Can anyone tell me why all people are opposing SOPA (stop online piracy act)

Hardik - It's a trojan horse. Not at all what they are publicizing it to be.

We HAVE laws against piracy. If they want to shut down piracy sites, they already have the law on their side. This bill would not even exist if it were just allowing them to enforce a law already in existence.

What SOPA does is give them powers that will allow them to shut down any site they want - destroy any business they want. It also guarantees large companies will have little, if any competition. There are other threads about the bill in here that have links that can give you a more clear picture of what is really going on.

What Heysal said is certainly correct. What I hate about it is that "IP protection" laws now are MORONIC! As heysal said, we have had laws for a LONG time! Those laws are INTERNATIONALLY recognized, agreed to, and replicated! So JAPAN, for example, honors ours, and we honor theirs. There is NO reason to change those!

They have no reliable central repository to load things into, though that ITSELF is a security risk, and people could claim rights they don't have, and shut sites down claiming they infringe. Further, the government is asking for too much power! It is ILLEGAL, but THEY are the ones that would enforce the laws they are breaking!

Did you know that they are now trying to say that freedom of the press applies ONLY to bone fide journalists? GEE, given the old description of journalists, VERY few qualify, but they now must define it a NEW way. Although I agree that the person in question should be found guilty, and she is clearly not a journalist, I don't agree with their subjective reasoning.

How long before THIS law morphs into something different? With new laws, it seems it is within months.

Steve

We have have to stand against SOPA, if we don't, one day we may no longer have WF to use.

We have to be careful!

Because OP if you share a link that violates copy right on a website like Reddit you can be charged and prosecuted for it.

Now who would enforce these SOPA violations, huh? I thought the internet was anonymous. Oh well, I guess a new industry devoted to enforcing SOPA in America will be invented.

Soon we will all be serfs to our new overlords.

There is NOT 94% of ANY group that believe in immaculate conception, or even the virgin birth. Not even CATHOLICS! The US has 25% of CO2 emissions? DOUBT IT! Some nations are VERY large, and have far less efficient engines. or dirtier machinery and/or fuels. Have you SEEN china lately? Still, those plants that they complain are vanishing NEED CO2! I guess we COULD make the cars less efficient and have them put out CO! It would be more dangerous, and plants may not be able to use it, but it would weigh less.

I doubt the healtcare industry spent $1.4Million/day to defeat the "HCP", but the other side is certainly going gangbusters pushing something! Still, these days, $1.4 millday doesn't go far on TV. IWICSM

Interesting thing. SOME catholics actually believe that MARY was born to a virgin mother, etc...! I guess the reasoning is that only this way could Jesus be subject to effictively NO inerited sin, etc... And some believe in transubstantiation. But 94% of ANY group? Include ANY christians(EVEN Pentecostal), ANY catholics, GOP, etc....? NOPE! And I doubt any other than some catholics believe in MARY being born to a virgin.

People say SO much about Christians, etc... If SO many were in government, and they were SO intransigent, and were such STRONG believers, the US, heck the WORLD, would be very different.

Then again, if they did believe in the immaculate conception, SO WHAT? HECK, some that do may be in africa. Some are CERTAINLY in some VERY poor parts of spanish speaking countries. Some even help them out from richer countres. DannyThomas prayed, honored his oath, and even named his hospital after a saint! Did HE believe in the immaculate conception? MAYBE. Does that invalidate anything he did?

Steve

Rule of thumb:
The more benign something sounds the more dangerous to your rights it is.

This was kind of interesting,
Bob Parsons CEO of GoDaddy...
Mastering the publicity stunt or the art of trolling

Supports SOPA, then unsupports it...GooooDaddy.

There are still those that want the Internet to be totally free to share copyrighted material or not

For "All people opposing " you can add "Large tech companies opposing". None of the large tech companies want SOPA. either.

It would seem to be a legal "can of worms".

Quote:
"Indeed, legal experts agreed: SOPA did open a lot of dangerous doors, many of which could lead to the widespread censorship of the Internet. Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe recently even argued recently that the bill violates the First Amendment."

Source:
The Titans of Silicon Valley Rally Around the SOPA Alternative - Politics - The Atlantic Wire

SOPA will make sites like Youtube unworkable. Youtube knows that. They cannot police every video uploaded. Google and other search engines cannot review every site they index.

SOPA would kill WEB 2.0. ...Dead.

The tech companies are in favor of a proposed alternative bill;OPEN. This proposes a process to stop piracy. It is not what amounts to the summary execution of websites a.k.a. SOPA.

Note: There is a similar subject thread to this on the main forum and this is a similar post to the one I made there. :p

Steve's pretty well known for getting stuck on a "keyword" in a discussion and going off on an irrelevant tangent over it.

You are right - a lot of the numbers are off kilter in the video, but the whole message comes across pretty loud and clear.

SOPA allows them to pull down websites without due process. It also sets up draconian use of "copyright" -- such as if you use even a small quote from the news, even attributed correctly and used inside your own material for illumination or reference, they can call it "infringement" and pull you offline.

The worst part of it is that because there is no due process necessary to pull you offline - they can use any excuse they want to just yank you off if you say anything the "authorities" don't want you to say. It would be up to you to be able to fight them to get back online - and we know already how that works,eh?

As I posted somewhere before (maybe even earlier this thread) -- most of the 82 websites that got seized last year (early this year?) were completely innocent of any wrong doing and they were seized with NO due process. It harmed a LOT of innocent business owners - then the news reports it as if it were a good thing that 82 websites were seized. People, unless they looked into it, thought that a service had been done for them when it was just a draconian move against a lot of innocent people. SOPA would allow this to be everyday business in the world of the powerful and greedy. Gov has already been hassling Youtube about shutting down videos that do nothing but show real corruption at high levels. Not lies - just stuff they don't want the world to hear or see. That is NOT anti-piracy. It's censorship. Period. Chinese style censorship at its finest.

Remember during the Iran protests when the protesters had to go through proxy to get info out because their internet was shut down, monitored, etc? That is how Americans will be communicating any issues of extreme importance pretty soon. If you put this together with other current legislation and your blood doesn't run cold and your bowels don't run loose, you don't understand any of what is going on around you. People need to stop concentrating on one thing or another and start looking at whole packages - and they need to do that pretty fast.

Have you seen this video? Every internet user should. It's worth watching the whole fourteen minutes! I never watch a video right through to the end but this one I just couldn't turn off. Brilliantly done.

Don't just boycott godaddy for their support, get active. You need to contact (preferably call) your 2 senators and your representative and let them know that: you are a constituent, that you vote and that you are against sopa. Better hurry, hearings start in January.

Just another Frankenstein Monster...

They don't really want you to know they create the "evil" until it escapes and turns on them.

Then of course, it must be stopped at all costs to protect "society".


(I really don't think this was a "masterplan"...I don't think they thought that far ahead...if they did, they are really evil *******s, and I would have to give them credit for being that viciously evil, and kill them mercilessly like Nazis, or terrorists, or drug kingpins, and I can't do that...yet.)

Well, Jim - I'm thinking those are one of the places we should be sending this Youtube.

Thanks for posting this JustVisiting - as soon as I hit the post button on this thread - that video is going to FB and Twitter. It gives a least a little tad of hope in a corporate owned country that a action against the people by a corporation can be stopped.