Sopa & pipa

**Altis6453** · January 20th, 2012 09:27 AM

It's like a combination of the powers and authorities granted to the US Government and the US Attorney General in the Patriot Act (apprehend or arrest first, ask questions later) and the Sherman Act (anti-trust law). Scary, most especially since this gives the US the authority to enforce the SOPA outside of its borders.

**xninjax** · January 20th, 2012 09:52 AM

It is poorly written. They have not carefully understood the repercussions of what they have placed in there

It will not solve the piracy either , which is one of their objectives.

**renzo_d10** · January 21st, 2012 11:45 AM

SOPA is dead!

:party:

**uls** · January 21st, 2012 11:53 AM

even without SOPA, they shut down **********

**111prez** · January 21st, 2012 12:10 PM

even without SOPA or PIPA, the US has already done extraterritorial intellectual property enforcement (ref: US and Elcom v Sklyarov [2001])

this US attempt comes at the heels of the french HADOPI

in essence, US wants the ISP and/or web host sites and/or the site itself (e.x. tsikot.com) to be their police or otherwise be held liable in the same degree as the infringer.

this sends a chilling message to sites for sharing, social networking or foruming

that is the real objectionable matter

**uls** · January 21st, 2012 12:18 PM

shut down youtube

it's full of pirated content

**Ry_Tower** · January 21st, 2012 06:30 PM

^ oo nga, papano yun! ?

**ChunkyLover** · January 21st, 2012 07:51 PM

In greek "Sopa" means shutup... and "pipa" means bl** jo*
so together they say "shut up and bl** jo*" hahahahaha

**renzo_d10** · January 21st, 2012 08:54 PM

Originally Posted by uls

even without SOPA, they shut down **********

at hinuli pa nila yung mayari ng **********

**niky** · January 22nd, 2012 03:55 PM

Part of the ********** thing is also money laundering.

Actually, I've always thought it was a mistake to close down **********. Why they simply don't go straight after *******s... arrest seeders or close down ******* services.

Instead, they close down a file-share website.

A file-share website that encourages high traffic users to buy premium.

So... instead of closing it down... they could keep it open, peruse the credit card payments of high traffic users, which would give them the names and home addresses of the biggest pirated content sharers.

Noooo... let's just close it down so all those big-time file-sharers will go further underground...