WHAT IS S.O.P.A

[L O K I]

Hello
Im sure the people who don't know what SOPA is, so here you can post YOUR explanation

[Ragani]

sopa is an organisation against fandom things so if sopa win its illegal to post fandom drawings to have fan icons and to write fanfictions so

STOP THE SOPA

( join the rebelgroup)

[Dr. Mirtachu]

SOPA is evil organisation who has come to ruin our lives and internet...>.>

[L O K I]

sopa is an organisation against fandom things so if sopa win its illegal to post fandom drawings to have fan icons and to write fanfictions so

STOP THE SOPA

( join the rebelgroup)

Nice
Anybody else

[Ragani]

http://raganiazumi.deviantart.com/#/d4mudlc watch that image

[Hekomi]

SOPA is a bill that is to protect movies, music, basically entertainment from being pirated which is against the law. The bill gives the government authority to remove websites, keep them down for a few days for investigation, and then put them back up.

So basically if I were to post a youtube video featuring a song in it on CS the site could be shut down for a number of days until they remove it. Facebook will be completely censored. Search engines like google will not be able to function properly and only bring up non-copyrighted footage.

SOPA is an anti-piracy bill working its way through Congress...
House Judiciary Committee Chair and Texas Republican Lamar Smith, along with 12 co-sponsors, introduced the Stop Online Piracy Act on October 26th of last year. Debate on H.R. 3261, as it's formally known, has consisted of one hearing on November 16th and a "mark-up period" on December 15th, which was designed to make the bill more agreeable to both parties. Its counterpart in the Senate is the Protect IP Act (S. 968). Also known by its cuter-but-still-deadly name: PIPA. There will likely be a vote on PIPA next Wednesday; SOPA discussions had been placed on hold but will resume in February of this year.

...that would grant content creators extraordinary power over the internet...
The beating heart of SOPA is the ability of intellectual property owners (read: movie studios and record labels) to effectively pull the plug on foreign sites against whom they have a copyright claim. If Warner Bros., for example, says that a site in Italy is torrenting a copy of The Dark Knight, the studio could demand that Google remove that site from its search results, that PayPal no longer accept payments to or from that site, that ad services pull all ads and finances from it, and—most dangerously—that the site's ISP prevent people from even going there.

That might explain it better.

[Loenna]

are they basically trying to close down the interwebs?

and undo decades of work?
and ruin all of our technology?

[dragonsapphic]

SOPA is basically hitting a fly with a sledgehammer.

[Hekomi]

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