sopa

SOPA is an acronym used for the Stop Online Piracy Act, which is a new bill that was introduced to the House of Representatives of the United States Congress on October 26, 2011. The bill was introduced by Lamar S. Smith, and a group of 12 other bipartisan congressmen.

Also known as the Internet Piracy Bill, SOPA threatens to substantially diminish the rights of internet users to link to or post copyrighted material. This is done by essentially expanding the ability of United States law enforcement to fight against online trafficking of intellectual property and counterfeit goods.

According to SOPA, unauthorized streaming of copyrighted materials would become a crime with a maximum penalty of 5 years in prison, whilst internet services which act against streaming or trafficking websites can receive legal immunity.

Supporters claim that this bill protects revenues for content creators, as well as jobs within their industry. However, opponents say that the bill constitutes a form of internet censorship and would allow for other abuses, including threatening free speech and infringing on First Amendment rights.

You'll find bloggers talking about SOPA at sites like blog.supportsopa.org and readwriteweb.com.

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Original Technorati articles tagged “sopa”

• in Technology
  Google's Sergey Brin Talks About Threats On Internet Freedom
  Sergey Brin Expresses Dismay On Facebook, China And Iran
  by joshner / on Apr 26, 2012
• in Business
  Copyright vs. Copywrong? The Case for SOPA
  Used to be that piracy was considered stealing. But it seems that consumers expect something for nothing nowadays. The 2012 revolution is less about free love and more about free multi-media.
  by lleontiades / on Apr 8, 2012
• in Cloud Computing
  Pirate Bay's Futuristic Airborne Server System Pie in the Sky?
  Peer-to-peer file sharing service Pirate Bay, in an attempt to avoid future SOPA-style legal action, look to the skies for answers.
  by dopodomani / on Mar 23, 2012

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “sopa”

 

• ‘Privacy Is Awesome’ Campaign Aims to Kill CISPA

  
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  Fight for the Future, a nonprofit with the self-described goal of protecting the Internet, has launched an informational campaign designed to kill off the Cyber Information Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) once and for all. The campaign, called “Privacy is Awesome,” says that CISPA’s been tucked into the ...
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• Google faced with a million requests a month to remove copyright searches

  
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  http://www.guardian.co.uk Google faced with a million requests a month to remove copyright searches Figures from Google’s transparency report reveal huge increase on 2009 as growth comes from rise in ‘enforcement vendors’Google is receiving more than a million requests a month from copyright owners ...
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• Google takes down 1.2 million search links a month over piracy, copyright issues

  
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  Google today released a new picture of the millions of links it scrubs from its search results in response to requests from Microsoft, movie studios and other content owners. In a reflection of the evolving nature of anti-piracy enforcement, the company revealed that it takes down 250,000 search links each week over ...
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• Google faced with a million requests a month to remove copyright searches

  
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  Figures from Googles transparency report reveal huge increase on 2009 as growth comes from rise in enforcement vendors Google is receiving more than a million requests a month from copyright owners seeking to pull their content from the companys search results, the web giant has revealed. The number requests has ...
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• Geek News: Senator Ron Wyden Slams Cybersecurity Legislation Proposals For Eroding Trust & Privacy

  
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  We killed SOPA/PIPA, but now theres CISPA with its assault on privacy.  Check out what Senator Wyden (D-Oregon) has to say : "CISPA is an example of what not to do."  Again: Privacy should be the default, not the exception.  Remember this ?
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  Michael Geist (@mgeist), a Canadian hero, is giving at talk at Mesh. NOTE: Live-blogging. Getting things wrong. Missing points. Omitting key information. Introducing artificial choppiness. Over-emphasizing small matters. Paraphrasing badly. Not running a spellpchecker. Mangling other people’s ideas and words. ...
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• Crowdfunded Billboards Warn SOPA Sponsor Not To Mess With The Internet

