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SOPA: Stop Online Piracy Act [Infographic]
The internet like the universe could be beyond what we can imagine, making it impossible to impose necessary boundaries for policies for everyone of us to follow. However, if SOPA(Stop Online Piracy Act) a bill that has been introduced in the US House of Representatives will be approved by the government it will impose specific policies for usage and sharing contents in the internet. SOPA will give the US government and copyright holder to seek court orders against websites that traffic in infringing, pirated and counterfeited intellectual property. Learn more after the break. Source: Business Insurance Blog <p style="text-align:right;color:#A8A8A8"></p>
Part Three of the book is titled “Democracy’s Challenges.” At the end of Chapter 7, dealing with copyright enforcement and free speech, I conclude: It is a moral imperative for democracies to find new and innovative ways to protect copyright in the Internet age without stifling the ability of citizens around the world to exercise their right to freedom of speech, access information they need to make intelligent voting decisions, and use the Internet and mobile technologies to organize for political change. Balanced, citizen-centric solutions will require innovation, creativity, and compromise. Sadly, the elected leaders of the world’s oldest democracies are disappointing the people who could most use their help by demonstrating very little enlightened leadership and a great deal of short-term self-interest.
Consent of the Networked
Don't Break the Internet - Stanford Law Review
Two bills now pending in Congress—the PROTECT IP Act of 2011 (Protect IP) in the Senate and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House—represent the latest legislative attempts to address a serious global problem: large-scale online copyright and trademark infringement. Although the bills differ in certain respects, they share an underlying approach and an enforcement philosophy that pose grave constitutional problems and that could have potentially disastrous consequences for the stability and security of the Internet’s addressing system, for the principle of interconnectivity that has helped drive the Internet’s extraordinary growth, and for free expression. To begin with, the bills represent an unprecedented, legally sanctioned assault on the Internet’s critical technical infrastructure. Based upon nothing more than an application by a federal prosecutor alleging that a foreign website is “dedicated to infringing activities,” Protect IP authorizes courts to order all U.S.
If you critique SOPA, read the text. If you read the text, read it right.
Earlier this week Eriq Gardner speculated in a tweet that less than one tenth of one percent of folks have actually read the SOPA legislation. I bet he’s right. It’s good to read the statute. But what might be worse than not reading it is reading it wrongly and thereafter propagating misunderstanding. One of the motifs that has permeated the SOPA discussion is this idea that evil (usually corporate) interests could shut down entire, innocent sites based on one piece of user generated content on that site that is, or links to, infringing material. Some commentators, such as the usually astute Khan Academy in the video embedded below, have gone so far as to say that one little transgression by one user could bring down all of Facebook, YouTube, or Vimeo.
SOPA explained: What it is and why it matters - Jan. 17
SOPA's backers say the sweeping anti-piracy bill is needed to squash sites like The Pirate Bay (left), but the tech industry says the bill is rife with unintended consequences. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- The tech industry is abuzz about SOPA and PIPA, a pair of anti-piracy bills. Here's why they're controversial, and how they would change the digital landscape if they became law.PIPA/SOPA and Why You Should Care | Mitchell
Congress is considering the most talked-about copyright legislation in a decade, known as Protect IP (PIPA) in the Senate and Stop Online Piracy (SOPA) in the House.
PIPA, SOPA and OPEN Act Quick Reference Guide | District Dispatch
The last month or so has seen a flurry of anti-piracy, online infringing, copyright-related bills. The latest newcomer is the Online Protection and Enforcement of Digital Trade Act or OPEN Act ( S. 2029 ). Introduced on December 17, 2011 by Sen.Revised 'Net censorship bill requires search engines to block sites, too
Surprise! After months in the oven, the soon-to-be-released new version of a major US Internet censorship bill didn't shrink in scope—it got much broader. Under the new proposal, search engines, Internet providers, credit card companies, and ad networks would all have cut off access to foreign "rogue sites"—and such court orders would not be limited to the government. Private rightsholders could go to court and target foreign domains, too. As for sites which simply change their domain name slightly after being targeted, the new bill will let the government and private parties bring quick action against each new variation.
Will 2012 see the end of the internet as we know it? The House Judiciary committee tried to finalize the Stop Online Piracy Act (Sopa) before Christmas for a vote early next year. But fierce opposition – much of it online – seems to have given pause to the bill's main author, Lamar Smith.
Explainer: understanding Sopa | World news
If you follow tech news, you've likely heard about the Stop Online Piracy (H.R. 3261) and Protect IP Acts (S. 968) by now. The press coverage has been overwhelming, as have the grassroots efforts to get Congress to reject these bills, otherwise known as SOPA and PIPA . For those who are considering contacting their Representatives about the bills—or for those who have general questions—we’re bringing back the "Ask CDT" series for a special installment on SOPA and PIPA .
Ask CDT: SOPA and PIPA
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Image from technutnews.com With two whole weeks left to spare in 2011 (procrastinate much?), Congress finally finished its deliberations on the FY12 budget. The nearly one trillion dollar appropriations bill is now making its way to the President for his signature. While the maximum Pell grant was maintained, it’s hard to see the continual whittling away of benefits as a victory for students (see Steve Burd’s take on the “thoughtless” approach here ). There was, however, a quiet and significant victory for students in the final bill.John Palfrey » Blog Archive » SOPA and our 2010 Circumvention Study
Daniel Castro of The Information Technology & Innovation Fund recently published a paper supporting the Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA) currently being debated in congress.Alexander Howard - Google+ - A Status Update on SOPA from Washington A colleague just…
A Status Update on SOPA from Washington A colleague just asked me for a crash course on the Stop Online Privacy Act. I sent them my feature: http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/11/sopa-protectip.htmlWe've discussed many times how the censorship provisions of SOPA and PIPA require US companies to set up a system that is technically identical to internet censorship systems in countries like China and Iran. This always upsets supporters of these bills, because they prefer to focus solely on what's being censored , with the argument being that as long as the target of the censorship is infringement, rather than, say, political speech, it's okay. I've had two different arguments for why that line of thinking is ridiculous. First, while the bill may target infringing works, it will, without doubt, end up censoring tons of non-infringing works, as with the Dajaz1 seizure . The second point is that countries have a history of censoring political speech under the guise of copyright law .