H.R.3261 “Stop Online Piracy Act” and S.968 “PROTECT IP”, could radically change the landscape of the Internet. These bills provide overly broad mechanisms for enforcement of copyright which would restrict innovation and threaten the existence of websites with user-submitted content, such as youtube, reddit and google.
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Ryan
21/01/2012
We are told that SOPA only targets non-US sites but who cares, there are no borders on the internet. So all sites are US sites the same as they are UK sites, German site, etc. All sites are global by the very nature of the internet so it will absolutely affect those of us in the US.