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Originally Posted by raymor
The opposition had much better spin. Many people violently oppose the horrible things that they were told SOPA would do. I'm against SOPA as written, but having read it I'm not nearly as passionate in my position as many people are. I think theft SHOULD have consequences and also I think SOPA needed to be more specific and clear.
I think that with SOPA the opposition just did a much better job of spin. Many, if not most, people believe the bill had draconian stuff on it that just plain wasn't there. Practically noone seems to know that under SOPA nothing would happen unless a judge ruled that the site is dedicated to nothing but piracy.
The anti-SOPA spinsters successfully convinced people that if someone posted a comment on your blog that linked to infringing material the site could be taken down. That's simply false, but the idea (lie) enraged a lot of people. I guess that's OK because it was a bad law anyway. Not NEARLY as bad as people who never read it think, but bad nevertheless.
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Not that I believed for one second you have read a single word of SOPA, but it took me all of half a minute, including Googling the document, to find a passage that demonstrates you have no idea what you are talking about.
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SEC. 102. ACTION BY ATTORNEY GENERAL TO PROTECT U.S. CUSTOMERS AND PREVENT U.S. SUPPORT OF FOREIGN INFRINGING SITES.
(a) Definition- For purposes of this section, a foreign Internet site or portion thereof is a `foreign infringing site' if--
(1) the Internet site or portion thereof is a U.S.-directed site and is used by users in the United States;
(2) the owner or operator of such Internet site is committing or facilitating the commission of criminal violations punishable under section 2318, 2319, 2319A, 2319B, or 2320, or chapter 90, of title 18, United States Code; and
(3) the Internet site would, by reason of acts described in paragraph (1), be subject to seizure in the United States in an action brought by the Attorney General if such site were a domestic Internet site.
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Linking to a site which contains infringing material is not "facilitating" piracy or counterfeiting? Really? Says who?