SOPA. PIPA. SOPA & PIPA walkthrough. As you have probably heard, there are two pieces of legislation currently pending that we, and others like us, believe seriously threaten the internet. I wanted to take some time to delve into the text of both of these bills, and outline their potential consequences as I am able to understand them. As you can imagine, this is a complex issue, and as a result this is going to be a complex post. I highly encourage you to set some time aside to read this thoroughly. Grab some caffeine, we are going to be here for a while. As a disclaimer, I am not a lawyer, I'm a sysadmin. Note: In recent news, several legislators have suggested that they will be removing the DNS provisions from both SOPA and PROTECT IP.
The Sacred Texts Much of this post will be focusing on Title 1, Sections 101, 102, and 103 of SOPA; and Sections 2, 3, and 4 of PROTECT IP. The Battlefields One of the most important distinctions in these bills is the difference between a 'foreign site' and a 'domestic site'. The Players 1. Useful definitions of technical terms. If you look at tech blogs or most any technology-related website these days you will see people ranting against two major pieces of legislation that are on the table in American congress – the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act, Protect IP Act (PIPA) for short.
These are two of the pieces of legislation that the House of Representatives (SOPA) and the Senate (PIPA) are working on pushing through as laws to combat piracy/copyright infringement on the Internet. My opinion and SingleHop’s position is that these laws would be harmful to the Internet in general and frankly toxic and highly detrimental to the Internet infrastructure itself, which is contributing more than $45 billion to the U.S. economy annually. Some terminology defined so that things are easier to understand: DNS servers are groups of servers that are the equivalent of the yellow pages of the Internet.
Now for the bills. Sources: Difference between SOPA & PIPA. Both the Stop Online Privacy Act and Protect IP Act bills are aimed at stopping illegal downloading and other forms of web piracy, but here's four things that distinguish the two from one another: 1. Who will be voting on them: SOPA arose out of the U.S. House of Representatives, while the U.S. Senate is behind PIPA. The Republican-led House has different prevailing views on web privacy than does the Democratic Senate. SOPA is slated to return to markup by the House Judiciary Committee next month, while the Senate is slated to hold a procedural vote to begin debate on PIPA Jan. 24. 3. 2. 4. Semi-good walkthrough. 136inShare Jump To Close I walk by a pretty good bootleg DVD stand a few times a month — the proprietor sets up at irregular intervals in Union Square just a few blocks away from The Verge offices in New York.
Instead of just offering up ripped DVDs with handwritten titles in paper sleeves, he sells meticulous copies of the entire package from sleeve to disc label, and there are a few legitimate used DVDs thrown in for flavor. If not for the suspiciously low prices and the occasional printing error, you might not ever know the entire operation was operating in brazen defiance of the law. Stands like these are an important touchpoint when you read or hear about the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA, and its sister bill in the Senate, the Protect IP Act, or PIPA. Let's dig in. What SOPA and PIPA do Here's what the government can do to foreign websites under even the most narrow reading of SOPA section 102 and PIPA section 3: That's just the first part.
Oh, but it gets worse. Section TOC Title.