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EDIT!: INTERNATIONALS! THIS IS NO LONGER JUST AN AMERICAN PROBLEM.
Okay, so I don't usually lobby, and these journals are for the group...but this is something that effects the group.
Congress is working on the 'Protect IP Act' or 'PiPa' and the Senate is working on 'Stop Online Piracy Act' or 'SOPA'. While in theory this is a good thing, in practice this can go very very wrong. The intention of these acts, if they make it to bills (Forbid...) is to help take down the spammers and pirates. Here's the thing though. It can actively block links and sites on not just the internet but even in your private emails and messages. It can block links you put to face book. And there's a clause in SOPA that could get you or I jailed for doing a cover of a song and posting it to Youtube or other such hosting site.
For those of you who don't know, SOPA and PIPA have been killed by voracious protesting on behalf of the American peoples. HOWEVER, the minds behind SOPA and PIPA have decided to take their show on the road INTERNATIONALLY. They've decided to backdoor their laws in WORLD WIDE by using trade agreements such as ACTA ([link]) and TPP ([link]). These innitial deals were done behind close doors where world activists were closed out and unable to make their cases.
Saturday, February 11 there will be protests against this live and in person the world over. See if there's any you care to join. It's not even necessary to go in person, there are programs online set up where you can protest just by sending an email.
This pertains to Roommates because, even though full credit is given and it is purely a work for fun not profit, this law threatens to make works of fan-art like this free game. As well as much of the rest of the site. This is a very real possibility. I'm not saying this to be all gloom and doom, but it's better to prevent it, than have to find out.
Contact your leaders and tell them that We're on the Barricade and They have no right to such power over us! Keep your hand at the level of your eye Corporate Dogs...best beware 'there be dragons' ready to see to it this goes down.
For Further Information and Where You Can Locate Protests and Sign Petitions: [link]
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