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Peer-to-peer filesharing hasn't depended on search engines, blogs, or domain names since... well, it's been a long long time
This is not true, I have found plenty of torrents by search engines. You can't pigeon hole it. Some people will hear through word of mouth, search engine, blogs any way in which people find stuff on the internet.
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They WILL allow the paranoid to the point of idiotic Entertainment Industry to take down pretty much every website that allows user content or user feedback in any form.
How when a court system has to ok any action? Why do you keep reciting this empty propaganda? The bill does not give absolute power to anyone and the entertainment industry can not do anything by themselves. I mean it's right there in the bill. We don't need the bomb throwing can we stick to facts?
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Today, a website like Facebook or NYCAviation makes users agree to a User Agreement that states the user is responsible for the content of everything they post. If someone posts something they shouldn't, the party who is being harmed can ask NYCAviation to take the material down, they will do so, and that is the end of the story. Under SOPA, if I post a link to something illegal in this forum post, then within just a few hours the entire NYCAviation domain could be turned off and removed from all search engines. Nobody would be able to access this website, nor would it show up as a result in a Google search, until the courts get around to hearing NYCAviation's defense. This could be weeks, months, years, during which time this website might as well never have existed. Users will move elsewhere, search engine rank will be reset to zero, and even if eventually you convince the courts that your website is "clean", your entire business will be starting from scratch when they turn your domain back on.
Again this is just total propaganda and fearmongering. I am pretty sure a judge is not going to ok any DOJ action or ok the taking down of a site in hours unless all the other less evasive courses of actions have been exhausted. That is what the court system is for. To prevent absolute power. Using your NYCav example I am sure if illegal material is posted Phil would be contacted and made aware of the situation with instructions and warnings that the material has to be removed and the person and or site posting the stuff addressed. To try to make us believe that the government has the ability to just start taking down sites at the first site of wrongdoing is total BS. This is a fake scenario being invented by the people that fear their free ride in viewing movies and listening to music is coming to an end.
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There are a few countries who censor what their citizens can see, but every year they let in a little more, and every year those people are a little closer to enjoying the freedoms we take for granted.
So now you are brining North Korea into this? No. I won't even entertain this. You are way over the line. This isn't stopping the free flow of information. It's about stopping the free flow of STOLEN media.
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If SOPA passes, the only way for a website owner to be sure their site won't be taken down will be to require an approval process for every piece of user content posted to their site. Can you imagine the cost? How many staff would you need to do that here at NYCAviation? How many hours would it take a post to be approved? Could thoughtful and interesting conversations like this even happen, or would everyone have moved on to the next big story before any of the comments are even visible yet? Can you imagine an Internet with no comments, no blogs, no links, all out of fear of the U.S. Government and our entertainment industry?
Again just more fearmongering, if the law passes Phil won't have to constantly monitor anything. If something gets by he will get a heads up and then he could monitor the IP address of serial abuser and block them. Ebay does it and it didn't put them out of business.
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We have a country in economic crisis, we have a war ongoing in Afghanistan, we have new unknown regimes sprouting around the globe as dictators fall (thanks Internet!), we have tax laws that need to be rewritten, we have TSA groping grandmothers, we have countless serious national issues... and yet Congress, BOTH HOUSES, are screwing around with legislation like SOPA?!?! Are you fracking kidding me? Teens downloading movies instead of going to the theater or buying the DVD which is supposedly hurting sales (but nobody can point to any statistics that PROVE that of course).... That's our big issue? That's what our Representatives are going to vote on? C'mon, let's get real. A lot of those problems Congress can't do anything about (or shouldn't) but those it can do something about aren't going to go away if we ignore them. Let's throw away this useless, scary legislation and move on to something IMPORTANT.
It's this diversionary kind of smoke and mirrors that always erupts when people lose the golden goose. You are telling me that the illegal sharing of movies and music has not caused harm to retail sales? Your really believe that?