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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
Any hosting, credit card processor, isp, etc. That shut down your site on the strength of an anon email. Is a company you shouldn't be doing business with and opening themselves to a ton of trouble.
Go read the act and try to understand it. It has something that says the ISP has to reasonably believe the site is breaking the law. So an anon email and not checking if the site is breaking the law, is going to look pretty foolish in court.
Of course for the ISPs to check each registered letter will take extra work and extra staff, which people will have to pay for. This might mean they think twice before doing business with Tube, file sharing sites, piracy sites, etc. Or put up their prices. Cost of doing business and staying within the law. Just like Google will have to employ more people to check Youtube, or close. 
How will life function without Youtube!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Seriously does anyone think a company is going to risk crashing a site because [email protected] sent a notice?  |
That's the problem, the law specifically gives them IMMUNITY from being prosecuted for wrongfully shutting down a site.
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Originally Posted by SOPA SEC. 104
no liability for damages to any person shall be granted against, a service provider, payment network provider, Internet advertising service, advertiser, Internet search engine, domain name registry, or domain name registrar for taking any action described in section 102(c)(2), section 103(d)(2), or section 103(b) with respect to an Internet site, or otherwise voluntarily blocking access to or ending financial affiliation with an Internet site
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So if any of these companies, ad networks, advertisers, search engines, registrars or registries don't want to pay the extra cost of actually investigating if the claim is true or not, they can just shut it down and be done with it. It's easier for godaddy to just block your domain rather than actually look into whether or not you're actually doing something wrong. And how are they gonna know anyways whether you have a license for everything on your site?