ddevans96.
It's three bills before congress,
I've read SOPA, and most of Protect IP, although I haven't gotten through all of Protect IP's yet, and half of OPEN
SOPA and PIPA are the ones that are the most dangerous, OPEN is much better and is the EFF's proposal, but I still don't like OPEN, but for different reasons
A big part of it is the wording and methods.
You are right to initially get around SOPA and PIPA, most sites will simply shift their domains over to a foreign registrar to get around the DNS blocking for example... but that's just opening a greater security risk for commerce than we already have. But let's say they take the DNS provision out as some are saying they will...
You still have a major fair use / free speech change to be done in the language, that significantly grants more copyright power. Now granted it would be challenged in the Supreme Court most likely, but we don't know those results either...
However, there
So is it going to shutdown the internet overnight, absolutely not.
So why push, it's time for a by gone age to be gone. The internet has not had much effect and strength yet as a body, but it's growing and the collective including your opinion is shifting the way the U.S. works, as you will see in another posting... many like me are hoping this would be the thing to start shifting the momentum... enough to overhaul the copyright and patent systems as a whole a year or two down the line. Also, to show that the Corporate control of the media is losing it's hold. There is much more on the line, the world's ideologies are changing, America's ideologies are changing, it just so happens a battle line was drawn here... so pick a side, but don't call it silly.
