Stop the SOPA

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AIbandit

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The SOPA will change the internet as we know it. It's not targeting copyright violators it's targeting search engines that return results of questionable websites.

It requires your ISP to scan every packet you transfer! IE Everything from passwords and credit card information to that picture of your junk you send to random women on facebook.

The DMC act required websites streaming user generated content to remove copyrighted material as soon as it was reported. The SOPA Makes them liable as soon as it's uploaded.

This effects websites like youtube, vimeo, photobucker,flickr,facebook.... The list goes on.

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:H.R.3261:
 
Typical .gov response - create a "solution" by going after the wrong end of the problem (just like the City is doing with their stupid "plastic bag law" here...)

Yah, I've got a draft letter that will be getting done and going out in the next couple of days or so... I've been watching SOPA for a couple of weeks now.
 
There is no way that the DOJ could enforce this bill. It would tie up our legal system more than it already has. It would make about 85% of all websites fall under the infringemnt laws in the bill. It would also cut the profits that most internet companies earn. It wojld effectively shutdown the internet in the USA... or maybe that is what the goal is.
 
1985xjlaredo said:
There is no way that the DOJ could enforce this bill. It would tie up our legal system more than it already has. It would make about 85% of all websites fall under the infringemnt laws in the bill. It would also cut the profits that most internet companies earn. It wojld effectively shutdown the internet in the USA... or maybe that is what the goal is.
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winner...

themud
 
That is very good news! Now if I could just get. Some research done on PIPA without staring at Pipa Middleton all day.
 
I really hope this goes away completely. If I wanted to live in China, I'd move there. I'm reminded of Arthur Miller's The Crucible when I think of the future of the internet under SOPA.
 
The doj doesnt have to enforce the sopa thing, sopa lets non government people enforce its rules. You can say 'oh, but the holocaust was illegal, it'll never happen'. This thing would be DONE AND OVER ALLREADY, if big companies like google and facebook werent against it... a few big corporations actually saved us on this one....


Shits a broken system....
 
For what it's worth godaddy (one of the leading supporters) is being boycotted due to their support. They already half ass reversed their position on it but didn't take their name off the list of official supporters, if you have any domains registered with them, consider transferring them to a better registrar asap.
 
kastein said:
For what it's worth godaddy (one of the leading supporters) is being boycotted due to their support. They already half ass reversed their position on it but didn't take their name off the list of official supporters, if you have any domains registered with them, consider transferring them to a better registrar asap.
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there's also rumors that godaddy is slowing up the transfer process so they can call you and beg for you not to transfer the domain.

They say that it's normal WHOIS traffic limitations.

The other registrars say that it's bullshit and they're blocking WHOIS to stop the DNS transfers.

not like it matters, all ICANN do is slap their peepee. Voting with your wallet seems to be having a massive effect though, I saw something like 70K domains transfered from godaddy on boycott day.
 
Well, here's a partial explanation of of the reason behind SOPA. Looks like Congress has to pas another law to prevent the law being broken by,..
..,congressmen.

http://boingboing.net/2011/12/27/us-house-of-representatives-i.html

The House, of course, has been mired in Internet controversy since Rep Lamar Smith introduced his Stop Online Piracy Act, which establishes a regime of national censorship in the name of fighting copyright infringement. So it is with some amusement that TorrentFreak points out that more than 800 of the IP addresses assigned to the House of Reps were involved in copyright infringement over BitTorrent, according to the YHD database.
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kastein said:
For what it's worth godaddy (one of the leading supporters) is being boycotted due to their support. They already half ass reversed their position on it but didn't take their name off the list of official supporters, if you have any domains registered with them, consider transferring them to a better registrar asap.
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I'd never really heard of GoDaddy - I've been with Register4Less for the last couple of years anyhow. They play nice, don't get in anyone's hair, and the bill is far more tolerable!
 
tbburg said:
Well, here's a partial explanation of of the reason behind SOPA. Looks like Congress has to pas another law to prevent the law being broken by,..
..,congressmen.

http://boingboing.net/2011/12/27/us-house-of-representatives-i.html
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I lol'd

I laugh when congressmen that are all 60+ years in age attempt to pass laws relating to the internet.

They're waaayyyy behind.
All SOPA will do is encourage a blacklist DNS registrar, which will be a disaster for the Internet, and the US interest in controlling it
 
good thing Obama won't back SOPA or PIPA... and they would never get the majority to overrule a veto.

crisis averted.


all hail the chosen one!
 
Really? So much faith in your president the very man that admitted the 2012 NDAA could allow him to arrest any citizen without evidence but instead of vetoing and making them fix it he promised not to use it and signed it anyway.
 
What scares me is what's coming, now that SOPA has been shelved at least temporarily.

What SOPA is trying to solve won't be done with legislation and/or punitive measures.
 
The DMCA has already allowed one major corporation to shutdown a small software company that I know of it was 100% unrelated to piracy! There code wasn't copied nothing was. Simply a judges misinterpretation of poorly written laws.

Imagine the damage SOPA or PIPA could do if it's already happening with DMCA. The SOPA is so generalized, atleast the DMCA is detailed enough that manipulation doesn't happen often.

The SOPA is only shelved until people forget it's there.
 
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