites because they've been shut down. Youtube will be GONE. Facebook will have to be retooled entirely, and become much, much less...well, Facebook.

Not only that, it'll become a tool of censorship, and not for subjects deemed "obscene," rather, for people to speak out against injustice, for protests to be organized.

Please, if you don't want sites like Deviantart shut down, go to the link above and send in your info against this. I know you may feel that "Oh, bills like this are unconstitutional anyway, there's no way it'll get passed."

WRONG. There's a LOT of money behind these new laws. And the more money you have, the less that REAL laws, like the Constitution, apply to you.

Bottom line: No more Godzilla fan art.

Go show your support.
  • Listening to: God Damn Fan tributes
  • Reading: God Damn Fanfiction
  • Watching: God Damn Fan videos
  • Playing: God Damn Whatever I want
  • Eating: Um...doritos.
  • Drinking: Water.
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:iconelectroshock1408:
Pardon my French, but, WHAT THE FUCK ARE THEY THINKING!?!?!?!?
The Internet is, in a nutshell, a way to share what people do, in entertainment, in making a fan video, in doing things I can't even list all in one comment. If I frickin' feel like going on Youtube, searching up a lyrics video, with frickin' copyrighted music playing, i'll do just that. Besides half the music I have seen on Youtube has a F*****G COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER IN THE DESCRIPTION BOX!!!! That, in basics, says that you give ALL CREDIT to the Record Company/Dealer who copyrighted the song in the first place. Besides, all fan-made things are purely what they are, fan-made, no profit, just pure freedom of speech on what fans like, it's like what ~supergoji18 said, it's FREE ADVERTISING for the huge corperations who copyrighted/created this stuff in the frist place. So, they should just STFU, and let people do what they do, express themselves, by making fan-art, fictions, videos, AMVs, GMVs, lyric videos, etc.

THUMBS UP IF YOU THINK THIS BILL SHOULD NOT BE PASSED, IN ANY WAY, SHAPE, OR FORM, NOT IN AMERICA, NOT ANYWHERE!!!
SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT THIS BILL, DON'T LET D.A. GET SHUT DOWN.

Also, this is to all internet pirates: STOP BEFORE YOU RUIN THE INTERNET ANY FURTHER THAN YOU ALREADY HAVE, UNLESS YOU WANT A USELESS INTERNET, STOP IT AT ONCE!!!
There, I've ranted long enough.
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:icondrakemyshiba:
it sounds like they're trying to take our freedom of speech awa from us or something like that
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:iconnakedamericanman:
Problem: We need to stop piracy.

Solution: Send Little Suzy to jail for singing Ke$ha on Facebook.

LOLWUT.
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:iconbracey100:
~Bracey100 Nov 30, 2011  Professional Digital Artist
The quote one of my favorite copywritten passages from the works of Christopher Moore, this is "heinous fuckery most foul!" Sue me if you can bitches!
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:iconzillah91:
Not being a resident of the US of A, I don't think it's possible for me to sign the petition. :/ Take note, stateside fans: that makes it all the more important that you get in on this!
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:iconlorddeathheart:
If the bill is passed we will become China in the terms of internet they have invasive monitoring programs that block all sites they deem illegal . Going from porn to anything bad about the government hell last time i checked they could not look up the titanium square incident because it put a bad light on the true actions of their government . Now with this law if god/what ever religious deity you worship/ forbid this pass we will lose everything he stated but also more . Any media sharing site , and most likely yahoo and all of them . Also any streaming media sites like webcams or anything else they would not be able to directly control is on the site so the internet would basically be shut down in the USA no more free speech no more freedom of expression no more blogs about how bad the government sucks hell no more shopping online for anything out of country most likely . So all in turn this bill will turn us into the country we would have been if Hitler had succeeded in his plans no freedom . The main difference the jews and every other race he was trying to remove would still be around. So over all this bill is bullshit . It is denying given and stated rights and also infringing on our human rights so if total anarchy breaks out if it is passed i say first thing to be done is restore the internet some how or figure out a way to remove the blockers and then remove the politicians and i mean remove ALL of them . Also wouldn't anonymous that hacker group try to stop the restrictions even if the bill is passed?
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:iconkaijuguy19:
I've heard that SOPA is fastly losing support over this idea is this true? If so GREAT!!!! because this IS crossing the line!!! Don't those morans at the government relieze that the internet is the ONLY source of comunnication and fan art is purely for the purpose of expressingour love for these characters and how they mean to us!!! I won't be surprised if they don't! If they go with it all of that will be gone! Nobody will get to talk to each other and connect anymore! And there would be total anarchy! Didn't they take the hint from the Occupation?!?!
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~supergoji18 Nov 22, 2011  Student Traditional Artist
This is an absolute violation of the first amendment AND of human rights. We have a right to make fan art, fan fiction, and fan videos. It's not like we're profiting off of it. As such, we should be allowed to make all of the god damn fan fiction and god damn fan art that we want. If anything, corporations should be glad we're doing this. It's free advertisement for them. so why do they want to stop something that actually saves them money?
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:iconelectroshock1408:
I TOTALLY agree.
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:iconsupergoji18:
~supergoji18 Dec 19, 2011  Student Traditional Artist
i'm glad someone does.
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