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Jibz:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act

http://www.mozilla.org/sopa/

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3243482

I .. just .. don't even know where to start :huh:.

Carol Haynes:
If it happens it will have an interesting effect on the US economy as servers start moving offshore.

Surely it will be challenged anyway under the first amendment because removing sites that can 'potentially' break copyright is not the same as stopping sites that deliberately flaunt copyright laws (most of which probably in the US)!

Deozaan:
If it happens it will have an interesting effect on the US economy as servers start moving offshore.
-Carol Haynes (November 16, 2011, 11:05 AM)
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That's one of the issues that the Protect IP Act is designed to deal with. Servers that are outside of USA jurisdiction.

Here's another petition I saw recently that seems a bit better organized that the Avaaz one: http://fightforthefuture.org/pipa/

But I think it requires you to actually live in the USA so it can send a letter directly to your specific representative(s).

Stoic Joker:
Signed ^that one^ too.

Carol Haynes:
That's one of the issues that the Protect IP Act is designed to deal with. Servers that are outside of USA jurisdiction.
-Deozaan (November 16, 2011, 05:13 PM)
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So if large numbers of main stream servers move out of the USA the government will block them - and that isn't going to get into a class action of epic proportions on the grounds of freedom of speech.

The US government can posture and cow-tow to the film and music industries as much as they like they won't be shutting down the likes of YouTube any time soon. If they do there will be another shot heard around the world as sites like YouTube, for all its faults and frustrations, are seen by many to be the last bastions of free speech in the US.

Torrent sharing sites are perhaps a different matter but as fast as governments close them down they reappear on different servers in different countries. Look at WikiLeaks as an example of a site governments would love, and tried, to shutdown - all it did was proliferate on a global scale.

Prohibition didn't work in the US - internet prohibition isn't going to work any better - it will just create innovation and a lot of bureaucrats chasing shadows.

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