SOPA(Stop Online Piracy Act)

Mr O'Dwyer's site was shut down by US authorities as part of a crackdown by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. But he soon re-opened it at a different address and is alleged to have posted the message: "F**k the police" on its front page.

I'm not sure if it's completely beaten, but Obama said the White house won't support the SOPA bill so... the hearing on JAN 18th was postponed, I guess. I don't know how reliable this is since someone on skype linked me but here's the article.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/14/white-house-sopa-pipa_n_1206347.html

I would guess that only the large content owners with the resources will decide which sites gets the shaft. They will demand compensation for damages "or else". Who is going to make sure these companies aren't abusing their power? Will it be congress? (clueless morons). Some appointed team of easily bought government officials?

All these problems are created to try to stop piracy. /smh

I have considered in doing something for FFXIAH in the spirit of raising awareness of the issue.

SOPA is all but dead.

PIPA, the senate equivalent is still alive though.

sauce

GoDaddy lost well over 100,000 domains in the space of about 10 days due to their involvement with these bills, along with other various targets.

Wow, lol.

Wow, lol.

Ya know, no matter how much we all are against it, PIPA and SOPA are gonna eventually pass.

Just because SOPA is shelved doesn't mean it's dead. They're gonna pass it in a few months once people forget about it.

Welcome to US politics.

Did anyone else notice that they only pursued him in this fashion after he started up another site and antagonized them?



As for SOPA I'm against it. While I do think some remedies should be available to prevent pirating and the like, this seems to far over reach that goal.

didnt know about the first issue he talks about.
interesting video.

You know when I heard about all that leave goDaddy stuff and when that day came I remember hearing something about [goDaddy] requiring ID's to change registrars.

Interesting, I wonder if I'll have to do the same to transfer registrars. I use a different service [not goDaddy] and will be switching to something cheaper.

TL;DR - Adam is saying that the new top-level domains will require that you prove your identity when you register with them.
First of all, I don't see any evidence of that. None of the links that he provides include any such claim.
Second, he is claiming this only applies to the new global top level domains. So, who cares? Nobody's going to use those anyway. They're going the way of .biz and .info -- a permanently boring ghetto.
Adam also says "The entire reason for even trying to get a DNS provision into law is because it is nearly impossible to track down the owner of a website, or domain name, through today's registration tools."
That's not, actually, the reason. The reason to get the DNS provision into law is to shut down websites operated from outside the United States where the US does not have jurisdiction.
It is relatively easy for law enforcement to track down the owner of a domain. It resolves to an IP address. The IP address is routed by hardware. The hardware is located in physical space. As long as it's all in the United States, it's just not that hard to find the operator of a website based on the domain name, and that is not what the entertainment lobby is concerned about. They are concerned with what happens when the operator is outside the US and they don't have jurisdiction, so they want laws passed to ensure that US-based ISPs are obliged to block access to foreign infringers.
Adam's analysis in this case is flat-out wrong.