  
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  Internet users have a wide variety of opinions on politics, but one thing united them: the proposed SOPA and PIPA laws in the U.S. Congress that would have amounted to censorship of the Internet. One of the groups opposing the law, Fight for the Future, has erected billboards reading “Don’t mess ... Continue ...
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• What SOPA Means for Affiliate Marketing’s Future – By Brook Schaaf

  
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  In dramatic and unprecedented fashion, Google, Wikipedia, WordPress and other major internet properties went dark or otherwise protested the bipartisan Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) on January 18. This opposition coalition, which included affiliate marketers, succeeded in making SOPA politically toxic in the near ...
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• Sorry, You Can’t Post That on Facebook

  
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  Automated Post Censorship on Facebook   You may have noticed some strange things happening on Facebook. Every now and then, posts will magically disappear…..and then sometimes reappear after you re-posted it 2 or 3 more times trying to figure out why it isn’t showing up. This seems to be just a glitch in their ...
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• Crowd Funded Anti-SOPA billboard erected outside SOPA Sponsors offices.

  
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  In the aftermath of the whole SOPA debacle – in which hundreds of websites (this one included) blacked out in  a record-breaking act of solidarity – FightfortheFuture.org decided to seal the deal, and send SOPA sponsor Lamar Smith a very clear message: SOPA sponsor Lamar Smith came close to destroying the ...
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• Messin with Lamar Smith, Revisited

  
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• SOPA fighters handily fund billboard outside Lamar Smiths office

  
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  Holmes sez, "A crowd-funded, Texan-themed billboard for Lamar Smith (R-TX) is currently emblazoned across the Texas sky. The billboard says Dont Mess with the Internet, and it just took flight this morning right outside the San Antonio offices of SOPA-sponsor Lamar Smith. The crowdfunding campaign went so well that in ...
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• Obama is accustomed to violating the rights of others. Violating religiousliberty is not a problem...

  
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  Obama is accustomed to violating the rights of others. Violating religiousliberty is not a problem for him. ndaa sopa pipa freebrad
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• Hollywood loves sequels: MPAA to push SOPA follow-up in 2013

  
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  The first version was hardly a hit, but Hollywood is already planning a sequel to the  Stop Online Piracy Act that it will push in 2013, reports claim. Comments made by Motion Picture Association of America chief executive Chris Dodd suggest that the MPAA will work to get a new anti-piracy billed passed next year, ...
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• Hollywood loves sequels: MPAA to push SOPA follow-up in 2013

  
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  The first version was hardly a hit, but Hollywood is already planning a sequel to the Stop Online Piracy Act that it will push in 2013, reports claim. Comments made by Motion Picture Association of America chief executive Chris Dodd suggest that the MPAA will work to get a new anti-piracy billed passed next year, ...
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• White House Hires a New Cybersecurity Boss

  
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  TheGift73 writes "Last week, longtime chief Howard Schmidt stepped down. Hes been replaced by Michael Daniel, whos been in the Office of Management and Budgets national security division for 17 years. What does that mean for the future of the cybersecurity issue? Probably that we can expect his knowledge of the ...
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• An Honored Inductee of The Order of Defenders of the Internet? Me?

  
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  I have been honored.Holmes Wilson, Tiffiniy Cheng, and the fighters of the Good Fight at Fight for the Future have seen fit to induct me into the "Order of Defenders of the Internet," and have presented to me -- via the United States Postal Service -- the "Nyan Cat Medal of Internet Awesomeness," pictured here.Me? ...
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• The Future of the Internet

  
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  Much of the recent writing and discussions on the internet have focused on political issues such as ACTA, SOPA, and Net Neutrality. These are incredibly important issues facing the internet today. But politics aside, what is the technological future of the internet? What will the internet look like twenty years from ...
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• Ad Biz Takes Aim at Rogue Sites

  
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  Opening up a new front in the war against rogue sites, advertisers and agencies are working with the government to develop a self-regulation program designed to choke off the flow of ad dollars to sites that steal a brand’s content or identity. The effort picked up steam recently when the Association of National ...
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