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Originally Posted by JoeD
We're talking about piracy sites though, ISP's require a court order before they'll block access. Which means there's a degree of thought that's gone into determining whether the site is really infringing the countries copyright laws or not.
I really believe courts should be the ones who make the choice over whether a site is blocked for infringing copyright. There's an argument for once a block has occurred to allow ISPs a little wiggle room or expedited procedures to keep the blocks up to date as the site will likely re-open on a new domain etc
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As things currently stand, yes, they require court order. Under SOPA/PIPA, that would not be the case.
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Originally Posted by JoeD
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.
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Yeah, DMCA does have protection for hosts of sites that use user generated content. SOPA/PIPA does not. So, you could be kosher under DMCA, but still have your site taken down with SOPA/PIPA. It can be so far as having a link to another page with the content. So, you have a search engine, and your results contain a listing a page, where some user of the site uploaded something that infringes on copyright. With SOPA/PIPA, that site gets taken down, and your search engine can be taken down as well.