[GUIDE] What is SOPA? (and how it can make us sad)

[itsjuaum]

SOPA - Stop Online Piracy Act

The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is a United States bill introduced by U.S. Representative Lamar S. Smith (R-TX) to expand the ability of U.S. law enforcement to fight online trafficking in copyrighted intellectual property and counterfeit goods. Provisions include the requesting of court orders to bar advertising networks and payment facilities from conducting business with infringing websites, and search engines from linking to the sites, and court orders requiring Internet service providers to block access to the sites. The law would expand existing criminal laws to include unauthorized streaming of copyright material, imposing a maximum penalty of five years in prison.

Basically the law want to stop downloads of the things that could / should be purchased and all the websites that do not agree with the law (Google, Wikipedia, Facebook, Twitter,etc).

So we won't be able to watch our tv shows, movies, download games or make everything cool that we want on the internet

I've searching for a thread like this and I didn't found it, i think its important, and YOU agree with the law or not?

PS.: I don't know if i'm on the right section :x

[I_royalty_I]

There is much more to it than just that.

But I am definitely against it.

Look around and read more about it.
The big companies are not against it just because of the above mentioned. It bypasses due process and goes against a few other things we have had in place FOREVERRR.

I doubt it would pass. If it does, all hell will break loose.
The internet isn't THEIRS to control. And nobody wants the govt sticking their hands where they don't belong.
It would be very interesting to see this pass, but I highly doubt it would.

[bamag]

This should probably be in the debates section, seeing as this isn't a guide lol. Anyways I disagree with SOPA and PIPA and the like but they are pretty much dead at the moment. The Protect Children from Internet Pornographers Act is worse than SOPA in my opinion.. They want to force ISPs to log pretty much everything, including credit card info and other private stuff. They're trying to pass this bill under the pretense of protecting children. Like Representative Zoe Lofgren said, they should rename the bill the "Keep Every American's Digital Data for Submission to the Federal Government Without a Warrant Act." And surprise surprise, bill was proposed by everyone's favorite congressman, Lamar Smith.

[I_royalty_I]

This should probably be in the debates section, seeing as this isn't a guide lol. Anyways I disagree with SOPA and PIPA and the like but they are pretty much dead at the moment. The Protect Children from Internet Pornographers Act is worse than SOPA in my opinion.. They want to force ISPs to log pretty much everything, including credit card info and other private stuff. They're trying to pass this bill under the pretense of protecting children. Like Representative Zoe Lofgren said, they should rename the bill the "Keep Every American's Digital Data for Submission to the Federal Government Without a Warrant Act." And surprise surprise, bill was proposed by everyone's favorite congressman, Lamar Smith.

Yup, they try to pass shit off and include details in the fine fine print.
Like with the no child left behind act.
It did all the things they bragged but it also gave all the armed forces recruiters ALL the info on students....part of the reason they would call all the time xD
I still fucking get calls "Hello, I understand you are a senior at xxxxxxxxxx high school?" -no im a junior in college thanks bye.-

[Crayon]

SOPA is such a horrible, poorly thought out idea. It will never pass, because americans hate change... Plus, SOPA and PIPA are against our constitutional rights

[itsjuaum]

If SOPA continue, is better to us stop paying the internet, cuz will left nothing to do on the internet lol

[I_royalty_I]

If SOPA continue, is better to us stop paying the internet, cuz will left nothing to do on the internet lol

Nah, there will still be plenty to do.
You just won't be able to download things that violate copyright infringement. :P

[itsjuaum]

Nah, there will still be plenty to do.
You just won't be able to download things that violate copyright infringement. :P

but facebook will be closed and google will lose 30% of the content :(

[I_royalty_I]

but facebook will be closed and google will lose 30% of the content :(

I guess that depends on what youre addicted to lol
I would really even care too much is facebook closed.
And I probably wouldn't notice if google lost 30% of their content either.

Plus, there will always be ways around it. Somebody will make a new kinda facebook and host it somewhere else. Or maybe a site with all the blocked google content :P

[j03]

I heard it didn't pass like a week ago........................??

[Shichibukai]

I think the decision got postponed

[itsjuaum]

I heard it didn't pass like a week ago........................??

the law is back and now all the file sharing sites are closing by FBI :(

[j03]

^I read it had nothing to do with SOPA, actually they have been on their ass for quite some time now..

[Victoria]

[Only registered and activated users can see links] < if you read that it will inform you on whats going on (: but that has nothing to do with SOPA, but it did make people realize shit is being done even without SOPA being passed, so i see no purpose of having it in effect if the FBI can take care of it lol

[bamag]

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The internet's two greatest threats :( Its a shame they haven't gotten the publicity of SOPA and PIPA.
ACTA has been signed by the US, the EU, and many nations already..

[itsjuaum]

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The internet's two greatest threats :( Its a shame they haven't gotten the publicity of SOPA and PIPA.
ACTA has been signed by the US, the EU, and many nations already..

didn't understood what both laws want :O

[bamag]

itsjuaum
For the first one, internet service provider has to log all internet traffic including credit cards under the pretense of stopping child pornography.. Basically it takes away all your online privacy.

"[ACTA] would also facilitate privacy violations by trademark and copyright holders against private citizens suspected of infringement activities without any sort of legal due process".
ACTA would also require that existing ISPs no longer host free software that can access copyrighted media; this would substantially affect many sites that offer free software or host software projects such as SourceForge. Specifically, the FSF argues that ACTA will make it more difficult and expensive to distribute free software via file sharing and P2P technologies like BitTorrent, which are currently used to distribute large amounts of free software. The FSF also argues that ACTA will make it harder for users of free operating systems to play non-free media because DRM protected media would not be legally playable with free software.[10]

They're both breaches of civil liberties..

I found this interesting:
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Polish parliament protesting ACTA :$
Poland is having a SOPA styled blackout protesting ACTA. Its a shame this issue hasn't gained much recognition..

[zyocuh]

Sopa is really really sad I dont understand why they are trying to get this passed so much.

[itsjuaum]

bamag

OMG the first one is really really badddd, more than SOPA.

[Emiley]

I never even heard of ACTA till now, but I have heard of SOPA.

[zxzero]

The media will just use scare tactics like the computers will rape your kids if you let them watch movies that are owned by pirates online. xD Not exactly that but they will come up with something stupidly clever and sell the people on it like usual.

I am against this, this is just another way to keep an eye on and control what everyone is doing.

Here is a video from 1948 that shows what is happening to our present day world. I wonder why you don't see educational stuff like this on
television any more. :rolleyes:

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[ConnorJS]

Yeah SOPA is gone (thank god) but ACTA is very much still here...
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[loucamente]

Internet would be tedious...
The one place that we aren't controlled...