Posted on 01/13/2012 3:55:36 PM PST by Smogger
In a move the technology sector will surely see as a victory, a controversial antipiracy bill being debated in Congress will no longer include a provision that would require ISPs to block access to overseas Web sites accused of piracy.
Rep. Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas), one of the biggest backers of the Stop Online Piracy Act, today said he plans to remove the Domain Name System or DNS-blocking provision.
"After consultation with industry groups across the country," Smith said in a statement released by his office, "I feel we should remove DNS-blocking from the Stop Online Piracy Act so that the [U.S. House Judiciary] Committee can further examine the issues surrounding this provision.
"We will continue to look for ways," Smith continued, "to ensure that foreign Web sites cannot sell and distribute illegal content to U.S. consumers."
A watered down SOPA means Smith improves his chances of getting the bill through Congress. Smith's move comes a day after a backers of a similar bill in the Senate, known as the Protect IP Act, began to backtrack on the issue of DNS.
Without the DNS provision, SOPA now looks a great deal more like the OPEN Act, a bill introduced by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), which was created to be an alternative bill to SOPA.
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ping.
According to THIS guy, c/net DISTRIBUTED the piracy software that they are now fighting against!!!!
Something STINKS about SOPA.
It’s not about PIRACY-it’s about POWER.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJIuYgIvKsc&feature=related
Time for Lamar to go back and play with his cows.
Dropping the DNS provision is good. But SOPA still needs to be dropped entirely.
It’s all about power. Dangerous power that could easily be abused. So why give it to them?
The goal is for SOPA to be destroyed. Anything else is incremental.
Completely unaffected is the part of the bill that will allow the gvt to shutdown FR if they want to.
oh, I know they need a “reason.” But that’s never stopped them before.
Intrinsic in all these idiot laws that attempt to “protect” us from the big bad internet is the governments overwhelming desire and need to feel they are in control of everything. They can’t stand that a single thing may be outside their jurisdiction. It’s a power-trip thing.
Sure you can trust government. Ask any Indian.
It’ll be put back in during conference or through a bureaucracy.
Stop it or regret it. There’s no need to regulate the Internet. It’s doing fine without the government. You’ll never end pirating, just drive it out of business with a better business model.
If the domain name is blocked, just use the ip address.
This is a start. The whole damn bill needs to be trashed along with any members of congress and the admin that supported this crappy bill.
9. Big Brother Internet: The coming year will be the beginning of the end of Internet Freedom: a battle between the governments and the people. We predict in 2012 governments will propose legislation requiring Internet users to present the equivalent of a driver’s license and/or bill of health to navigate cyberspace. For the general population it will represent yet another curtailing of freedom and level of governmental control.
I agree this is only a start.
SOPA is about giving power to those who rent our Congress and it is most often on our dime. We need a Congress that gives power and freedom to all the people and SOPA gave the right to constrain our freedoms to others.
The ultimate intent is to chip away at a free internet where we as individuals can each spread our beliefs, as we see fit, and instead the intent is to give only those big players that own the big media that right.
Congress needs to stay away from our rights but they won’t, because these corrupt thieves are owned by high roller lobbyists who will continue in an attempt to steal more of our rights. It’s not just a cliche and it really means they will try and take our rights.
> If the domain name is blocked, just use the ip address.
Fine for ssh or FTP, but useless for http because sites use domain names in links and references.
>>If the domain name is blocked, just use the ip address.
Why? Is there something wrong with the hosts file?
Parts are starting to fall off it. Keep firing! Don’t let up until you see it going down in flames!
1) No removal of felony charges for a civil issue.
2) No restraint of copyright - it still goes on for 70 years past the original creator’s death, longer if it is owned by a company.
3) No competition of the constitutional exchange - the people protect the property in exchange for open access to the property after a limited time. 3.5 generations IS NOT a limited time.
4) STILL no fair use exemption within the law. Commit a felony if you post your daughter’s first dance from her wedding if you do not have performance rights to the music in the background. DO YOU want to risk losing your rights to vote, bear arms, etc under the assumption that no court will ever permit a felony conviction for fair use?
SOPA, OPEN, etc are lined up attacks to steal your rights and the people’s property. It continues to codify the unconstitutional extensions of copyrights and patents far beyond any useful return to the people. It continues to codify criminal penalties without actual loss to the ‘victim’, and continues the unconstitutional requirements that a person PROVE that they are innocent.
No sale.
...a controversial antipiracy bill being debated in Congress will no longer include a provision that would require ISPs to block access to overseas Web sites accused of piracy.That'll help keep jobs in the US of A! Wait, what?
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