Sopa what will happen

Post : 6. Oba Member. I honestly dont think SOPA will last for long, if it even get through. Obama also said that he not will support this, and will do as much as he can to make this not happen. When Wikipedia and many more sites had that blackout on januari 18th, 18 senetors changed their mind. Anonoymous did also hack FBI today, and they are planning on to hack themselves into the white house rumors only. And SOPA have not yet started. It will be chaos. AE has been right AQW. This is the year of chaos O.

Post : 7. Calogero Member. If I for example upload something of EpicDuel and I put a song with it on Youtube, both Youtube and AE could be sued for copyright infrigment even if unintentional Post : 8.

Post : 9. Then ED would also be sued for the Song Did that make any sence at all. Post : I think ED would be responsable aswell due to it being Their vid being used with Said song Supporters publicized letters from the National Fraternal Order of Police and the International Association of Fire Fighters lending their weight to the Web-blocking idea.

Here are more statements from supporters at the time of SOPA's introduction. Over businesses and organizations have sent a letter supporting SOPA. And in the U. An analysis by the RIAA says that of some 1, bills that have been introduced in the Senate, only 18 other bills enjoy the same number of bipartisan cosponsors as Protect IP does.

That puts it in the top 1 percent of most-popular bills, at least for this measurement of congressional enthusiasm. Here's the list of Senate sponsors of Protect IP--the total is 40 senators.

SOPA has only 24 cosponsors , but it hasn't been around as long. Darrell Issa, a California Republican, has introduced the so-called OPEN Act that would cut off the flow of funds to alleged pirate Web sites without requiring them to be blocked. In an echo of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's anticircumvention section, SOPA targets anyone who "knowingly and willfully provides or offers to provide a product or service designed or marketed by such entity Legal scholars contacted by CNET said Tor could qualify as a "circumvention" tool, which would allow it to be targeted.

What happens next? In terms of Protect IP, the Senate Judiciary committee has approved it and it's waiting for a floor vote that has been scheduled for January One hurdle: Sen.

Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, has placed a hold on the bill. During a two-day debate in the House Judiciary committee in mid-December, it became clear that SOPA supporters have a commanding majority on the committee.

They're expected to approve it when Congress returns in Where it goes from there is an open question that depends on where the House Republican leadership stands.

Because the House's floor schedule is under the control of the majority party, the decision will largely lie in the hands of House Speaker John Boehner and his lieutenants. Another possibility is that there could be further House hearings on the security-related implications of SOPA, a move that would delay a final vote. An aide to House Judiciary Chairman Lamar Smith previously told CNET that there's no indication yet as to any further hearings, but after the committee debate in December, don't be surprised if it happens.

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Declan McCullagh. Critics — among them, the founders of Google, Wikipedia, the Internet Archive, Tumblr and Twitter — counter that the laws will stifle innovation and investment, hallmarks of the free, open internet. The Obama administration has offered muted criticism of the legislation, but, as many of his supporters have painfully learned, what President Barack Obama questions one day, he signs into law the next.

First, the basics. The two bills are very similar. Sopa would allow copyright holders to complain to the US attorney general about a foreign website they allege is "committing or facilitating the commission of criminal violations" of copyright law.

This relates mostly to pirated movies and music. Sopa would allow the movie industry, through the courts and the US attorney general, to send a slew of demands that internet service providers ISPs and search engine companies shut down access to those alleged violators, and even to prevent linking to those sites, thus making them "unfindable". It would also bar internet advertising providers from making payments to websites accused of copyright violations.

Sopa could, then, shut down a community-based site like YouTube if just one of its millions of users was accused of violating one US copyright. As David Drummond, Google's chief legal officer and an opponent of the legislation, blogged:. Pipa and Sopa will censor the web, will risk our industry's track record of innovation and job creation, and will not stop piracy.

That's why we call these the censorship bills.