Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Stop Online Piracy Act....could Stop Online Participation

Essentially, only 'content owners' can post material; by 'content owners' they mean **AA, et al.

Much farther-reaching than the title of the bill lets on.  This could effectively outlaw software like VPN, TOR, etc.  This is scary; China is currently less restrictive.

It seems like if anyone disagrees with anything online, all they would need to do is post a link to torrents or warez on the blog/forum/site.

http://www.itworld.com/security/224681/sopa-sponsors-deride-criticisms-myths

There are many. many more links on this abomination.

2 comments:

  1. More articles...

    http://www.techdirt.com/blog/?tag=sopa

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  2. Ugh, this makes me quite ill. I'm about ready to live like a luddite. -CC

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