SOPA is postponed until further notice

From Mashable

Lamar Smith, the chief sponsor of SOPA, said on Friday that he is pulling the bill “until there is wider agreement on a solution.”

“I have heard from the critics and I take seriously their concerns regarding proposed legislation to address the problem of online piracy,” Smith (R-Texas) said. “It is clear that we need to revisit the approach on how best to address the problem of foreign thieves that steal and sell American inventions and products.”

It has begun: Megaupload is officially shut down, Owner arrested

Source

 One of the world’s most popular file-sharing sites was shut down, and its founder and several company officials were accused of facilitating millions of illegal downloads of films, music and other content.

A federal indictment Thursday accused Megaupload.com of costing copyright holders at least $500 million in lost revenue. The indictment was unsealed one day after websites including Wikipedia and Craigslist shut down in protest of two congressional proposals intended to make it easier for authorities to go after sites with pirated material, especially those with overseas headquarters and servers.

Guys, we shouldn’t be scared. I saw this post on 9gag which has this pic

SOPA Protests

Image courtesy of Internet-D

So what the fuck is SOPA? It’s practically a bill that threatens to empower the U.S. government to stop or take down sites that have certain copyright issues with them for those sites that are based in the U.S.

Why the fuck should you care? Well, wordpress, for instance, is based in the U.S. The same goes for Youtube, Yahoo, and yes, Google.

Want a better explanation? Here’s a link from one of the major websites that have already begun its protest. And I’m sure you use that site A LOT. Would you, a common user, want Wikipedia to VANISH?

Heck, even Google is preparing retaliation.

EVEN THE FATHER OF THE INTERNET IS AGAINST IT!

For those who frequent CNET, here’s their take on it.

As for me? The bill, as I’ve yet to read it myself, is really touching the very sensitive part of internet users. The bill, as many have stated, is quite vague with regards to what is copyrighted and what is to be censored.

And it could be anything.

Movie Review: Sherlock Holmes – A Game Of Shadows

Click to enlarge

This movie, in a nutshell, was just genius. I watched this just a few hours ago and I can’t wait to watch it again on my computer! My review (and sadly, spoilers) below.

Book Review: Lumayo Ka Nga Sa Akin by Bob Ong

Bob Ong's latest novel

Let’s start the year right: HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL OF YOU! I went out early this morning (0520) for a good round of jogging. It’s funny because I’m pretty sure the fireworks and all the banging kept me up until 0100 but my body still managed to wake up 20 minutes before the alarm went off (0420).

I guess my Circadian Rhythm never fails to be consistent with regards to having just enough sleep which usually ranges from 6-7 hours.

Now on with the review. In this article, I’ll be talking about the Filipino pop culture favorite’s new book.

Katy Perry will become single again!

SAUCE

British actor-comedian Russell Brand is divorcing “California Gurls” songstress Katy Perry after 14 months of what had appeared to be one of Hollywood’s happier marriages.

“Sadly, Katy and I are ending our marriage,” Brand said in a statement to The Associated Press on Friday. “I’ll always adore her and I know we’ll remain friends.”

WUZZAH! Katy cat is up for grabs again for us guys!

Something about me

Some things you kinda need to know about me:

I’m quite not aligned with the usual social conformity 95% of the world has often opted to do.

Like for example, whenever I have spare time (from work, sleeping, hanging out with friends, going to conventions/seminars, etc.), I don’t really watch too much TV (save for NGC, Discovery channel, CNN, BBC, some TV drama like HOUSE, Criminal minds, HBO, Starmovies, etc.) so it goes to show that I don’t really follow most popular TV series nowadays (and no, I won’t follow local for some reason you people might deem elitist if I wrote it here).

I mean, I get like 4 hours of TV a week and that happens on weekends when I simply want to lie in bed and flip a few channels.

So in my spare time, I’d rather be doing one of the things below:

1. Surf the web*
2. Read books
3. Exercise
4. Play video games
5. Fantasize what it would be like to date that certain someone you’ve been dying to ask out but couldn’t due to certain imperfections that I really have to iron out so as to not come out like a total loser and be friendzoned simply because she’s worth the effort of a Russian which amounts to 140%.*

*5 and 1 are interchangeable

Movie Review: An Education

A brilliant coming of age film

First things first:

Help yourself to some tidbits on what the movie’s about. Spoilers are abound,  though.

Wikipedia entry

IMDB site

Rotten Tomatoes reviews

The real reason I piqued an interest in this movie is due to my favorite English actress Carrey Mulligan starring in this film. Other reason was that I watched Never Let Me Go (link is to book review, I never wrote a film review which I just realized now >.<) before this film and I loved her acting there which also makes me a jerk for not watching this in 2009. I had to download this film the moment I saw that she was starring in it and how she garnered nominations for her role!

In any case, on with the review, shall we?

Damn.

Let me greet you guys a happy December first and foremost.

This is a sort of continuation of this post.

Okay, so here’s a little update from me on what’s been happening to my life. To be straightforward, I like someone at work. I don’t know why but my gut tells me I want to marry that girl if I could ever have the chance to date her.

I don’t know how to love properly

Just to let you guys know: I have issues when it comes to showing how I truly feel about a person.

Seriously. I acknowledge that very well. This is also the reason why I haven’t had a girlfriend in my entire life.

I once went to a website that sends people to hell (like Jigoku Shoujo) and wrote the name of my crush there. I even called her a slut.