waran4

I never knew one could get creeped out by one's own creation... Or at least when envisioning how you want it to be like...

First the self-advertisement:
I've got a web page
GiphtBase.org.org

Then the feedback requesting:
I need feedback on about said page! It's rather bare as it is now... Also, if anyone has any outstanding opinions against me hosting those flash games that I just ripped off of Armorgames and Newgrounds, let me know.

Also, gimme some time to work out the mail server so that the feedback form on the "Contacts" page works. Atm, it just gives you an error since my ISP is blocking outgoing emails on port 25 and doesn't allow me to relay them through their SMTP server...
It's working now

Especially since it seems like a lot of people believe SOPA's meant for the US senate to grub money off of (which it probably is).

SOPA allows the US court to ban American web sites' DNS-entries. They would do so to any site using anything without written consent from the owner of the item/object/code/artwork in question. That would mean Wikipedia, Youtube, dA, facebook and any other site that allows users to post things in any way will have their rightful URL banned in America. Any web site outside of the US would have their URL blocked within US-controlled internet, meaning Ukrainian web sites containing pictures without an artist consent would be blocked from access to US web-users, while remaining open to non-US web-users. SOPA and PIPA only bans the DNS entries though, so you can still access a server through IP-addresses.

Also, PIPA would most likely mean that dA would have to pay the largest fine in Internet history ever known of, considering its aim is to prevent the spread of illegally distributed copies of artwork and the like, having the host (in this case dA) of said works pay the fine for hosting it, not the person who uploaded said work to the host. Think about all the art theft that's on about here at dA. Now think that that would account for barely 5% of that fine. Think of the amount of copyrighted characters, whether they be Edward or Naruto, being depicted illegally, without consent from the original creator, in every fangirl/-boy's fan art. Technically, anything in the "fan art" category would account for this fine dA would have to pay. I can safely bet that roughly 80% of dA's total userbase (80% because of the amount of inactive users with 0 deviations) have posted at least 1 deviation depicting or describing a copyrighted character, item, object or place. I know of at least 46 deviations of mine that does

My ma's off to Brazil (she left on Tuesday), and my dad's taking care of our dog.
Why's this neat? I'm home alone. Until January 3.

I just heard about this, but it seems it's been going on for about a month now: Norway's out of butter to such as extent the Thai are mocking us, articles about our largest diary-product producer are on the front page of our largest newspaper (and definitely more than just that one) and it's actually hard to find butter in the convenience store...