Its Called ####S-O-P-A-### now

[vij]

WTF - They keep changing names. E-PARASITE is now called SOPA.

I dont notice this before.. From what I can see Google now has a banner on home page saying "Stop Censorship" which leads to this page http://www.mozilla.org/sopa/

Sorry, I dont want this discussion to be cached with relevance - so have introduced # and - in the title.

[vij]

The House Judiciary Committee will conduct a hearing on the highly controversial piracy bill, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) this Thursday. Lamar Smith (R - TX), the head of the committee, has made significant changes (pdf) to the original SOPA bill (pdf). These changes include requiring a judge to order service providers to stop doing business with a web site if that site is accused by a copyright holder of being "dedicated" to copyright infringement activity. This is a big change; the original version would have allowed copyright holders to request service providers to blacklist a company, and only after the company had been taken offline would that company have the chance to argue in its own defense. Other changes include a clarification that .net, .org, and .com sites were exempt from the bill since the bill is designed to focus on foreign infringing sites.

Is that a typo?

Some of the language that has caused so much controversy is still included in the bill; Internet Service Providers would still be required to seize domain names through the DNS system and search providers would still be required to exclude the accused site from search results. Critics of the legislation have used these two contingencies to characterize the bill as the Great Firewall of America, since allowing the government to change dns entries and manipulate search results limits free access to information.

There we go again.






Source: http://technorati.com/politics/artic...#ixzz1gTiAbQbr

[kwave]

Just in from a Yahoo newsfeed:

"Supporters of SOPA highlight what they claim are billions of dollars lost every year to online intellectual property theft. They also say American consumers are in physical danger from the harmful effects of counterfeit drugs sold through so-called “rogue” websites."

Just in case you thought it didn't apply to this industry.

Are the mods still alive or have they been sequestered?

[Maxus Dominus]

"The House Judiciary Committee will conduct a hearing on the highly controversial piracy bill, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) this Thursday. Lamar Smith (R - TX), the head of the committee, has made significant changes (pdf) to the original SOPA bill (pdf). These changes include requiring a judge to order service providers to stop doing business with a web site if that site is accused by a copyright holder of being "dedicated" to copyright infringement activity. This is a big change; the original version would have allowed copyright holders to request service providers to blacklist a company, and only after the company had been taken offline would that company have the chance to argue in its own defense. Other changes include a clarification that .net, .org, and .com sites were exempt from the bill since the bill is designed to focus on foreign infringing sites."

Yessssss! I'm so pleased to hear that!


"Some of the language that has caused so much controversy is still included in the bill; Internet Service Providers would still be required to seize domain names through the DNS system and search providers would still be required to exclude the accused site from search results. Critics of the legislation have used these two contingencies to characterize the bill as the Great Firewall of America, since allowing the government to change dns entries and manipulate search results limits free access to information."

Dammit. Hopefully they'll come to their senses on those requirements.
HSN selling Soma again. SOPA getting more reasonable. Things are finally starting to look up
a little bit again.
Maxus

[vij]

Godaddy pledged support to SOPA and in about 2 days or so lost 37,000 domains - all transferred elsewhere. They quickly retracted the statement saying they now don't support it. Man that's funny

[Ray]

Keep in mind: GoDaddy, didnt say they are against it. They just "dont support" it anymore...
I dont think that was enough to bring all these big portfolios back, so they are blocking transfers now... Read more here: http://dannosblog.com/2011/12/26/is-...-sopa-boycott/
and here : http://news.yahoo.com/anti-sopa-acti...002215900.html

Godaddy pledged support to SOPA and in about 2 days or so lost 37,000 domains - all transferred elsewhere. They quickly retracted the statement saying they now don't support it. Man that's funny

[vij]

Keep in mind: GoDaddy, didnt say they are against it. They just "dont support" it anymore...
I dont think that was enough to bring all these big portfolios back, so they are blocking transfers now... Read more here: http://dannosblog.com/2011/12/26/is-...-sopa-boycott/
and here : http://news.yahoo.com/anti-sopa-acti...002215900.html

Yes. They'll say anything.

[qwer12]

problem is 37k domains is nothing for godaddy

[vij]

problem is 37k domains is nothing for godaddy

37k domains in less than a week is substantial - even for Godaddy - enough for them to adjust their statement. Also, the big players with 100s of domains would consider leaving. I am in a paid private forum and know few guys with >500 domains that pulled out of Godaddy. Thats just 1 teeny weeny forum in this small period.

[Ray]

problem is 37k domains is nothing for godaddy

The thing is, They dont wanna become Evil Daddy.com...
37K in itself, is nothing, but this things can move fast.
I moved my portfolio from them a long time ago, and I'm sure many big portfolios holders are now doing the same or considering it. This is not only about punishing Go Daddy, this is about the safety of ones portfolio.

[qwer12]

I moved a couple dozen domains out of godaddy myself yesterday, there were some pretty attractive discounts also.

Although the word on the street is this thing has a good chance of passing and we are all in very big trouble then.

[vij]

I moved a couple dozen domains out of godaddy myself yesterday, there were some pretty attractive discounts also.

Although the word on the street is this thing has a good chance of passing and we are all in very big trouble then.

What's to be seen is how long it takes for it to become the law. Does it take 4-6 months etc.
Again - if its passed - there will be some system hopefully rather than just shooting everything on sight.

[vij]

News coming in the last few hours -

"After consultation with industry groups across the country, I feel we should remove Domain Name System blocking from the Stop Online Piracy Act so that the [House Judiciary] Committee can further examine the issues surrounding this provision," Smith said in a statement. "We will continue to look for ways to ensure that foreign websites cannot sell and distribute illegal content to US consumers."

Shortly after this happened, congressman Darrell Issa said that SOPA would not see a vote until there was more "consensus" on its contents.

"Although SOPA, despite the removal of this provision, is still a fundamentally flawed bill, I have decided that postponing the scheduled hearing on DNS blocking with technical experts is the best course of action at this time," Issa said.

"I am confident that flawed legislation will not be taken up by this House. Majority leader [Eric] Cantor has assured me that we will continue to work to address outstanding concerns and work to build consensus prior to any anti-piracy legislation coming before the House for a vote," Issa added.

The Obama administration's statement on Friday was in response to petitions about SOPA, the Senate's PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) and the Online Protection and Digital Enforcement Act (OPEN). The White House said it backed the creation of new copyright-protection laws, but would not support legislation that "reduces freedom of expression, increases cybersecurity risk, or undermines the dynamic, innovative global internet".

http://www.zdnet.co.uk/blogs/communi...blow-10025214/

[Ray]

definitely great news to domainers

News coming in the last few hours -

http://www.zdnet.co.uk/blogs/communi...blow-10025214/