Stop Online Piracy Act

A friend showed me this today.

Well... here is a new bill with a lot of bipartisan support... that could very well pass (has a decent chance).

Better hope it doesn't though... or this site could be in trouble. This is what I call "over-policy".



Thoughts?

Does this remind anyone else of the Salem witch trials?

This bill is ingeniously designed. On the surface, it protects industries (STEALING IS BAD THIS BILL STOPS STEALING) but in reality it allows the government a sickening control of the internet.

Thank god I'm in Canada.

everyone sign the petition. This bill is crap

Correct me if I'm wrong, but does this technically mean if a user posted a link on a site to another site with pirated material, that site that was posted or commented on would be shut down?

MHUHAHAHAHA!

But seriously this is terrible.

Great. Now not only is every single inch of the Earth owned by a government, the non-existent area of the internet will be as well.

This bill is the biggest line of bull those legal assholes have tried to pass. I understand that there are copyright issues on the internet, but shutting down a post just becuase there's a link connected to a site with copyrighted material somewhere posted on it? Downright bullshit. What are they going to do next? Ban newspapers because they don't have rights to whatever the article is about? Forbid the broadcasting of the news because the street they didn't have rights to the private property the street was connected to? I could go on for hours about this, we all could but it's not going to accomplish anything, they're going to pass it just because they want to control our "freedom". It's ironic that they're trying to pass bills to defend our rights when really they're just taking them away, there's a "change" for ya. Obama is killing this country.

Yeah i agree that piracy is bad. I just wish they would tell us how much content actually gets stolen though. Like how much money do these companies lose because of piracy? This whole situation is stupid

A law like this makes it extremely easy to destroy illegal material. Torrent sites would be child's play to destroy with this, but like Super said, this allows the government to have a disgusting amount of control over the internet.

I'm probably jumping to conclusions, but I feel acts like these are a slippery slope to a dark future. A lot of pivotal moments in history are happening right now, and we're at the frontlines for it all. Wars with no battles, no monuments, only casualties.

Just save us the time and make a totalitarian world government. The revolution will go quicker.

If this passes I'll have to use torr to get everything.

I don't want to use torr. My download speed will die.

if this passes, i will consider stopping using the internet. There's just no point if I can't go to Youtube to watch game walkthroughs or listen to music/watch music videos. It's complete bullshit how the government tries to control every inch of our what they call freedom. They're doing a bad enough job at fixing the economy and handling affairs over in the Middle East. This is the last fucking thing they should be worrying about.

Bumping this on the account that SOPA is expected to pass the House soon... unless, there is a sudden uprise of opposition.

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What's wrong with SOPA?

This could explain it-




Remember to read the articles below the video, they go a little more in detail.

Remember, if this law passes, a site like UX could very easily be taken down by the Government!