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CENSORSHIP:

Wide Backlash Greets Internet Antipiracy Bill

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Wide Backlash Greets Internet Antipiracy Bill

By Sanhita Sinha Roy

#alamw12

American Libraries

http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/news/
11222011/wide-backlash-greets-internet-antipiracy-bill

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http://tinyurl.com/84jlk26

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Groups from both ends of the political spectrumand everything in
betweenhave come out against a congressional bill that would require
internet service providers to police users online activities for potential
copyright infringement and would empower the U.S. attorney general to
order the removal from the domain name system of any website that engages
in, enables, or facilitates infringement.

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Introduced October 26 by Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), chair of the House
Judiciary Committee, the Stop Online Piracy Act (H.R. 3261) has a number
of high-profile supporters, among them members of the entertainment
industry, pharmaceutical companies, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
These groups claim the internet currently challenges their ability to
innovate because of piracy threats to their proprietary content.

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Critics say that, while internet piracy is a legitimate concern,
provisions in the current bill are far too overreaching and would result
in a gross invasion of users privacy and strip online creativity and
growth.

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On November 15, the American Library Association, along with several civil
liberties organizations, wrote a letter (PDF file) to House leaders,
saying SOPA would set an irreversible precedent that encourages the
fracturing of the internet, undermines freedom of expression worldwide,
and has numerous other unintended and harmful consequences.

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For example, the bill would grant internet service providers the ability
to flag something as innocent as a video of a person singing a favorite
song, according to the Free Press Action Fund. SOPA would also permit a
private company to sue service providers for even briefly and unwittingly
hosting content that it deemed an infringement on copyright.

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Corey Williams, associate director of ALAs Washington Office, blogged
November 15 that SOPA raised specific copyright-related concerns for
libraries, one of which is that the bill would impose criminal sanctions
for public performances including streaming: Public performances would
include digital works transmitted to classrooms, including those at a
distance and even those of a noncommercial nature.

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The complete article may be read at the URL above.

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Constitutional Scholars Explain Why SOPA & PROTECT IP Do Not Pass First
Amendment Scrutiny

from the good-for-them dept

Tech Dirt

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111208/15442917016/
constitutional-scholars-explain-why-sopa-protect-
ip-do-not-pass-first-amendment-scrutiny.shtml

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http://tinyurl.com/7j6e32t

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Bill Text

112th Congress (2011-2012)

H.R.3261.IH

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:H.R.3261:

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Chairman Lamar Smith
Committee on the Judiciary
2138 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
The Honorable John Conyers, Jr.
Chairman

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Committee on the Judiciary
2138 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515The Honorable Lamar Smith
Re: H.R. 3261, the Stop Online Piracy Act

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Dear Chairman Smith and Ranking Member Conyers,

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As press freedom and human rights advocates, we write to express our deep
concern with H.R. 3261, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). While this is a
domestic bill, there are several provisions within SOPA that would have
serious implications for international civil and human rights which raise
concerns about how the United States is approaching global internet
governance. The United States has long been a strong advocate for the
protection and promotion of an open Internet. However, by
institutionalizing the use of internet censorship tools to enforce
domestic law in the United States creates a paradox that undermines its
moral authority to criticize repressive regimes.1 We urge the United
States to uphold its proclaimed responsibility as a leader in internet
freedom and reject bills that will censor or fragment the web.

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Through SOPA, the United States is attempting to dominate a shared global
resource. Building a nationwide firewall and creating barriers for
international website and service operators makes a powerful statement
that the United States is not interested in participating in a global
information infrastructure. Instead, the United States would be creating
the very barriers that restrict the free flow of information that it has
vigorously challenged abroad. By imposing technical changes to the open
internet while eroding due process, SOPA introduces a deeply concerning
degree of legal uncertainty into the internet economy, particularly for
businesses and users internationally. Business cannot be conducted online
when international users and businesses do not have faith that their
access to payments, domain names, and advertising will be available,
raising challenges to economic development and innovation. This is as
unacceptable to the international community as it would be if a foreign
country were to impose similar measures on the United States.

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The provisions in SOPA on DNS filtering in particular will have severe
consequences

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http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/mediapolicyproject/2011/11/02/
freedom-abroad-repression-at-home-the-clinton-now-cameron-paradox/

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Whats in a name? So-called anti-piracy copyright legislation

Posted on November 15, 2011

by Corey W

District Dispatch

http://www.districtdispatch.org/2011/11/
what%E2%80%99s-in-a-name-so-called-anti-piracy-copyright-legislation-2/

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We had already mentioned that one of the foremost Constitutional scholars
around, Laurence Tribe, had come out against Congress's attempts to modify
copyright law through SOPA. Some complained that he didn't get into
specifics. However, he's now sent a letter detailing the problems in the
bill (pdf) and why it violates the First Amendment. There are many, many
reasons, with lots of details and citations, but here's just an example:

