SOPA?

[dilbert firestorm]

what's the problem with SOPA?

the bill I read appears to target foriegn based piracy and intellecutal property theft.

now some sections may run afoul of the fair use doctrine.

[Guest021012]

Originally Posted by CuteOldGuy

I am not a conservative, and even if I were, I would oppose this bill. I don't care if Jesus wrote it, it is un-American.

The best way it could possibly be put. It's un-American and unconstitutional.

[Guest021012]

Originally Posted by dilbert firestorm

what's the problem with SOPA?

the bill I read appears to target foriegn based piracy and intellecutal property theft.

now some sections may run afoul of the fair use doctrine.

Read the entirity of the bill.

[Little Stevie]

Originally Posted by CuteOldGuy

So you support SOPA, Stevie?

I mirror DreamGirlRosy's opinions. I may be MORE against it than anyone on this board.

Follow the money. K Street wants it passed. Basically, I believe what is good for K Street is bad for America and freedom.

[CuteOldGuy]

Even Stevie can accidentally get something right occasionally. There is hope!

[dilbert firestorm]

Originally Posted by DreamGirlRosy

Read the entirity of the bill.

I did unless section 201 is the bugaboo that everyones upset about.

SOFA is geared toward stopping foreign & domestic piracy

[I B Hankering]

Rubio, Vitter and maybe Feinstein are reconsidering their position, and some are asking Reid not to bring the bill to the floor.

[CuteOldGuy]

No, Dilbert. SOFA is what you sit on to watch football. SOPA is a power grab by government to control the internet.

[I B Hankering]

Similarly, SOPA/PIPA shouldn't be confused with sopapillas.

[CuteOldGuy]

or SOPA on a ROPA

[dilbert firestorm]

Originally Posted by CuteOldGuy

No, Dilbert. SOFA is what you sit on to watch football. SOPA is a power grab by government to control the internet.

oopsie, typo on SOPA.

[Guest021012]

Originally Posted by dilbert firestorm

I did unless section 201 is the bugaboo that everyones upset about.

SOFA is geared toward stopping foreign & domestic piracy

Here's the only WIKI page still working: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act

Maybe they can shine light on the areas where people are hung up on. Mainly, the free exchange of information. P2P sharing would all together vanish. The wealth of information you now know as the world wide web will be reduced to not only what you can afford to buy, but also, what the government (ei big corps) decides is acceptable to be offered for you to buy. Furthermore, nothing that is copy written will be able to be used in any online video. Think about it for a minute, how much information do you use or view that isn't directly licensed? All those videos on youtube are gone, period. Tutorials, game walkthroughs, cheats and easter eggs, porn will be highly limited, you will pay for EVERY note of music or scene of a movie, no doing covers of songs. This opens the door for them to censor and monitor your access to medication options (even the information about such medications), sites like this one will vanish, news access will be directly filtered before you're allowed to get it, homeschooling would be impossible for the less than wealthy, (most of the resources used are p2p shared) Not to mention that if you pair this with the two bills I mentioned earlier, the perfect system is in place to forever quite any resistance from the population. Who would dare even say something cross against the higher powers if they had the power to come pick you up and make you vanish without a trace? Who would stand up for our freedoms then?..I could literally go on forever.
The ONLY people behind this are copy write companies, the big music production companies and those who have to benefit from total control of information trade. This is an attack on what it means to be an American.

Here are other helpful links:
1. http://www.infowars.com/the-secret-behind-sopa/
2. http://www.techdirt.com/articles/201...ad-ideas.shtml
3. http://blog.rockmelt.com/post/135585...what-you-can-d

FYI under SOPA, not only would those information exchange sites like those above be illegal, I and ECCIE.net could face criminal charges for distributing the information. That should put it in perspective for you.