Author of SOPA is a copyright violator

[PeaceNikki]

12. So, you don't get it and are accusing others of marching lockstep when they do?

weird.

Here's another good piece:

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2012/0118/Would-SOPA-and-PIPA-bills-break-Internet-Anti-piracy-measure-being-revised

The Internet, he explains, has a “phone book” – it's Domain Name System (or Service, called DNS) that automatically translates domain names into IP addresses. It's easy to remember Google.com – less easy to remember 74.125.225.18 – Google.com's Internet or IP address, where its website lives on the Internet.

What the legislation originally called for was giving the US attorney general the authority to order sites blocked – by rewriting the DNS. Technicians would have had to alter a straightforward system so it would in essence lie – telling an Internet user that an address such as Pirate Bay was not available when it really was. The result, Mr. Baker says, is that illegitimate workarounds – including using less reputable DNS systems in other countries – would pop up and put Internet users at great risk of unknowingly ending up on criminal scam websites.

In addition, critics said that the bill would put the US in the same category as Syria and China, whose authoritarian regimes impose a similar type of blocking – but for websites that contain information those governments don't like. Digital tools used by human rights activists and political dissidents around the world to evade government blacklists would also get hammered, according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an Internet rights advocacy group.