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Uploaded by on Dec 24, 2011

Will 2012 see the end of the internet as we know it? The House Judiciary committee tried to finalize the Stop Online Piracy Act (Sopa) before Christmas for a vote early next year. But fierce opposition -- much of it online -- seems to have given pause to the bill's main author, Lamar Smith. He is now expected to hear from expert witnesses early next year before the bill goes to Congress. Watch this video for a guide to the fight that will likely become one of the big stories of the coming year

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  • me: Wow! SOPA is bad! we should stop it! we should...wait? Did you just say justin bieber could go to jail for five years?

  • At 1:01 I actually said: Well lets not be so hasty here, Maybe we can negotiate with sopa. They take justin bieber and make him illegal. And we do whatever we want.

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  • 33 green pigs zombies skeletons spiders creepers and endermen like SOPA, PIPA, ACTA, and RIAA acts

  • 0:57 Where´s the problem?

  • All that i have liked at sopa is justin bieber going to jail

  • Machiavelli book THE PRINCE...its the governments blue print to control the world.

  • Sounds like the trojan horse of TOTAL MEDIA CENSORSHIP...email, magazines, newspaper, television etc etc, The FCC has already censored artist/actors/commedians from speaking from their hearts not cue card...they're just making it official. By the way WHO THE FUCK do they think they are to take OUR rights away? If you (GOVERNMENT) doesnt want free speech shut up & sit down. MY RIGHTS ARE MY RIGHTS dont group me in with ALL the UNCONSCIOUS DUMBASSes who cant see its all a soap opera FACISM front

  • This is what they should do:

    1. Remove only stollen copyrighted stuff and take them Down if not removed 5 days after notice.

    2. Leave google and YouTube alone.

    3. Only Remove pics from Facebook and twitter that are copyrighted.

    4. Shut down license givers ( people who give away license numbers ).

  • I'm ok with Justin bieber going to jail ,but not the internet!

  • iiii

    

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