Sites like YouTube, which publishes millions of user-uploaded videos each week, are worried that they would be forced to more closely police that content to avoid running afoul of the new rules. The bill requires every payment or advertising network operator to set up a process through which outside parties can notify the company that one of its customers is an "Internet site is dedicated to theft of U.
Filing false notifications is a crime, but the process would put the burden of proof -- and the legal cost of fighting a false allegation -- on the accused. As the anti-SOPA trade group NetCoalition put it in their analysis of the bill: "The legislation systematically favors a copyright owner's intellectual property rights and strips the owners of accused websites of their rights. Who supports SOPA, and who's against it? In general, media companies have united in favor of them, while tech's big names are throwing their might into opposing them.
The bill's supporters dismiss accusations of censorship, saying that the legislation is meant to revamp a broken system that doesn't adequately prevent criminal behavior.
But SOPA's critics say the bill's backers don't understand the Internet's architecture, and therefore don't appreciate the implications of the legislation they're considering.
In November, tech behemoths including Google GOOG , Fortune and Facebook lodged a formal complaint letter to lawmakers, saying: "We support the bills' stated goals. Unfortunately, the bills as drafted would expose law-abiding U. Internet and technology companies to new uncertain liabilities [and] mandates that would require monitoring of web sites. Where does the bill stand now?
SOPA was once expected to sail quickly through committee approval in the House. But tech companies, who largely oppose the bills, mobilized their users to speak out.
Google GOOG , Fortune drew more than 7 million signatures for a petition that it linked on its highly trafficked homepage. The House Judiciary Committee considering whether to send the Stop Online Piracy Act to the House floor abruptly adjourned Friday with no new vote date set -- a surprise given that the bill looked certain to pass out of committee. The committee's chairman and chief sponsor of the legislation, Rep.
Lamar Smith R-Texas , agreed to further explore a controversial provision that lets the Attorney General order changes to core internet infrastructure in order to stop copyright infringement.
Smith said the hearing would resume at the "earliest practical day that Congress is in session. Darrell Issa R-California tweeted that the committee would resume action Wednesday. The abrupt halt to Friday's proceeding, which followed a marathon-long, hour hearing Thursday, was based on a motion from Rep. Jason Chaffetz R-Utah. When we last checked in with SOPA, the bill aimed at curtailing online piracy, it was catching flak from op-ed writers and newspaper editorial boards alike.
The Guardian today reported that Representative Lamar Smith , the Texas Republican who authored the bill, had "conceded to calls for further investigation of claims that the legislation will damage the infrastructure of the internet. A quick recap: SOPA would allow private companies especially movie and record companies, whose livelihoods depend on protecting intellectual property to create a blacklist of websites that they deem to be infringing on copyrights. Six amendments came up on Thursday that would have softened those provisions, but the Judiciary Committee voted each of them down.
Critics of the bill, including Internet security experts and other members of the technology community, say that the changes to DNS technology proposed under SOPA would make the Web less secure. Too harsh, or necessary to protect the legitimate interests of copyright holders? For more tech news, follow us on Twitter venturenaut. Already a subscriber? Monitor journalism changes lives because we open that too-small box that most people think they live in. It has received celebrity endorsements from artists such as Alicia Keys and Kanye West, making it one of the internet's most high profile file-sharing platforms.
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