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Seems I Am Not The Only One....
Jan. 20th, 2012 11:38 amOriginally posted by ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
morgandawn at Seems I Am Not The Only One....
While I'm not in the US where this regulation is potentially going to be imposed, I know that many sites I use have their servers there, such as LiveJournal and Dreamwidth.
There is also the fact that sites such as Megaupload weren't even based in the US have been shut down. The company was registered in Hong Kong, and some of the people running it were in New Zealand. Yet the US justice department were still able to get it closed down. And do so without given any of the people using it to have time to save what they had stored else were. The assumption seems to be that is a site has some pirated material all the material must be.
Not quite so much in the news, but there is a UK case. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-16544335 A British Sheffield university student who'd created a site, TVshack, that allowed you to search for links to pirated films and TV programs. Okay it was illegal (although little more so than google displaying links to torrent sites) but I feel that he should have been tried under UK laws (although there is no criminal case against him running in the UK), rather been extradted to the US to stand trial, where if found guilty, will face up to five years in jail, which would be served in the US.
SOPA/PIPA will only serve to make this kind of thing all the more common. And it seems that being in another country - and potentially even if what you are doing isn't illegal in your own country you could still face criminal charges in the US.
The fact that SOPA/PIPA is vaguely worded enough that it could depending on how you interpret it also cover fake goods, could mean that places like ebay, esty and folksy could fall foul of it - because people sell crafts etc with film logos or jumpers with a cartoon characters face knitted into it.
There is also the issue of whether transformative arts, fanfic, fan vids, art, things like t-shirts on tee-fury would be safe.
There are a lot of other things in the bills that I really don't like as well. The assumption of guilty until proven innocent. The fact that a site can be closed down for having links to a site where pirated material might be available.
That it allows for DNS blocking - something that was condemned by the world when places like Egypt used to try to halt the Arab Spring.
The way around this is to use proxy servers, which leads to the speculation, by rather a lot of people that if SOPA/PIPA is introduced with DNS blocking as part of it, then the introduction a law prohibiting the use of proxy servers in the US will not be far behind, along with deep packet inspection (the computerised equivalent of phone tapping or opening people private post)
There was a time when I would have thought that this was conspiracy theorist chatter, now I'm not so sure.
I hate to think that we are seeing the last days of an internet that there for us all, and where we don't have to worry whether people were watching us and taking note of exactly what sites we go to and who we talk with.
morgandawn at Seems I Am Not The Only One..........who feels the need to take a break from an increasingly dysfunctional relationship.
While I'm not in the US where this regulation is potentially going to be imposed, I know that many sites I use have their servers there, such as LiveJournal and Dreamwidth.
There is also the fact that sites such as Megaupload weren't even based in the US have been shut down. The company was registered in Hong Kong, and some of the people running it were in New Zealand. Yet the US justice department were still able to get it closed down. And do so without given any of the people using it to have time to save what they had stored else were. The assumption seems to be that is a site has some pirated material all the material must be.
Not quite so much in the news, but there is a UK case. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-16544335 A British Sheffield university student who'd created a site, TVshack, that allowed you to search for links to pirated films and TV programs. Okay it was illegal (although little more so than google displaying links to torrent sites) but I feel that he should have been tried under UK laws (although there is no criminal case against him running in the UK), rather been extradted to the US to stand trial, where if found guilty, will face up to five years in jail, which would be served in the US.
SOPA/PIPA will only serve to make this kind of thing all the more common. And it seems that being in another country - and potentially even if what you are doing isn't illegal in your own country you could still face criminal charges in the US.
The fact that SOPA/PIPA is vaguely worded enough that it could depending on how you interpret it also cover fake goods, could mean that places like ebay, esty and folksy could fall foul of it - because people sell crafts etc with film logos or jumpers with a cartoon characters face knitted into it.
There is also the issue of whether transformative arts, fanfic, fan vids, art, things like t-shirts on tee-fury would be safe.
There are a lot of other things in the bills that I really don't like as well. The assumption of guilty until proven innocent. The fact that a site can be closed down for having links to a site where pirated material might be available.
That it allows for DNS blocking - something that was condemned by the world when places like Egypt used to try to halt the Arab Spring.
The way around this is to use proxy servers, which leads to the speculation, by rather a lot of people that if SOPA/PIPA is introduced with DNS blocking as part of it, then the introduction a law prohibiting the use of proxy servers in the US will not be far behind, along with deep packet inspection (the computerised equivalent of phone tapping or opening people private post)
There was a time when I would have thought that this was conspiracy theorist chatter, now I'm not so sure.
I hate to think that we are seeing the last days of an internet that there for us all, and where we don't have to worry whether people were watching us and taking note of exactly what sites we go to and who we talk with.