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Originally Posted by Hellmark
I mean, what made people so upset about the DMCA is the ability for anyone to send takedown notices, and the hosts had to comply or be taken to court, and how ripe for abuse it could be. It has been abused many times, but with the limited scope, it wasn't able to have a big impact.
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DMCA also has provisions which protect the operators of sites (such as MR) that allow user generated content. Under SOPA it sounds like they wouldn't have such protection and if true, I'd expect many legal and useful sites we all use today would have ever been created had SOPA been in place at the time.