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Just one more thing! Please confirm your subscription to Verge Deals via the verification email we just sent you. Email required. While the bill would only affect US access to websites, the global ramifications would be considerable. It is also one of the most stupid bacronyms ever invented. The Entertainment Software Association ESA , the owner and organiser of game show E3 and representative of nearly all major video game publishers, publicly supports SOPA, although opposition has now spread to some of its member companies.
The likes of Bungie, GOG. The list of SOPA supporters can be viewed online, although few video game companies are present. You can declare your opposition to it via a PIPA petition website.
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The bills, she says, are the creation of the entertainment, or "content", industries: "Sopa, in particular, was negotiated without any consultation with the technology sector. They were specifically excluded. He said in a December House judiciary committee hearing, "We're basically going to reconfigure the Internet and how it's going to work, without bringing in the nerds. Pipa sponsor Senator Patrick Leahy Democrat, Vermont said in a press release, "Much of what has been claimed about [Pipa] is flatly wrong and seems intended more to stoke fear and concern than to shed light or foster workable solutions.
Said Dodd of the broadbased, grassroots internet protest, "It's a dangerous and troubling development when the platforms that serve as gateways to information intentionally skew the facts to incite their users in order to further their corporate interests. People are really rising up and saying: 'Don't interfere with basic Internet infrastructure. We won't stand for it. Josh Levy, campaign manager for Free Press, said in a Tuesday conference call supporting the protest that "This is the biggest revolt we've seen online" against U.
But what's all the fuss about? Here's an explainer of the basics of the bills, the protests and how you make your voice heard. Leaders in the House and Senate also buckled to widespread pressure and announced they would at least temporarily remove those DNS-redirecting requirements. That provision would have required ISPs to prevent Americans from visiting blacklisted sites by altering the system known as DNS that turns site names like Google.
Instead, for the blacklisted sites, ISPs would have to lie to their customers and tell their browsers that the site doesn't exist. Unfortunately, that has serious security implications and undermines government-led efforts to prevent hackers from hijacking the net's naming system in order to scam users.
Those sites would disappear in a process that security experts said would damage internet security. While DNS blacklisting was the most egregious portion of the bill and a clear indicator that Congress didn't know what it was doing, what's left in the bills continue to have serious implications on the First Amendment and online freedom. The bills give the Justice Department the power to seek court orders requiring search engines like Google not to render search results for infringing websites.
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