SOPA - PIPA

SOPA/PIPA have been shelved, but ACTA is even more freedom-restricting Sophie Pesetti February 15, 2012 Filed under Current Events SOPA and PIPA: you’ve probably heard of them by now. They have become famous on the internet for attempting to restrict our freedom, and censor websites. More light was shed on the two bills after the internet-wide blackout on Jan. 18. Amplifier : SOPA/PIPA have been shelved, but ACTA is even more freedom-restricting

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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. SOPA: Stop Online Piracy Act [Infographic]

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Over the last week, after SOPA and PIPA were put on life support, we've noticed an incredibly tone deaf response from the supporters of these bills, lashing out at the wrong parties and trying to figure out where to place the blame. The usual target has been "the tech industry," by which they usually mean "Google." That's why the MPAA's Chris Dodd wants to sit down with "tech companies" at the White House to discuss this. It's why the head of the movie theaters' lobbying group, NATO, brushes this whole thing off as Google "flexing" its muscles. Once More, With Feeling: It Wasn't Silicon Valley Or Google That Stopped SOPA/PIPA, It Was The Internet

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The first TV signals were beamed from the New York's World Fair in 1939, but it took until 1952 -- and arguably 1960 -- for television to make a difference in who we elected. The promise of the Internet to transform politics was hyped in its early days, but not until 2008 did one campaign, Barack Obama's, so thoroughly master the medium did it help decide a presidential election. And not until Wednesday's blackout did the Internet truly and finally bring its power to bear on the the problem of governance in Washington, D.C. -- leading to the demise of both the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act for the foreseeable future. Patrick Ruffini: Beyond SOPA: A New Birth of Internet Freedom

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SOPA, PIPA Opponents Prepare for Capitol Hill Piracy Showdown CIO CIO — Opponents of controversial anti-piracy legislation are gearing up for a major fight in both the House and the Senate as they press for support for an alternative bill they say would avoid draconian measures that, if enacted, could create major security vulnerabilities in the architecture of the Internet. The two lawmakers leading the charge, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), took to the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week to press their case — a fitting setting, as the mammoth trade show gives an annual coming out party for tech firms' latest innovations.

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News January 18, 2012 06:26 AM ET Computerworld - Mozilla, the open-source organization responsible for Firefox, joined other major technology companies today to protest anti-piracy legislation by blackening the browser's home page. From 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. ET, Firefox's default home page -- essentially a search field for Google -- will change from its usual white background with the Firefox logo to a blacked-out version displaying a modified graphic emblazoned with "Stop Censorship." Meanwhile, the English language versions of Mozilla's sites -- mozilla.com and mozilla.org -- will redirect visitors to an "action page" asking for their support in stopping what it called "Internet blacklist legislation." Mozilla, Firefox join anti-SOPA strike

So Wikipedia is unavailable today, and suddenly something seems wrong about the web. Where will you turn to to answer your daughter’s question about whether there was ever a 47-star U.S. flag? How will you help your son with his homework when it asks him to write a paragraph about the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act ? How will the internet community at large get by without its questionably sourced repository of all information both useful and utterly trivial? 5 Tips for Surviving Today's Wikipedia Blackout

CanadaDrugs.com Stands with other Canadian International Association Pharmacy Members (CIPA) Against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) Canada Drugs and other CIPA members, who together since 2002 have served as a safe source of affordable prescription medication for over a million American patients have announced that they will participate in the January 18 "internet blackout" to protest Congress' proposed anti-piracy legislation. CanadaDrugs.com website will display a "blackout banner" directing its customers to take action to protect their ability to order online discount prescription medication.

A preview of SOPA: Web shut down before my eyes Sysadmin blog On Saturday, 7 January, a Canadian DNS host named EasyDNS winked out of existence. This was a preview of what SOPA promises to be like . Suffering from a massive DDoS , all DNS services provided by EasyDNS simply ceased to function. Metacritic and DSL Reports are two examples of sites that affected me directly. Random but important elements of my virtual world - including all my personal and client domains - were shut down entirely without notice.

As I announced last week via twitter, The Gauntlet will be going dark tomorrow to protest SOPA/PIPA legislation. The Gauntlet - The Gauntlet to go dark to protest SOPA PIPA tomorrow

SOPA & PIPA: The Pirate Bay Worried About The Internet, Not Itself The Pirate Bay has long been the favored whipping boy of anti-piracy advocates everywhere. Attempts to block it have been made in many countries, and it is one of the sites that draws the most attention – and ire – in pro-SOPA/PIPA rhetoric. The Pirate Bay, so the argument goes, is exactly the kind of site SOPA and PIPA are designed to protect the entertainment industry from. The people who run The Pirate Bay say they aren’t worried, though.

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(RNN) - The author of the controversial SOPA bill, which seeks to introduce stricter penalties for companies and individuals caught violating copyright laws online, has been caught in his own web. An archived screen shot of the website of House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith, R-TX, shows a beautiful lush forest in the background. This stock image has been traced back to photographer DJ Schult , according to an article by Vice.com . The photographer protects his image under the Creative Commons license, which allows anyone to use an image as long as it is attributed to the photographer and not used for commercial purposes. But attribution for the forest image does not appear on Smith's website. If the congressman's proposed legislation were to pass, action could be taken against it. SOPA creator caught in own web - WTOL.com: News, Weather and Sport for Toledo, Ohio

This would literally be what you would see if SOPA passed. The porn industry and the free internet: two massive forces that simultaneously help and hinder each other in a sometimes-dysfunctional marriage of convenience. Tomorrow is a big day for both. January 18th is the opening day of AVN Adult Entertainment Expo , the porn trade show that for the first time in its history is not happening concurrently with CES . SOPA, PIPA, the AVN Expo and Porn! (Oh My)

SOPA, PIPA: What you need to know - Political Hotsheet Having trouble using Wikipedia today? That's because the popular crowd-sourced online encyclopedia is participating in an "Internet blackout" in protest of two controversial anti-piracy bills: The Stop Online Piracy Act ( SOPA ) and its Senate companion, the Protect IP Act ( PIPA ). Pictures: Websites go dark to protest SOPA The bills are intended to strengthen protections against copyright infringement and intellectual property theft, but Internet advocates say they would stifle expression on the World Wide Web. In essence, the legislation has pitted content providers -- like the music and film industries -- against Silicon Valley. CBS Corporation is among the media and entertainment companies that support the legislation.

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