BasilZero said:
Mr Khan said:
Lord Ciansworth said:
Why is there so much opposition to the SOPA bill? I must admit, I'm not hugely familiar with it? |
1. US Copyright holders (i.e. major corporations) are allowed to petition the Justice Department to direct Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to block websites they feel infringe upon their copyright. Not to dismantle the sites themselves, but merely to block them from USA access
2. ISPs will be required by law to do deep packet investigation of all upstream or downstream internet information
3. Any infringing activity will be criminally punishable
Now, not much sounds bad on the surface (though point 2 is worthy of alarm), but this means that websites all the world over are going to have to take strict measures to eliminate all use of non-approved material, or else they will be hunted down and banned from USA access, so even major international sites will have to follow these rules. Like that picture of the Atari 2600 in your avatar there? You take that stolen property of the Atari corporation away you dirty thief, or else VGChartz could be banned from US markets.
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Nicely put and you actually made it seem like it sounded worse as it is xD!
Google is against this notion though from what I hear mostly because Youtube will be heavily affected if SOPA passes.
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This has me the most worried. Even now I have random "I never heard of this vaporware companies" saying they own my videos putting advertisements in them, still in a battle with one of them currently (been 2 months and they still won't let go).
I do have all 96 vids on my harddrive if they ever get deleted, but my god if this bill passes YouTube is as good as dead.
