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Originally Posted by Robbie
Exactly how would that bill hurt this "industry"? That's a serious question. This "industry" has been almost gutted to the ground by piracy already. There ain't a whole lot left (in comparison to what it was 4 years ago).
So what exactly would the bill do to "hurt" us?
What could it do to hurt claudiamarie.com? I don't really give a fuck about my free sites and affiliate work anymore because piracy and tube sites full of full scenes have already destroyed that.
I just want somebody to tell me how it's going to hurt MY business in any way. All I see it doing is making it more profitable. And no...I don't want to hear about people losing their "freedom" to steal shit. I want to know in black and white terms EXACTLY how this bill is going to hurt MY business and cost me money...you know the way piracy already has.
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Robbie,
You replied to my first comment in this thread. I hope you also read my other comments here as they answer your questions.
Do I know what's going to happen to your business? Of course not, I'm not psychic. Can I think of a couple of ways SOPA can be used to harm your business? Ok, here goes:
Let's say you pissed off X.
- X contacts your biller and accuses you of hosting/selling content he owns the rights to.
- Your biller now has 5 days to contact you and tell you to stop violating the accuser's rights.
- If within those 5 days the content is not removed, your biller has to make a decision: either stop doing business with you or automatically become liable/responsible for the alleged IP rights violation in question.
That means if your biller chooses to continue doing business with you, it risks being taken to court over the (alleged) IP rights violation.
You'll probably say:
But I own all the rights to my content. Hell, I even married the model. All of that is irrelevant under SOPA. Under the immunity clause anyone (biller, hos, registrar,...) that cuts you off in order to comply with a SOPA notice will not be responsible for any damage to your business (loss of income etc).
So if your biller gets a SOPA notice, it cannot be sued by you if it cuts you off, but it can be sued by the accuser (for the IP rights violation, you are being accused of) if it doesn't cut you of. How many hosting companies, billers, registrars, ad networks etc are equipped to do a full investigation and willing to make a decision to take a stand (and risk being taken to court over the alleged actions of a 3rd party) in under 5 days?
Under SOPA, it's you, the accused, that would have to take X to court to prove he's wrong.
In all fairness, If you take X to court and X looses, X could of course be held accountable and be sued for damages. Only problem: your business would already be dead in the water by then.