There are a number of key differences, however. Unlike SOPA, PIPA lacks a provision that requires search engines (like Google and Bing) to remove a “foreign infringing site” from their indexes. This provision in SOPA is one of the most highly criticized.
PIPA also contains provisions that require greater court intervention to go after an accused website than SOPA does. But it does not contain any provisions that would penalize copyright holders for misrepresenting the alleged infringing activities of an accused website — a potentially disastrous omission for innocent sites put through the PIPA ringer. SOPA does contain a provision that penalizes those copyright holders who “knowingly materially misrepresent” the alleged infringement of a website by making them “liable for damages, including costs and attorneys’ fees, incurred by the person injured by such misrepresentation as a result of the misrepresentation.”
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Also included in both bills is an anti-circumvention provision, which would make it illegal to inform users how to access blocked sites. According to First Amendment expert Marvin Ammori, a Legal Fellow with the New America Foundation Open Technology Initiative and an Affiliate Scholar at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet & Society, this provision could be interpreted to require any website that features user-generated content (think Facebook, Reddit, or YouTube) to make sure that no circumvention information has been posted to their site, or risk legal action.
Another provision highly cited by critics is the “vigilante” part of SOPA/PIPA, which allows ISPs to voluntarily block access to certain foreign websites, “in good faith,” if they have “credible evidence” that these sites are devoted to illegally distributing copyrighted material. Both SOPA and PIPA give immunity to ISPs who take voluntary action against websites that are believed — but not proven — to be dedicated to the illegal distribution of intellectual property. Because of this, critics say the potential to abuse this power is unconscionable.
An analysis (PDF) of Protect IP prepared by five Internet researchers this spring lists potential security problems. Among them: it's "incompatible" with DNSSEC, innocent Web sites will be swept in as "collateral damage," and the blacklist can be bypassed by using the numeric Internet address of a Web site. The [IP] address for CNET.com, for instance, is currently 64.30.224.118.
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A little-noticed portion of the proposed law, which CNET highlighted in an article, goes further than Protect IP and could require Internet providers to monitor customers' traffic and block Web sites suspected of copyright infringement.
"It would cover IP blocking," says Markham Erickson, head of NetCoalition, whose members include Amazon.com, Google, eBay, and Yahoo. "I think it contemplates deep packet inspection" as well, he said.
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Deep packet inspection, meaning forcing an Internet provider to intercept and analyze customers' Web traffic, is the only way to block access to specific URLs.
[Etsy] has over 800,000 active “shopsâ€â€¦ — far too many for Etsy to monitor manually. Further, because of the eclectic nature of goods listed, it’s difficult to technically filter through the objects listed.
All that means that it’s not feasible for Etsy to proactively prevent listings that may be perceived to violate US copyright or trademark law. That’s a problem, because under SOPA, anybody who is a “holder of an intellectual property right harmed by the activities†of even a portion of the site, could serve Etsy’s payment processors with a notice that would require them to suspend Etsy’s service within 5 days. That means that a trademark violation in one of the storefronts could lead to payment suspension across the entire site.
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Morning
So, ya, nothing really sucks more then find out your dad passed away in a PM over FB, but I know my brother had no other way to contact me. So far Wednesday is sucking
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Speaking of this, when I go to Wikipedia here at work, I can get to it just fine
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Morning
So, ya, nothing really sucks more then find out your dad passed away in a PM over FB, but I know my brother had no other way to contact me. So far Wednesday is sucking
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Morning
So, ya, nothing really sucks more then find out your dad passed away in a PM over FB, but I know my brother had no other way to contact me. So far Wednesday is sucking
Mala I am so sorry
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Speaking of this, when I go to Wikipedia here at work, I can get to it just fine
Have you done a search on Wikipedia?
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Speaking of this, when I go to Wikipedia here at work, I can get to it just fine
Have you done a search on Wikipedia?
Yup!
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Speaking of this, when I go to Wikipedia here at work, I can get to it just fine
Have you done a search on Wikipedia?
Yup!
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Speaking of this, when I go to Wikipedia here at work, I can get to it just fine
Have you done a search on Wikipedia?
Yup!
What I searched was SOPA.
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Speaking of this, when I go to Wikipedia here at work, I can get to it just fine
Have you done a search on Wikipedia?
Yup!
What I searched was SOPA.
ah - interesting. Try searching for anything else
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Speaking of this, when I go to Wikipedia here at work, I can get to it just fine
Have you done a search on Wikipedia?
Yup!
I heard on TOP that if you use Foxfire or Monzilla(?) if you disable the Java you can use the Wiki as normal
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Morning
So, ya, nothing really sucks more then find out your dad passed away in a PM over FB, but I know my brother had no other way to contact me. So far Wednesday is sucking
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Morning, comrades!
Most of you know that I go int to the nest of vipers every week (East Coast Conservative Podcast, Sunday nights at 8:30 - they bite, but they've had their shots.)
About 3 weeks ago, the entire show was dedicated to SOPA. I called in, and we all agreed that this was a bad thing. As I stated again last week, when we're all on the same side of an issue, then you know something is horribly wrong.
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Morning
So, ya, nothing really sucks more then find out your dad passed away in a PM over FB, but I know my brother had no other way to contact me. So far Wednesday is sucking
Oh, Mala. I'm so sorry.
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This is what happens when you let people who don't have a clue about technology write bills. Seriously.
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Morning, comrades!
Most of you know that I go int to the nest of vipers every week (East Coast Conservative Podcast, Sunday nights at 8:30 - they bite, but they've had their shots.)
