It's come to my attention that the threat to the internet is not over yet. Yes, we've stopped SOPA and PIPA. But the problem is, there's ACTA out there, and it's possibly the most threatening thing you can find.

What it does, and how it affects us

ACTA is a treaty between nations that will allow them all to have all ISP's monitor ALL information going through the internet. Everything will be …

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I'm sure most of the Americans here are familiar with bills such as the S.978 bill (which more or less prevents everyone but major gaming companies to publish walkthroughs and reviews of games) that the government's been trying to pass.

Well, they've taken it one step further, and honestly, if I had my way, the people who came up with this bullshit would be banned from Congress forever. But of …

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Edit: Fuck it, no video embedding, PERIOD. It causes way too much lag. I just spent several minutes fighting with an unresponsive Flash process because it was overloaded with embedded videos.

Embedding videos will now lead to an instant 24 hour ban.

(If you can guess what it is, you get 100 Danmaku Tokens.)

EDIT: *looks up* HOLY SHIT 666

Best post ever.

DOUBLEEDIT: Alternate counter:



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You can now use the following code to add a userbar to signatures everywhere!

Code:

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I've decided that you guys may start your own level threads, as I simply don't have the time to make them myself.

Just keep in mind that I'll be keeping an eye on the forum to make sure no crap threads get started.

New chatbox. You can find it [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]. (NOTE: You automatically connect to irc.caffie.net as Aurorusxxxx, where the x's are random numbers. To join the chatroom, type /join #aurorus.)

These forums don't work very well on Internet Explorer, so if you use that, you should really switch to an actually decent browser, like Chrome or Firefox. (There's a reason Internet Explorer is often referred to as Internet Exploder.)

Just a suggestion, not mandatory.

EDIT: To add more incentive, the favicon doesn't work correctly on Internet Explorer. It just shows the default Forumotion …

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ABOUT HALF AN HOUR LATER...

Done!