Best article I've seen on SOPA

Posted by Eric Kidd Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:29:00 GMT

Wikipedia, Google and many other internet sites are protesting PIPA and SOPA today. But their official explanations don’t include very many details about the actual legislation.

If you’d like to learn more, check out this excellent background piece by a freelance film editor.

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  1. reachschools.org said about 9 hours later:

    It is useful.thanks

  2. Jason Scott said 1 day later:

    This is the best article I’ve seen too. Being in online marketing, I’ve been trying to get to the bottom of this for a little while. In my line of work this has been an annoyance, however I respect and understand the reason this is being done.

  3. jyotdeep said 2 days later:

    Hire ASP.NET Developers liked your post.thanks for sharing

  4. http://www.addvalue.com.au said 2 days later:

    If you hadn’t heard of SOPA before, you probably have by now: Some of the internet’s most influential sites—Reddit and Wikipedia among them—are going dark to protest the much-maligned anti-piracy bill. But other than being a very bad thing, what is SOPA? And what will it mean for you if it passes?

  5. http://www.addvalue.com.au said 2 days later:

    Perhaps the most galling thing about SOPA in its original construction is that it let IP owners take these actions without a single court appearance or judicial sign-off. All it required was a single letter claiming a “good faith belief” that the target site has infringed on its content. Once Google or PayPal or whoever received the quarantine notice, they would have five days to either abide or to challenge the claim in court. Rights holders still have the power to request that kind of blockade, but in the most recent version of the bill the five day window has softened, and companies now would need the court’s permission.

    The language in SOPA implies that it’s aimed squarely at foreign offenders; that’s why it focuses on cutting off sources of funding and traffic (generally US-based) rather than directly attacking a targeted site (which is outside of US legal jurisdiction) directly. But that’s just part of it.

  6. Daniel said 3 days later:

    Yah, I saw on Wiki that they blacked out the site for a day in protest of PIPA and SOPA, and honestly, I hadn’t heard about it before then!

  7. teddy said 4 days later:

    Thanks for the link. That makes it a little more understandable and easier to NOT support.

  8. Idol lash said 4 days later:

    Good discussing such great information by us actually appreciate every element that you’ve done here with am happy to know that you really proper value our planet that we stay in.

  9. Step by Step said 4 days later:

    Thanks for sharing this useful resource,really PIPA and SOPA is just worst and if it will applied then who web scenario will be changed.

    Regards,

    Amelie Wakelin

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