I've been hearing about it in the last few months, and it sounds scary. From what everyone is saying it will ruin the internet. Yet there doesn't seem to be a lot of discourse about it. Even on here, where a law like this would have a serious effect on what we do, no one seems all that concerned.
So how will this affects us as Canadians? What can we do?
ChemEnhanced
I'm all for stopping piracy
patpicos
In a nutshell, from what I understand is that the media companies want to hold search engines, website owners, and ISP's accountable for the links returned in search results and web pages if the remote link contains copyrighted content.
Ultimately, it is not their role to police the internet. This is a cheap attempt at making the internet in the USA look like China where censorship can be enabled quickly. Ohhhh this article contained a piece of information I did not give permission to publish...bam it needs to be blacked out from the internet.
Dear media companies....if you want to enforce your copyright rights...then do it yourself. Dont burden everyone to do it for you.
SOPA must die!
Orko
Swamper how does this effect TA, considering the site is hosting in Texas? And, I'm sure you get a tonne of take down notices from copyright holders.
jester
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Originally posted by spitty
So how will this affects us as Canadians? What can we do?
Not good. I have a feeling many of us will be sent to the US. Just look at Britain, they are shipping over one of their own citizens, because he was allowing people to access tv shows and what not.
If Google and others dislike what the US is planning. They should fire all their employees and move their servers somewhere else. So Google and all you larger corporations out there, please destroy the US economy. I know that is crazy, if the US goes down we go down, but that will be an eye opener we shouldn't have to be so connected to the US and rely on them.