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Can Defenders Of SOPA Explain How You Define Taking Deliberate Action To
Avoid Taking Action?

from the the-problem-of-definitions dept

Tech Dirt

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111110/16032716714/
can-defenders-sopa-explain-how-you-define-taking-
deliberate-action-to-avoid-taking-action.shtml

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http://tinyurl.com/7xhsou6

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Filtering Whitepaper: Introduction

Public Knowledge

http://www.publicknowledge.org/paper/pk-filtering-whitepaper_1

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How The SOPA Will Stifle Soccer In The United States

http://afootballreport.com/post/14133091216/
how-the-sopa-will-stifle-soccer-in-the-united-states

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http://tinyurl.com/7soo8ab

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US clampdown worse than the great firewall

If you thought Chinas Internet censorship was evil, think again. American
moves to clean up the Web could hurt global surfers

Sunil Abraham

Tehelka

http://www.tehelka.com/story_main51.asp?filename=Op171211proscons.asp

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TWO PARTICULARLY terrible pieces of legislation the PROTECT-IP Act and
the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) have been introduced in the US Senate
and House of Representatives. If passed, the US administration will be
empowered to shut down specific websites using the same four measures it
employed in its failed attempt to shut down WikiLeaks domain name system
(DNS) filtering, blocking financial transfers via financial
intermediaries, revoking hosting and sanitising search engine results.
SOPA represents the perfect policy interest overlap between a State
clamping down on freedom of expression and IPR-holders protecting their
obsolete business models. After all it was Bono who publicly articulated
the unspoken desire of many right-holders: We know from Chinas ignoble
effort to suppress online dissent that its perfectly possible to track
content.

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China fortunately only censors the Internet for its own citizens, the
Great Firewall does not, for example, prevent access to knowledge by
Indian netizens. SOPA will enable the US to censor the global Internet
unilaterally. The Great Firewall can be circumvented using tools like Tor,
but SOPA will in many ways make its targets disappear for the average
user. DNS filtering, even when implemented in a single country, has global
consequences. DNS, one of the foundational mechanisms of the Internet, is
an address look-up service that allows users to translate domain names
(e.g. cisindia.org easier for humans to remember) into IP addresses (e.g.
202.190.125.69 easier for machines). The most critical servers in the
global DNS hierarchy are the root servers, or todays server clusters.
Mandated DNS filtering would result in some DNS servers returning
different IP addresses than other DNS servers for certain domain names.
With PROTECT-IP and SOPA, these global consequences would be at
unprecedented levels given that seven of the 13 server clusters that
constitute the DNS root fall within US jurisdiction. We already have some
indication where this is headed. The US Immigration and Customs
Enforcement Agency announced recently that it has seized 150 domain names
for alleged IPR infringement.

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Kill Bill: Anti-SOPA Forces Amass

Encouraged to use whatever means necessary to drive calls and e-mails to
Congress

By John Eggerton

Broadcasting and Cable

12/12/2011 10:16:21 AM

http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/
477751-Kill_Bill_Anti_SOPA_Forces_Amass.php

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http://tinyurl.com/bwt3khx

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Forces opposed to the Stop Online Privacy (SOPA), including a number of
Web sites, computer companies, fair use advocates and the consumer
electronics companies, are marshaling their forces for a Thursday (Dec.
15) mark-up of the bill in the House Judiciary Committee. The bill has the
support of both the chairman of the committee and ranking members.

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Public Knowledge sent an e-mail Monday to its members asking them to
contact their legislator in what they called the next battle in "the long
war" against the bill.

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That followed a conference call strategy session of tech firms and
advocacy groups over the weekend to plot strategy to "kill" the bill,
including driving calls to House members, according to David Segal,
executive director of Demand Progress, the progressive lobby group that
has launched campaigns for net neutrality and against Comcast and AT&T's
"three strikes" policy on streaming infringing content.

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"We have the best chance of making a difference on this bill if we can
push hundreds of thousands of calls into the House of Representatives
Monday through Thursday," Segal said in his own e-mail action plan Monday.
"This is because it's crucial our voices are heard BEFORE the bill enters
the mark-up (voting) stage in the House Judiciary committee."

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He provided the following "to-do list":

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1."Use whatever means necessary to drive users to our central portal --
FightForTheFuture.org -- where people will be prompted to call their House
Representative and given the tools to know what to say and how to say it.

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2.Spread our censorship tools -- please visit AmericanCensorship.org to
find a tool that lets anyone redact portions of a tweet, Facebook post,
blog post, etc. The redaction will be a link back to the
AmericanCensorship.org page to drive calls.

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3.Drive people to IWorkforTheInternet.org to post pictures of themselves
to tell the world that the Internet is an engine of jobs growth in this
country.

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SOPA will not stop piracy, only the flow of information

The Hammer of Truth

http://hammeroftruth.com/2011/
sopa-will-not-stop-piracy-only-the-flow-of-information/

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