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Committee consideration by House Judiciary Committee. The Stop Online Piracy Act ( SOPA) was a proposed United States congressional bill to expand the ability of U.S. law enforcement to combat online copyright infringement and online trafficking in counterfeit goods.
Jan 17, 2022 · Ten years ago, a diverse coalition of internet users, non-profit groups, and internet companies defeated the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA), bills that would have forced internet companies to blacklist and block websites accused of hosting copyright-infringing content. These were bills that would have made censorship very easy, all in the name of copyright ...
Had these bills been passed five or ten years ago, even YouTube might not exist today — in other words, the collateral damage from this legislation would be enormous. There are already laws and procedures in place for taking down sites that violate the law.
SOPA and PIPA are, essentially, two versions of the same anti-piracy bill. SOPA is the House of Representative’s version ( House Bill HR. 3261 ), while PIPA resides in the Senate ( Senate Bill S. 968 ). Both SOPA and PIPA are intended to curb online piracy, specifically piracy facilitated by “foreign rogue websites,” meaning sites that ...
Protests against SOPA and PIPA. An online protest by Google. On January 18, 2012, as a Google Doodle, Google placed a censor bar over their normal logo (the 2010–2013 logo), which when clicked took visitors to pages with information on SOPA and PIPA. On January 18, 2012, a series of coordinated protests occurred against two proposed laws in ...
Jan 10, 2022 · January 18 is an historic marker of solidarity, a public interest victory. As so, ten years later, Creative Commons again joins many organizations to reflect and continue the work. Please join us, and many others, by attending a series of SOPA Plus 10 events starting January 18, 2022. Our goal is to promote the values of free and open internet ...
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Dec 22, 2011 · Stands like these are an important touchpoint when you read or hear about the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA, and its sister bill in the Senate, the Protect IP Act, or PIPA. Both bills attempt to ...
