Wrightfan wrote:Guess I'm the only one who thinks this is the biggest overreaction ever.
The anti-sopa side is engaging in fear mongering...they're just calling it something different.
Seriously?! SOPA would grant the Justice Department the power to take offline any website that either has or links to copyrighted material, OR even contains links to OTHER sites which may have copyrighted material, all at the behest of the companies that are claiming copyright on the content. Also, and this is perhaps most important, the companies submitting the requests to the Justice Department to shut down these websites would not even have to prove that the material in question was being used illegally. So, in effect, the site could be using or linking to copyrighted material in complete compliance with Fair Use guidelines, and STILL be shut down!
Let me put it another way: You know the TLK emoticons on the right-hand side of the Post A Reply page? Well, under SOPA, Disney would have the ability to require the Justice Department to shut down MLK for unapproved use of those images from the TLK films as emoticons, even though their use in that context falls safely within Fair Use parameters. Doesn't that strike you as frightening?
It should only last about 12 hours, and the link is right here if Moka is interested: 
