What is SOPA, and why should you care? (MyGaming column)
We take a look at the Stop Online Piracy Act, and why everyone is freaking out about it
What is SOPA, and why should you care? (MyGaming column)
What is SOPA, and why should you care? (MyGaming column)
We take a look at the Stop Online Piracy Act, and why everyone is freaking out about it
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There is also a FB event for tuesday, I've send all my friends an invite.
https://www.facebook.com/events/232028526874851/
I've heard a couple of sites are shutting down on the 18th to protest the bill - Reddit being one ... but I honestly think major sites should do it as well.
So - Google, Yahoo, Bing, Facebook, Twitter - just those five alone would be apocalypse for the billions of people online. Maybe that's what the Mayans were on about.
It would also be a bonus off-day for me, because I wouldn't be able to do any work
SOPA has been shelfed already
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/pol...helf034765.php
Streamers from the HoN/LoL and DOTA2 community will also be affected. If they play the wrong song in the backround or alt+tab to a copyrighted image or video they can go to jail...
It's not really down and out though - it's more a case of the White House itself voicing opposition. I suppose Obama could technically veto any vote, but I've got no idea how US politics operates. But it come back at any point down the line, since the SOPA author is still dead-set on getting it through the voting process.Originally Posted by _Caboose_
Much like our secrecy bill - it's not going to just go away.
As long as this bill is kept tied up in the us congress it could be years, decades even before its rehashed. Much like their bill to ban assault weapons. Its also going to be used as a political tool for the up coming us elections. The Obama administration saying "nay" is just them trying to get the majority of people who are opposed to the bill behind them.
Um....how is the United States going to be able to tell other countries what they may or may not do with servers within their borders-or am I not understanding this correctly?
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Monkey See, Monkey Do. Once the US does it, and gets away with it, other countries will follow suit. It will follow the same patern as the anti-government protests. One country does it, it works, then the next & the next and the next. Spain has already passed a similar bill but since they are small fry it doesn't get the same publicity as the US one. And what about China...
It's a case of the goverment giving to and enforcing orders that sites that host/share copyrighted content are blocked via an international firewall, similar to what China does. So, for instance, if you run a blog and you decide to review a movie, and have images that the producer decides violates his copyright, he can ask the powers that be to block an American audience from seeing your site.
It won't be a trainsmash if you have only local readership, but in the case of a blog that receives a majority of its visits from the US it could be a bit of damn disaster.
The wording is also very broad, and could result in international sites that get a lot of US business to lose money if someone decides to block the site.
Again, very much along the same lines as our infamous secrecy bill. Pretty much amounts to internet censorship. Like what China does. And even India is considering.
