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5/26/2011--Reported to Senate amended. Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act of 2011 or the PROTECT IP Act of 2011 - (Sec. 3) Authorizes the Attorney General (AG) to commence: (1) an in personam action against a registrant of a nondomestic domain name (NDN) used by an Internet site dedicated to infringing activities (ISDIA) or an owner or operator of an ISDIA accessed through an NDN; or (2) if such individuals are unable to be found by the AG or have no address within a U.S. judicial district, an in rem action (against a domain name itself, in lieu of such individuals) against the NDN used by an ISDIA. Defines ISDIA as a site that: (1) has no significant use other than engaging in or facilitating copyright infringement, circumventing technology controlling access to copyrighted works, or selling or promoting counterfeit goods or services; or (2) is designed, operated, or marketed and used to engage in such activities.
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As much as I’ve loved writing here for the last 7 years, if SOPA or any future incarnations of SOPA pass, I will have to shut down this blog. Here is why: SOPA doesn’t just completely miss the mark when it comes to making it harder for digital piracy to take place, it also basically puts the internet under Taliban rule. Call or email your representatives (or post to their wall on FB) and tell them not to vote in favor of the bill or any other bill that addresses online piracy in this way.
SOPA, PIPA and bills like them want to kill this blog. And yours. « The BrandBuilder Blog
Join Our Censorship Protest! — Blog — WordPress.com
Have you been paying attention to all the hubbub online about the proposed U.S. legislation (SOPA/PIPA) that threatens internet freedom? I wrote about it last week over on WordPress.org , but the gist is this: there’s a bill in the U.S. Senate that if passed would put publishing freedom severely at risk, and could shut down entire sites at the whim of media companies.
Is it possible that the United States government can start censoring the web similarly to the Chinese government? It is! Two bills exist in the US Congress that are gaining lots of support. The first bill is in the Senate and is called the Protect IP Act, the second, in the House is Stop Online Piracy Act.
Web Censorship in the USA?
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Wikipedia has pledged to go dark this Wednesday for 24 hours in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA). The blackout will begin at midnight on Wednesday and run all day, Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales confirmed on Twitter . It will be a global protest, but will only affect the English version of Wikipedia. The German site, however, will include a SOPA-related banner and "other languages will make their own decisions," Wales tweeted. According to comScore data, the English Wikipedia receives 25 million average daily visitors globally, though with the press that Wednesday's protest receives, that could jump to 30 to 40 million, Wales speculated today.
Wikipedia Also Going Dark Wednesday Over SOPA, PIPA | News & Opinion | PCMag.com
Patrick Joseph Leahy ( pronounced /ˈleɪhiː/ ; [ 1 ] born March 31, 1940) is the senior United States Senator from Vermont and member of the Democratic Party . He is the first and only elected Democratic Senator in Vermont's history . He is the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee .
