The issue is whether corporations & the Attorney General should have the power to expedite these measures. They already have the tools to combat p2p and copyright infringments, so why do they need this?
You should watch the video
PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet on Vimeo Quote:
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I'm pretty sure you will not be able to access the sites by ip#. The ISP will block the ip address.
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Only if the ISP is complicit and It's not the ISP's their messing with, it's the DNS registrars and search engines.
RE: you comment on wikileaks
Taken from wikipedia:
Civil liberties issues
Floyd Abrams said “The Protect IP Act neither compels nor prohibits free speech or communication… the bill sets a high bar in defining when a website or domain is eligible for potential actions by the Attorney General…”.
[43] The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation likewise supports the PROTECT IP Act and has said that concerns about the domain name remedy in the legislation are undercut by the already ongoing use of that approach to counter spam and malware.
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The bill has been criticized by Abigail Phillips of Electronic Frontier Foundation for not being specific about what constitutes an infringing web site.
For example, if WikiLeaks were accused of distributing copyrighted content, U.S. search engines could be served a court order to block search results pointing to Wikileaks. Requiring search engines to remove links to an entire website altogether due to an infringing page would raise free speech concerns regarding lawful content hosted elsewhere on the site.[25] Google chairman
Eric Schmidt has stated that the measures called for in the PROTECT IP Act are overly simple solutions to a complex problem, and that the precedent set by pruning DNS entries is bad from the viewpoint of
free speech and would be a step toward less permissive Internet environments, such as China's. As chairman of the company that owns the world's largest search engine, Schmidt has declared "if there is a law that requires DNSs to do X and it's passed by both Houses of Congress and signed by the President of the United States and we disagree with it then we would still fight it."
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I agree with the quote from Fred Wilson:
"If we need to amend the DMCA, let's do it with a negotiation between the interested parties,
not with a bill written by the content industry's lobbyists and jammed through Congress on a fast track," urged venture capitalist and
Business Insider columnist
Fred Wilson in an October 29th editorial on the changes that the current House and Senate versions of the proposed legislation would make to the safe harbor provisions of the
DMCA. "Companies like Apple, Google, Facebook, and startups like Dropbox, Kickstarter, and Twilio are the leading exporters and job creators of this time. They are the golden goose of the economy and we cannot kill the golden goose to protect industries in decline,"