.com .net .org Immune To SOPA Shutdown?
 

Apparently it all comes down to the fact that The Pirate Bay has a .org domain ? and according to Masnick, the current version of the SOPA bill working its way through congress excludes American domestic domains from being the target of takedown notices from copyright holders. In this case, a ?domestic domain? is any domain that comes from a TLD run by an American registry ? and sure enough, .org?s registry is Public Interest Registry, a US non-profit based in Virginia. In other words, thepiratebay.org isn?t eligible for a SOPA-based takedown, even if its servers are based in Sweden or another country outside the US.

Believe it or not, by the same logic, .com and .net domains ? both of which are managed by American company VeriSign ? would also be immune from the SOPA bill as it currently stands.

http://www.extremetech.com/computing...immune-to-sopa

gfy legal experts please confirm.

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thank god...i dunno what I would do if they shut that down

guess i should scratch my link list project.

how can a law passed by US congress have an effect on the rest of the world?

unless they somehow make it international and EU ratifies it

still...

Because it's our internet. :winkwink:

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Perhaps I misunderstand, but won't all the foreign sites remain untouched, just censored from the eyes of Americans? We sell all of China's products, they own our debt, it's the logical next step that we adopt their censorship laws :)

they just have some things to fix is all.

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Nothing will be "censored". All of that content is available if you PAY for it.
Some people are actually IN the porn business here and understand the difference between stopping people from stealing vs. censorship.

By your theory...I am being "censored" from being able to walk into Best Buy and just taking any television I want without paying for it.

thats what i was thinking just because a law passes in the usa everybody else should follow hahahahahahahahaha

Hopefully the author knows more about law than he does about firearms, because that makes no sense for a couple of reasons.

No shit all of the content is available if you pay for it. But, all the sites with content that is reported as copyright infringing will be censored.

What does being in the porn business have to do with understanding the difference between stopping stealing vs. censorship? Only people IN the porn business have such remarkable abilities? But us low life affiliates and the rest of the world don't understand such complex matters.

I didn't propose a theory, I asked a question. Your analogy is ridiculous. And your sensitivity is feminine, christ dude, reread my post and try to calm yourself a bit before you reply.

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let;s get back on track here. so if those domain extensions are exempt what is the point of sopa then?

seems like it maybe set up to go after counterfeit goods websites, foreign pharmacies and the like.

will most likely not affect porn in the slightest.

Oh shit ... :1orglaugh:1orglaugh

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I don't think there's any truth to these TLD's being "immune" to SOPA. Otherwise, like Porno Jew mentioned... there would literally be no point to the bill. SOPA targets sites that are for the express purpose of facilitating piracy. There should be no TLD exclusions.

I think you're absolutely right. If the government had any interest in stopping porn piracy we would see justice department logos on more than just the domains the MPAA tells them to confiscate.

actually the more i look into it it seems like it's just for "foreign" websites, however that is defined.

seems like canadian pharmacies were one of the inspirations for the bill.

Keeps the cards in the hands of the good old USA, makes sense.

I have heard that SOPA was designed to allow copyright holders to get to foreign violators DMCA was otherwise unable to touch. So DMCA will still be the rules we play by when it comes to domestic situations?

the amendment referred to ...
http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/...0Amendment.pdf

possibly. looks that way.

depends on what a foreign website is. all the filelockers are incorporated in china but have .com addresses. are they foreign?

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/201...une-sopa.shtml

source is mike masnick writer for techdirt http://www.techdirt.com/user/mmasnick

No, you theorized that blocking pirate sites = censorship.

As for being in the porn business...that is what this board is SUPPOSED to be about. If we were on a forum for Hollywood movie companies I would have used that instead.

Only people without skin in the game think that stopping people from stealing is "censorship".

That's all I'm saying. As for "feminine"...you can read it any way you like. I can tell you that if you were hearing me say this to you in a "real" conversation you wouldn't mistake my feelings as "feminine" when it comes to piracy.

Matter of fact, it pisses me off pretty good. Somebody takes money out of my pocket...I ain't happy. Somebody steals my work, I'm gonna hurt them. You would feel the exact same way about it.

please keep on topic.

I think blocking anything from my view is censorship, yes. But, I also believe that illegal sites that offer pirated content should be shut down and the owners prosecuted. Just because I don't produce the porn, doesn't mean I don't have an interest in protecting it. I can't promote something and sell it when someone else gives it away for free. I lose money too.

I'm sure you're pissed off about it, I can tell from your comment. But, you're directing your anger at the wrong person. I'm not pro piracy, I want to creatively market content to make sales, and compete with other creative people. I can't compete with thieves.

So again, not pro piracy, just anti censorship. I do feel the same way you do, which is why I didn't understand the response you gave me.

Sorry Porno Jew, the thread is yours again.

Sopa.....

I didn't mean to imply that I was angry at you personally.

It's just that when you're in my shoes, and you read a lot of different people who sort of seem to have an attitude that nothing should be done about piracy...they all start to sort of blur together after a while.

But it wasn't an attack on you. Sorry if it came across that way.

In my position it just makes a person a bit tired of hearing people who aren't having their stuff stolen make broad statements about a law that I've been waiting on for 4 years.

To address your comment "blocking anything from my view is censorship" :
You're not having anything blocked from your view that you can't see by paying the rightful owner.
For instance, right now you can not "see" what's going on in your local strip club. There is a door there, and they won't let us in unless we pay. So are we having it "blocked from our view"?
No, if we pay the cover charge we can go in and see it.

Pirate sites (the ones being targeted very specifically by this law) have NOTHING original on them. It's a "pirate" site.
Meaning that we aren't being censored from seeing anything that isn't already widely available.

That's my point. Hope that makes sense of where I'm coming from.

It is censorship though, by very definition. It is LITERALLY the definition of censorship.

You're only ok with it because it's convenient for you.

It sucks, but the way the internet is designed and the laws governing copyright put the favor on the side of piracy. Again, that sucks. However I would rather let the favor rest on the side of the criminals than begin infringing on the freedoms of the citizens of this country. Instead of sticking to our virtues and coming up with the right solution to the problem (no matter how difficult it would be to accomplish), we've said fuck it that is too hard and opted to just censor the web.

someone define what a "foreign website" is.

one with brown people on

Your insights know no bounds.

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