SOPA By Gabe DP 11

What is SOPA? SOPA: Stop Online Piracy Act

The Internet Blacklist Bill: - US Government allowed to block the American’s access to websites.

- US Government allowed to block American websites.

Bill introduce by U.S. Representative Lamar S. Smith

How Do They Block?SOPA uses DNS Blocking (a website

censorship method).

DNS is also used by China, Iran, and Syria.

What is DNS?DNS: Domain Name System

A standard protocol for how computers exchange data on the Internet or private networks.

When does a site get blocked?

Numbers of infringing links in the website.

Copyright (posting something that is not yours.

“the users posted it!” – Website operator

“You didn’t do enough to stop it” – SOPA

Sites at greatest risk of getting blocked:VimeoFacebookMyspaceAOLTwitter

Example SOPA Caseshttp://www.megaupload.com

File-sharing site

Hong Kong-based site

Kim Schmitz, aka Kim Dotcom – Founder

Caught for: Copyright Infringement ($ 500 million) Money Laundering (pays users to upload infringing

content, “uploader reward” program)Thousands of third-party linking site

Arrest to MegauploadKim Schmitz, Hong Kong, aka Kim Dotcom (37) –

Founder

Finn Batato (38), Germany – Chief Marketing Officer

Julius Bencko (35), Slovakia – Graphic Designer

Sven Echternach (39), Germany – Head of Business Development

Mathias Ortmann (40), Germany – Chief Technical Officer, Co-Founder, and Director

Andrus Nomm (32), Estonia – Software Programmer

Bram van der Kolk (29), Dutch - Programmer

White House PositionOn January 14, 2012, Obama

administration responded to the bill.

The white house are AGAINST the bill.

More than 100,000 people petitioned the White House in protest.

Protest Action

November 16, 2011; Tumblr, Mozilla, Techdirt. Displayed black banners over website logos with “STOP CENSORSHIP”

January 18, 2012; Wikipedia blackout for 24 hour.

January 19, 2012; Linked Digital Attack Protest by Anonymous. 5,635 people participating.

Could this be the law?Yes it can, the bill supporters had been

increasing.

The Affects of SOPA on the Society

Communication through the Internet could be limited to what you send.

Education can have less sources to use.

Blogs going to be boring.

78% of America are using the Internet, if the internet get’s block, they become the next China.

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