Thursday, November 17, 2011
Hackers, ACLU, Consumer Rights Groups, Human Rights Groups, Many More All Come Out Against SOPA
Then we have that bastion of "piracy," the ACLU. Yes, it's a joke. The ACLU is a supporter of the offense, but it is absolutely in favor of freedom of expression, and is worried about the mechanisms of censorship in the bill:
By their very nature, laws protecting the right to limit copyright of expression and access to information. Unlike other speech restrictions, however, copyright laws may also make progress in the production of information and ideas. A system of copyright encourages freedom of speech robust speakers giving incentives for creation and dissemination of works by the author. These laws add the marketplace of ideas, encourage the creation of more content by ensuring that content producers receive the fruits of their labor. But access to information of all types - including those involving disadvantaged - is a fundamental right that must be protected.
even more to the point, the mere existence of the offense of online content does not justify removing illegal content is not part of this attempt to rid the Internet of the first. These principles should not be changed or treated differently just because technology has changed.
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Soup , unfortunately, is far worse than protect intellectual property. By eliminating the concept of "sites dedicated to the illegal activity," soup permitted by law to treat all sites that contain some content that attempt - no matter how trivial - and that "facilitate" the offending content The potential impact on non-infringement of content is exponentially greater in SOPA in other versions of this Act. As such, despite our support for the legitimate interests of producers of online content author can not support the soup, and in fact it opposes in its current form, given its large area and field provided to content producers largely innocent.the letter is added to highlight exactly how and when the soup violates the First Amendment. He also noted that approval would set a terrible precedent Soup for the rest of the world.
Committee members want to focus not only on the objective to protect copyright holders, but also protecting the rights of the consumer voice and suppliers who are reading and the total production and eliminate content infringement warranty damage to such protected content. Only in this way the committee will actually achieve its goal of protecting authors and allow the law to survive a constitutional challenge.
The following is a letter from over 40 different human rights groups, taking into account their concerns and how SOPA will create significant problems for human rights around the world:through SOPA, the United States attempts to dominate a shared global resource. Construction of a firewall and the creation of national barriers to international operators of the site makes a powerful statement United States is not interested in participating in a global information infrastructure.
However, U.S. states would be the creation of barriers that restrict the free flow of information was a challenge abroad. By imposing technical changes to the open Internet, while the erosion of due process, introduces a degree of legal uncertainty SOUP very disturbing in the Internet economy, including businesses and consumers worldwide. Companies can not be online when international users and businesses have no faith that their access to payments, domain names, and advertising is available, poses challenges for economic development and innovation . This is unacceptable for the international community, it would be if a foreign country would impose similar measures in the U.S.SOUP The provisions of DNS filtering, in particular, will have serious consequences throughout the world. In China, DNS filtering contributes to the great wall that prevents citizens from accessing Web sites or services that have been censored by the Chinese government.
In establishing this practice in the United States, SOUP sends a strong message to other nations that it is acceptable to censor speech on the World
Next on the tour of the population against future SOUP, we have many public interest groups, including the American Library Association, Library Association Research, Human Rights Watch, the Open Technology Initiative New America Foundation, TechFreedom, FreedomHouse the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the EFF, Public Knowledge and others.
always amazes me that supporters of SOPA do not realize what a big deal is. Foreign nations giving the "ok" to censor the Internet is a ridiculously stupid policy.
had enough? Okay, and on the different
not question the existence of centers of counterfeiting online. However, the definitions of the sites would be subject to SOPA resources are so vast that encompasses much more than bad actors benefit from the infringement. Including all sites that can - even unwittingly - to "facilitate" the offense, the bill raises serious concerns about overbroad. According to Article 102 of the Act, a non-site domestic home video sharing with thousands of users to share their videos innocent prisoners, but a small minority who use the site to violate criminal, you can find your name domain blocked by the U.S. Operators DNS. A number of non-infringement of videos from the likes of budding artists, the proud parents, citizens, journalists and human rights activists would be too carried away by such action. In addition, the resulting overflow of the bill is more likely that the impact of the websites operators and smaller services that do not have the legal capacity to fight against false allegations of infringement.
Based on a broader definition of "site dedicated to the theft of property of the United States," Article 103 of the SOPA creates a private right of action to 'impressive. Any right holder may reduce the SAP financial services such as search engines, platforms, user-generated content, social media and cloud-based storage unless the asset tracking services and the police user activity, to the satisfaction of the copyright holder. A simple accusation of any holder of rights would be sufficient to require payment and ad networks to finish doing business with the service, the only resource in the service of the defendant against sending a notice, at which time the discretion is networks, either to restore access to the service payments and advertising. It would ignore and effectively reverse the basic structure of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), growing user-driven sites like Twitter, YouTube and Facebook to implement more sophisticated control systems to "confirm" to the satisfaction of the right holder more aggressive and litigious, if individual users are sharing content counterfeit.
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stakeholders? Consumers Union, Consumer Federation of America and U. S. PIRG sent such a letter.
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