The House is getting ready to discuss a new anti-online piracy bill that will allow independent parties to cut off websites accused of posting copyrighted material and the bill, called the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), is designed to skirt around the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to the SOPA will go before the House Judiciary Committee on November 16. From what we've read, it has a decent chance of passing.
Right now, under the DMCA, a copyright holder can request a website remove material he or she owns to the website refuses, the matter can go to court in the SOPA gets around this by allowing the third party to go directly to advertisers, credit card companies and ISPs to effectively shut down a website's lifeline when it's suspected of posting copyrighted material to there's no need to go to court either.
For example, under SOPA, a copyright holder can go directly to Google and ask them to block all Google ads from a website that is suspected of carrying copyrighted works to a commercial site, credit card companies and services like PayPal have the right to block all payments it's a classic "shoot 1st, ask questions later" move and has the potential to be harmful to sites and services such as Dropbox that depend on user uploaded content.
Right now, under the DMCA, a copyright holder can request a website remove material he or she owns to the website refuses, the matter can go to court in the SOPA gets around this by allowing the third party to go directly to advertisers, credit card companies and ISPs to effectively shut down a website's lifeline when it's suspected of posting copyrighted material to there's no need to go to court either.
For example, under SOPA, a copyright holder can go directly to Google and ask them to block all Google ads from a website that is suspected of carrying copyrighted works to a commercial site, credit card companies and services like PayPal have the right to block all payments it's a classic "shoot 1st, ask questions later" move and has the potential to be harmful to sites and services such as Dropbox that depend on user uploaded content.
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