2. What is SOPA?
SOPA: Stop Online Piracy Act
The Internet Blacklist Bill:
- US Government allowed to block
the American’s access to websites.
- US Government allowed to block
American websites.
Bill introduce by U.S. Representative
Lamar S. Smith
3. How Do They Block?
SOPA uses DNS Blocking(a website
censorship method).
DNS is also used by China, Iran, and
Syria.
What is DNS?
DNS:Domain Name System
A standard protocol for how computers
exchange data on the Internet or private
networks.
4. When does a site get
blocked?
Numbers of infringing links in the website.
Copyright (posting something that is not
yours.
“the users posted it!”– Website operator
“You didn’t do enough to stop it”– SOPA
Sites at greatest risk of getting blocked:
Vimeo
Facebook
Myspace
AOL
Twitter
5. Example SOPA Cases
http://www.megaupload.com
File-sharing site
Hong Kong-based site
Kim Schmitz, aka Kim Dotcom – Founder
Caught for:
Copyright Infringement ($ 500 million)
Money Laundering (pays users to upload infringing content,
“uploader reward” program)
Thousands of third-party linking site
6. Arrest to Megaupload
KimSchmitz, Hong Kong, aka Kim Dotcom(37) –
Founder
Finn Batato (38), Germany –Chief Marketing Officer
Julius Bencko (35), Slovakia –Graphic Designer
Sven Echternach (39), Germany – Head of Business
Development
Mathias Ortmann (40), Germany – Chief Technical
Officer, Co-Founder, and Director
Andrus Nomm (32), Estonia – Software Programmer
Bram van derKolk (29), Dutch - Programmer
7. White House Position
On January 14, 2012, Obama
administration responded to the bill.
The white house are AGAINST the bill.
More than 100,000 people petitioned the
White House in protest.
8. Protest Action
November 16, 2011; Tumblr, Mozilla,
Techdirt. Displayed black banners over
website logos with ―STOP CENSORSHIP‖
January 18, 2012; Wikipedia blackout for
24 hour.
January 19, 2012; Linked Digital Attack
Protest by Anonymous. 5,635 people
participating.
9. Could this be the law?
Yes it can, the bill supporters had been
increasing.
10. The Affects of SOPA on the
Society
Communication through the Internet could be
limited to what you send.
Education can have less sources to use.
Blogs going to be boring.
78% of America are using the Internet, if the
internet get’s block, they become the next
China.
11. Citation
"Feds Shutter Megaupload, Arrest Executives |
Threat Level | Wired.com." Wired.com. 19 Jan.
2012. Web. 05 Feb. 2012.
<http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/01/me
gaupload-indicted-shuttered/>.
"SOPA Infographic." Stop American Censorship —
a Campaign from Fight for the Future. Web. 05
Feb. 2012.
<http://www.americancensorship.org/infographi
c.html>.
"Stop Online Piracy Act." Wikipedia, the Free
Encyclopedia. Web. 05 Feb. 2012.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy
_Act>.
