Congress takes up controversial anti-piracy SOPA legislation

Congress takes up controversial anti-piracy SOPA legislation

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Congress began debating Wednesday another controversial effort by the movie industry and other content makers to stem Internet piracy through federal legislation. The measure, known as SOPA, for Stop Online Piracy Act, would empower the nation's attorney general to tell search engines and other Internet providers to stop sending Web surfers to alleged piracy sites, a measure opponents describe as "an Internet blacklist."

The Electronic Frontier Foundation calls the proposal "the most extreme, anti-Internet, anti-privacy, anti-free speech copyright proposal in U.S. legislative history."

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"alleged piracy sites"

smh

Who decides what is a piracy site and what isn't? The federal government or the search engine? :-3

It's piracy when it competes with their product.

I bet if there's even talk about piracy on a website, the website will be b-b-b-b-banned! So long modacity :ohdear:

I've already sent two signatures on two petitions via Demand Progress over this. Fucking nutjobs in Congress.

What about http://wa.pirate.is/.... I guess that is a piracy website.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate
Is this a banned website :saddowns:

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Originally Posted by Kornman00

I bet if there's even talk about piracy on a website, the website will be b-b-b-b-banned! So long modacity :ohdear:

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Nah this site's fine we're all good people :)

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Originally Posted by InnerGoat

Nah this site's fine we're all good people :)

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http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h2...9821/ytdJY.png

How can you define what's a pirate site or not? Makes no sense...