SOPA/PIPA presentation for BUS10020707A

1. HOLLYWOOD VS. THE INTERNET
WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON?
KEITH MCINTIRE
PROF. DR. STEVEN ENGLEHART
BUS 1002
1/21/12

2. WHAT IS PIPA ?
Force U.S. internet providers to block access to websites
deemed as enablers of copyright infringement
• Seek legal action by suing search engines, blog
sites, directories, or any site in general to have the black
listed sites removed from their website
• Will be able to force advertising services on infringing
websites, and those supporting of them, to remove them from
their advertising accounts
• Companies will also have the power to sue any new websites
that get started after this bill is passed, if they believe that
they are not doing a good job of preventing infringement on
your website

3. WHAT IS SOPA ?
SOPA, if passed, will work in conjunction with PIPA. SOPA is nothing
more so than the U.S. government and private corporations black list.
• The U.S. Attorney General can now seek a court order that would force
search engines, advertisers, DNS providers, servers, and payment
processors from having any contact with allegedly infringing websites
• It will allow private corporations to create their own personal hit lists
composed of websites they feel are breaking their copyright
policies, ironically this doesn’t have any odd feelings of a legal mafia at
all. These companies will be able to directly contact a website’s payment
processors a notice to cut all off payment involvement with the targeted
website. This payment processors and website of question will then have
five days to act before it is simply taken down.
• Payment processors will have the power to cut off any website they work
with, as long as they can provide a strong reason of why they believe
this site is violating copyrights

4. WHAT IS SOPA ?
The Bills allow the U.S. attorney general to seek a court order
against a targeted offshore website that would, in turn, be
served on Internet providers in an effort to make the target
virtually disappear.
• More Specifically, Section 102 of SOPA says that, after being
served with a removal order:
(i) IN GENERAL - A service provider shall take technically feasible
and reasonable measures designed to prevent access by its
subscribers located within the United States to the foreign
infringing site (or portion thereof) that is subject to the order…Such
actions shall be taken as expeditiously as possible, but in any case
within five days after being served with a copy of the order, or
within such time as the court may order.

5. In short what the bills do is force American social networks, blogs, and
search engines to censor the Internet. If they do not follow the bills, they
in turn will be shut down.

6. PROBLEMS WITH THE
BILLS
Your site can be shut down whether or not you’ve done
anything wrong
SOPA doesn’t actually affect real pirates.
• When a site is blocked by domain name the IP address is still
active. Real pirates have no problem using IP addresses
Ordinary users can go to jail for five years for posting
copyrighted material.
• So you know that cute You Tube video of your child dancing
to a song? Well that can get you five years in jail.

7. WHO COULD BE
AFFECTED ?
If you create or consume
content on the
Internet, under SOPA the
government would have the
power to pull the plug on
your website. If you’re a
casual consumer, your
favorite websites could be
penalized and shut down if
they seem to be illegally
supporting copyrighted
material.

8. WHO COULD BE
AFFECTED ?
Websites that could
potentially be affected
• Facebook
• Wikipedia
• Yahoo
• Google
• You Tube
• Craigslist
• Mozilla
• Reddit
• BoingBoing

9. WHERE DOES
CONGRESS STAND ?
• Total: 61 supporters, 189
opponents
• Senate: 37 supporters, 22
opponents
• House: 26
supporters, 100
opponents
• Democrats (across the
Senate and House): 40
supporters, 55
opponents
• Republicans (across the
Senate and House): 22
supporters, 67
opponents

10. WHO STANDS BEHIND
IT ?
• Lamar Smith is the main
force behind SOPA
• Patrick Leahy is the main
force behind PIPA
• The Recording Industry
association of America
• The Motion Picture
Association of America

11. WHO STANDS
AGAINST IT ?
• Al Gore
• Wikipedia
• Facebook
• Microsoft
• You Tube
• Twitter
• Business Software Alliance
• Reddit
• Harvard Prof. Laurence Tribe
• Ron Paul
• Mozilla
• Ebay
• Google
• Human Rights Watch
• Yahoo
• Tumbler
• Y Combinator
• 4.5 Million People signed Google’s anti-
censorship petition

12. WHAT CAN YOU DO ?
• Write an email to
congress
• Not in the US?
Petition the State
Department
• Lobby Congress
• “Censor” your
website in protest
• EDUCATE
YOURSELF

13. REFERENCES
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-
bin/query/F?c112:1:./temp/~c112zlavj9:e11714: Retrieved
January 21st, 2012
http://www.forbes.com/sites/derekbroes/2012/01/20/why-should-
you-fear-sopa-and-pipa/ Retrieved January 21st, 2012
http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/19/sopa-opponents-supporters/
Retrieved January 21st, 2012
http://www.capmac.org/iphonesig/?p=7277 Retrieved January
21st, 2012
http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2012/01/19/4-5-million-
people-signed-googles-anti-sopa-petition/ Retrieved January
21st, 2012
http://americancensorship.org/ Retrieved January 21st, 2012