What is SOPA and what will it do

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What is SOPA (H.R. 3261) exactly?

(AKA The E-PARASITE Act)

Official Bill Summary: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:HR03261:@@@D&summ2=m&

-Gives the Attorney General the ability to seek a court-order to stop website owners, hosts, or domain registrars who are committing or facilitating copyright infringement... including but not limited to music, movies or counterfeit goods.
-Creates a process to allow a copyright holder, in some circumstances, to require a "payment network providers " (PayPal, Visa, etc) or "Internet advertising services" (Google AdSense, etc) to stop doing business with suspected copyright infringers. Process is similar to DMCA notification/counter-notification process.
-Will require Internet service providers, search engines, payment networks and advertising networks to comply with a court order requested by the Attorney General to withhold service or block "infringing sites".
-Provides immunity to service providers, (etc), who comply with actions required by this law. (similar to DMCA safe-harbor clauses)
-Gives some authority to block websites that specialize in providing prescription medication that is counterfeit or provided without a prescription.
-Includes the text of S.978: expands the definition of criminal copyright infringement to include public performances. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x11s8trkFzM)
-Increases penalties or some trade secret related offenses and various other IP offenses.
-Directs the US Sentencing Commission to review sentencing guidelines.
-Requires the appointment of an "intellectual property attaché" for each Department of State regional bureau.


How to oppose the bill:

https://www.popvox.com/bills/us/112/hr3261
https://ai360.aristotle.com/ActionAlert/TakeActionSinglePage.aspx?aam_GUID=65...
http://americancensorship.org/




Sources & Further Reading:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/garyshapiro/2011/12/07/save-the-internet-take-act...
http://www.avaaz.org/en/save_the_internet/?cl=1425589399&v=11332
http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/10/e-parasite_threatens_internet.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PROTECT_IP_Act
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/111511-lawmakers-seek-alternative-to-st...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/11/whats-blacklist-three-sites-sopa-could-...
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-57338178-281/critics-of-sopa-copyright-bill...
http://techie-buzz.com/tech-news/kaspersky-lab-bsa-sopa.html
http://techie-buzz.com/tech-news/sopa-protest.html
http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h3261/show

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[PsilocybinHippie]

its all about controlling us ants.... fuck the system

[TheDjsdojo83]

Thank you for this video you helped me out a lot to understand what this really is. I have known that something like SOPA was coming for about a year now and its scary to make the internet useless.

[MrSuperGoggles]

@Jtb1122own Meh. If you are so worried about your little freedom in the USA, why don't you just move to Kongo. Heh... Maybe you will find the freedom you seek there.

[Jtb1122own]

ahhh another system that wants to have things done their way and take away what little freedom the united states has left.

[agselenadoll13]

Youtube is my only way to express myself via internet (I love the word "via" :P)

[pirokee]

nobody has the power to take the things we love from us so SOPA will not win for they do not have the power to take you tube away

[TheFreckledGinger]

Sopa will not be passed. One of the authors of the bill dropped out and now oppose it. YAY!!!

[MrForhelved]

I don't want SOPA and PIPA so fuck up everything thing....i will...

*Picks up a sniper and a knife*

Fuck em' up!

[Ph0be]

Lol YouTube is all I have, how sad that they are really so trivial that they will take it away from me :/

[jaketoby465]

@PsilocybinHippie YEAHH i hate some of the laws and shit bro

[tobelast3f]

And i threw the bill on the ground!!!!!

[matthewMeakin]

I bet that if it gets passed everyone who voted for it will get their personal information leaked within the first 5 hours.