S.O.P.AStop Online Piracy Act

By Claudine Magtoto and Jordan Dejean

Introduction Of The Bill• Stop Online Privacy

Act• It was introduced to

the House of representatives.

• By Lamar S. Smith (Republican)

• It was introduced October 26 2011

Who is in favor of this Bill?• The TV, Movie, and music

industries are the highest donors for the 2012 committee to help get this bill passed. Also book publishers are in favor of this bill.

• This is because this law protects their copyrights as the producers.

Arguments For SOPA

•Jobs are threatened by rogue websites.•It would help prevent the distribution of

pirated goods that cost the government an estimated $100 Billion a year.

•SOPA can employ 19 million people and create $7.7 trillion in gross output.

Who is against the bill?• Google and Wikipedia are

two examples of groups against SOPA.

• Wikipedia shut down for an entire day in response to talk of SOPA, only displaying the message “Imagine a world without free knowledge”

• Google put a censer bar over their logo and inserted a link saying “Tell congress, don’t censer the web.”

Arguments Against SOPA

•The Alleged infringed site will suffer even if claims are false.

•The blockage of websites is censorship, which violates the first amendment of free speech and press.

What Exactly would this bill do?

•Internet service providers would be forced to block websites that infringe on copyrights.

•Also Payment providers, advertisers, and search engines could not do associate with a violating website.

•SOPA doesn’t just apply to the internet, but also counterfeit consumer goods and medications.

•SOPA targets the sites that hosting unauthorized content.

Companies that participated in the internet blackout:• Reddit• Wikipedia• Mozilla• Wordpress• ICanHasCheezBurger• Moveon.org

Bibliography

•http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act

•http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-57329001-281/how-sopa-would-affect-you-faq/

•http://www.pcworld.com/article/248298/sopa_and_pipa_just_the_facts.html

•http://fastcheetahs.com/censorme/•http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_16

2-57360665-503544/sopa-pipa-what-you-need-to-know/