The legislation in question targets foreign companies whose primary purpose is to sell stolen or counterfeit goods -- but opponents say domestic companies could still be held liable for linking to their content. While sites like Reddit wouldn't have a legal duty to monitor their sites all the time, "you might have your pants sued off of you" if you don't, said Jayme White, staff director for the Senate Finance Subcommittee on international trade.
Brad Burnham, managing partner at the venture capital fund Union Square Ventures, said his company has avoided investing in companies related to the music industry because of the copyright risks -- but under the proposed legislation, that risk would hit just about any Internet company. That should be a concern, Burnham said, when the Internet accounts for 21 percent of economic growth among developed nations, according to one study.
The impacts could go beyond the economy, some argue. Rebecca MacKinnon, a senior fellow at the nonpartisan New America Foundation, argues that if blogging platforms are motivated to monitor their content, that could have "a tremendous chilling effect on people tyring to conduct political discourse and trying to use content in a fair use context.
Opponents of SOPA and PIPA celebrated when, earlier this month, authors of both bills decided to set aside the most controversial aspect of them -- language that would have let the Justice Department force Internet Service Providers to block the domains of suspected foreign "rogue" sites. Also, over the weekend, the White House suggested it wants to see modifications to the legislation.
Darrell Issa, R-Calif. International Trade Commission ITC , an independent agency that handles trademark infringement and other trade disputes. OPEN's backers had posted the draft legislation online and invited the Web community to comment on and revise the proposal. SOPA supporters counter that the ITC doesn't have the resources for digital enforcement, and that giving it those resources would be too expensive.
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This could theoretically involve an entire website being shut down because it contains a link to a suspect site. US-based internet service providers, payment processors and advertisers would be outlawed from doing business with alleged copyright infringers.
Sopa also calls for search engines to remove infringing sites from their results - Pipa does not include this provision. The bills would also outlaw sites from containing information about how to access blocked sites. The bills originally demanded that internet service providers block users from being able to access suspect sites using a technique called Domain Name System DNS blocking.
This would effectively make them "disappear" from the internet - and is a process already used in China and Iran. As part of the Green Screen project, which engages citizens in contemporary issues through films and debates, we explored how the recovery could lead us to more fair and just societies where everyone has equality of opportunity. This month, we featured the film 'When Tomatoes Met Wagner' and held a debate on the agricultural sector and food.
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