CISPA / TPP / ACTA / SOPA / PIPA / COICA. Take a Stand Against Online Censorship on Vimeo Staff Blog. What’s the difference between SOPA and PIPA? I decided to put my slightly-dormant internet policy research skillz to work to figure this out. It was surprisingly difficult. Most stop PIPA/SOPA websites conflate them– but they are different. (Note: The best resource was an article I found at Area 51 Technologies.) #1: SOPA’s a House bill, PIPA is a Senate bill.SOPA = House of RepresentativesPIPA = Senate The Senate tends to be older and more conservative than the House, meaning that it’s more likely to be completely clueless about the internet.
That’s not good. #2: PIPA has a greater chance of passing. SOPA has gotten so much guff that it’s temporarily off the table. . #3: They are essentially the same “anti-piracy” bill, but with a few different provisions. Both PIPA and SOPA focus on “foreign rogue websites” (e.g. the Pirate Bay, Wikileaks) that facilitate piracy.
PIPA does NOT have a provision that requires search engines to remove these “foreign infringing site[s]” from their indexes. . #4: They both require DNS blocking. Like this: SOPA. SOPA Track - Check How Congress Votes on SOPA! SOPA & citizenship in a digital age. You could call Internet users “citizen lobbyists.” This week, in a post-Arab Spring sign of how participatory media – and its participants – are powerfully changing things, they successfully went head-to-head with some powerful forces and won. Christopher Dodd, the head of the film industry trade group that lobbied and failed to push through the Stop Online Piracy Act (along with the US Chamber of Commerce and the recording industry) said that “no Washington player can safely assume that a well-wired, heavily financed legislative program is safe from a sudden burst of Web-driven populism,” according to the New York Times.
“The startlingly speedy collapse of the antipiracy campaign by some of Washington’s savviest players … signaled deep changes in antipiracy lobbying in the future.” So it’s an understatement to say that it feels like this year will be a watershed, the way it has started out. “Citizen regulators” next What about our growing power? Related links. SOPA - Stop Online Purity Advocates. SOPA 2.0: Why the Fight for Internet Freedom Is Far From Over. Is the fight over the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) over? Not even close, according to Internet law expert Lawrence Lessig. Lessig is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School and director of the Edmond J.
Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. According to Lessig, the battle over SOPA may have been won, but the war's far from over. Lessig will be speaking at Mashable Connect this May about the continuing battle for Internet freedom in a post-SOPA world. Q&A With Internet Law Expert Lawrence Lessig Is SOPA really “dead?” I think that particular statute’s dead, but the issues and the idea will revive themselves in some other statute. That means that if it’s going to come back, it’ll be in a different form. What kind of another form? A child pornography bill is always good, or it might be a reform act or dropped into a budget act.
Why haven’t we seen anti-ACTA protests in the U.S. the way we see them in Europe and how we saw them here with SOPA? SOPA / PIPA. SOPA PIPA Internet Censorship. SOPA - PIPA. SOPA, PIPA Stalled: Meet the OPEN Act. SOPA and PIPA may have been put on hold -- thanks to possibly the most contentious uproar seen on Capitol Hill and in the tech world ever -- but other legislation was introduced this week to combat online piracy.
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-California) introduced H.R. 3782, the Online Protection and Enforcement of Digital Trade Act in the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday, the same day as an Internet protest when a number of high-profile websites such as Wikipedia went dark. Issa says the new bill delivers stronger intellectual property rights for American artists and innovators while protecting the openness of the Internet. Senator Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) has introduced the OPEN Act in the U.S. OPEN would give oversight to the International Trade Commission (ITC) instead of the Justice Department, focuses on foreign-based websites, includes an appeals process, and would apply only to websites that "willfully" promote copyright violation.
What is ACTA and why it's a problem. ACTA.