COICA. The bill is supported by the Motion Picture Association of America, the U.S.
Chamber of Commerce, the Screen Actors Guild, Viacom, and the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts of the United States.[1] It is opposed by organizations and individuals such as Center for Democracy and Technology, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Demand Progress, the Distributed Computing Industry Association,[1] Tim Berners-Lee, the American Civil Liberties Union and Human Rights Watch.[2] Scope[edit] The COICA Internet Censorship and Copyright Bill. The "Stop Online Piracy Act"/"E-PARASITE Act" (SOPA), the "PROTECT IP Act" (PIPA), and the "Combating Online Infringement and Copyright Act" (COICA) were a series of bills promoted by Hollywood in the US Congress that would have a created a "blacklist" of censored websites.
These bills were defeated by an enormous online campaign started by EFF and a handful of other organizations, which culminated in the Internet Blackout on the 18th of January, 2012. Although the bills were ostensibly aimed at reaching foreign websites dedicated to providing illegal content, their provisions would allow for removal of enormous amounts of non-infringing content including political and other speech from the Web. The various bills defined different techniques for blocking “blacklisted” sites. Each would interfere with the Internet's domain name system (DNS), which translates names like "www.eff.org" or "www.nytimes.com" into the IP addresses that computers use to communicate. Sites COICA may take offline, and why.