About 3 weeks ago, the entire show was dedicated to SOPA. I called in, and we all agreed that this was a bad thing. As I stated again last week, when we're all on the same side of an issue, then you know something is horribly wrong.
This is what happens when you let people who don't have a clue about technology write bills. Seriously.
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It's killing me to see people saying how much dad loved his family on my brother's FB when all I want to say - ya, he loved them so much he forgot about at least 1 member of it. But that's not fair to people who had nothing to do with it.
yes, I have dad issues
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Morning, comrades!
Most of you know that I go int to the nest of vipers every week (East Coast Conservative Podcast, Sunday nights at 8:30 - they bite, but they've had their shots.)
About 3 weeks ago, the entire show was dedicated to SOPA. I called in, and we all agreed that this was a bad thing. As I stated again last week, when we're all on the same side of an issue, then you know something is horribly wrong.
This is what happens when you let people who don't have a clue about technology write bills. Seriously.
I have to wonder if those that write the bills even play the "what if" game to try and see more sides of the issue then their own. Then I wonder if they even care about any side but their own
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It's killing me to see people saying how much dad loved his family on my brother's FB when all I want to say - ya, he loved them so much he forgot about at least 1 member of it. But that's not fair to people who had nothing to do with it.
yes, I have dad issues
What I find sad is that you -- being who you are -- are having to stuff your feeling out of fairness. This is the part that really sucks.
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Morning, comrades!
Most of you know that I go int to the nest of vipers every week (East Coast Conservative Podcast, Sunday nights at 8:30 - they bite, but they've had their shots.)
About 3 weeks ago, the entire show was dedicated to SOPA. I called in, and we all agreed that this was a bad thing. As I stated again last week, when we're all on the same side of an issue, then you know something is horribly wrong.
This is what happens when you let people who don't have a clue about technology write bills. Seriously.
I have to wonder if those that write the bills even play the "what if" game to try and see more sides of the issue then their own. Then I wonder if they even care about any side but their own
I would hazard a guess that the bill wasn't even written by and Congressional staff, I bet it was written by lobbiests for the entertainment industry, who are breath takingly clueless about technology. They have been for years. TV and movie production companies were against VCRs for gosh sakes.
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I'm at work just checking in. Mala I am so sorry for your loss . I wish I could be up there to help out in some way. <3
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Well, Frank Wolf - my congress critter has posted on FB that he opposes SOPA in its current form.
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*non-sequitir*
Mr. Gingrich about President Obama "putting more people on food stamps than any other President".
Those of us that needed them say "Yes, and thank God for that."
BTW, isn't The SNAP program administered at the State level anyway? So all 50 governors had a hand in this.
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My condolences Mala.
Fark.com is coming out in favor of SOPA/PIPA!
...sorta....
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*non-sequitir*
Mr. Gingrich about President Obama "putting more people on food stamps than any other President".
Those of us that needed them say "Yes, and thank God for that."
BTW, isn't The SNAP program administered at the State level anyway? So all 50 governors had a hand in this.
What's saddest about SOPA is that it's pointless on two fronts. In the US, the MPAA, and RIAA already have the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to request that infringing material be taken down. We've all seen enough "video removed" messages to know that it works just fine.
As for the foreign operators, you might as well be throwing darts at a tse-tse fly. The poster child of overseas torrenting, Pirate Bay, has made it perfectly clear that they're not frightened in the least. And why should they be? Its proprietors have successfully evaded any technological attempt to shut them down so far. Its advertising partners aren't US-based, so they can't be choked out. But more important than Pirate Bay itself is the idea of Pirate Bay, and the hundreds or thousands of sites like it, as populous and resilient as mushrooms in a marsh. Forget the question of should SOPA succeed. It's incredibly unlikely that it could. At least at its stated goals.
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speaking of voter id - they are supposed to be introducing photo id in the VA legislature soon, if not already. And since it was only the Dems that stopped it from going through last year it will most suredily go through this year. Its just stupid - we already have voter id in VA, its called a Voter Registration Card.
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speaking of voter id - they are supposed to be introducing photo id in the VA legislature soon, if not already. And since it was only the Dems that stopped it from going through last year it will most suredily go through this year. Its just stupid - we already have voter id in VA, its called a Voter Registration Card.
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Good morning everyone. I think there was even a debate over whether facebook or Twitter should shut down today as well. I guess I could use a day off from the internet and spend more time catching up on my DVR recordings.
Mala, sorry about your dad. Speaking as someone who is an orphan for 16 years since my mom died.
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In other news, Virginia GOP scraps plans for the "Loyalty Oath" for primaries.
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What?
Can it be true? Obama said to be rejecting Keystone this afternoon!
Stericycle, a massive medical waste disposal service company, received a $75 million investment from Bain Capital in 1999 and soon became an industry leader. Today, it has more than 485,000 customers worldwide. Its clients include hospitals, blood banks, and pharmaceutical manufacturers. But it has also helped dispose of medical waste from Planned Parenthood and abortion clinics -- waste that included aborted fetuses -- and that has attracted the ire of the pro-life community and establishment Republicans.
Romney's relationship to the company, which was flagged by the Democratic opposition research group American Bridge and further examined through an independent review of documents, is tangential. By the time Bain Capital had made the investment in Stericycle, he had left the firm to run the 2002 Winter Olympic Games. He maintained ownership in Bain and kept holdings in its private equity funds, which included Stericycle stock, but he had no say in the managerial or strategic decisions at the firm, according to Bain officials.
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In other news, Virginia GOP scraps plans for the "Loyalty Oath" for primaries.