Internet will be done if this is released i have nothing against America in general but they always go too far they won't stop a with piracy for sure.
This will get crazy i tell you they will start closing every site that have piracy meaning bye bye manga, anime and lot of other things and they will probably also close any site who promote thoses thing meaning bye bye Baka-Update and i lot of other...
Also legitimate site will start closing for no reason because america will think they do piracy without any proof.
And last all thoses saying SOPA should be release because they say piracy make them lose money but i think sure piracy don't help but the reason the products don't sell is because of the quality of the products they sell simply suck...
You have games on consoles who break record in selling i mean damn you have CoD who have sold 9.3M in 1 days so it's really still possible to sell a lot nowaday even with piracy you just have to released things the population want stop blaming piracy because the product you make suck and no1 want to buy them...

Hmm this act if pass will degrade internet to o.O.o

http://www.gamepolitics.com/2011/12/19/anti-sopa-petitio n-reaches-20k-signatures-needs-5k-more

https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions/%21/petition/veto -sopa-bill-and-any-other-future-bills-threaten-diminish-free-flo w-information/g3W1BscR?utm_source=wh.gov&utm _medium=shorturl&utm_campaign=shorturl

I hope everyone does their part to help fight this, even some of the people that help create the internet in the first place are speaking out about this Act.

So when this passes we're gonna lose Baka Updates?.

if this is passed, it will be the end of anime, manga & other things. this thing must to stop since it will not be really good for us.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w6GtwOvnWM
Kinda explains well how we will get screwed...btw how come the media storm about this hasnt started yet? O.o

"Right now Congress is considering two bills—the Protect IP Act, and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)"
Well, this is suck. I mean, the fate of internet's future is depending on America's congress. I'm afraid it's depending on the wrong heads. To top it off, this wouldn't only affect the country of the one responsible, but getting the whole world involved. Man, they're just not admirable busybodies.

http://fightforthefuture.org/pipa/

This video pretty much explains what SOPA is, how it would work if it is passed, what the ramifications are, and how it pretty much will screw up the internet for the whole world not just those in america.

This foretells misfortunes to come . . .

Someone should explain how both Americans and non-Americans can fight this.

I've already signed against the act. It sucks because it wont matter how many names there are, as long as the big entertainment conglomerates want it done, they'll push the pen themselves. I truly am beginning to believe the only way to stop our country from becoming nothing is to kill everyone in Congress and start over. WAAAYYYY too much corruption. And that's just what I hear from my sister (she's an intern at some congressional building). I guess all we can do is cross our fingers ;_;

Euhm, I dont really understand something like this,
It will only impact on people in U.S rite?

This whole thing is bogus and I'm happy to see that the articl about SOPA is up here. It means that more people are informed about this shitstorm that keeps brewing.

Oh, you didn't know? Well, before SOPA there were Internet Blacklist, Protect IP Act and one or two more similar bills.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xjisu18X6s7lPtAs IQg5Ol3KJjymPT2az1kasQVwGiw/mobilebasic?pli=1 - list of companies supporting this bill.

I also suggest for you guys to read the wiki article on SOPA so you could have a better understanding of what happens if it passes.

People don't need to worry, it can easily be evaded with a vpn or proxy.
And the only sites that could get problems are bigger sites, those online-readers lose a lot of traffic and off course their adds disappear , they will be destroyed. The scanlation groups wouldn't have that much trouble, they are rather small (difficult to find) and they've still got irc.
The anime fansub groups would have trouble on the other hand, everything that is streamed will be difficult to distribute certainly torrent sites would get it difficult (I guess they made the law for torrent sites).
The positive point is that the license holders would have more difficulties to find all those sites.
It becomes like in Malaysia, but then on a larger scale.

I'm pretty sure at least half our country think its starting to suck. Might as well split the country down the middle. West U.S. for the future, and East U.S. for those who want to stick with the present. All I know is they're f#cking with my future. If SOPA passes, SOPA is only the beginning.

Where are the servers of Manga Updates?

http://www.gamepolitics.com/2011/12/21/entertainment- industry-pays-over-19-million-campaign-cash-sopa-support ers

Workarounds:
http://www.gamepolitics.com/2011/12/21/why-sopa-futile -effort-lawmakers-special-interest-groups

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhwuXNv8fJM
Go watch this, I kid you not that this would bring light to a questions

the internet is being destroyed by people who hardly use it :/

I have always wondered what it would be like to threaten a government that tries something like this, that if the laws get passed, that there will be so many legitimate copyright infringement complaints logged at every governmental site there is, ( these can be for almost an image/photo that someone can lay claim to being the owner of, quote's that a person did not want made public, anything that could look like plagiarism or deformation, etc...). This could also extend into charity and religious organizations.

A small glimmer, but still a long ways to go....
http://www.osnews.com/story/25454/Facing_Boycott_G oDaddy_Rescinds_SOPA_Support

I really hope this bill doesn't pass. If it did it would seriously suck. Yeah, there are ways around it, but it would definitely ruin the openness of the internet. Plus by what Adam says about it ANYONE can sue you for copyright infringement, which is ridiculous, if the copyrightholder doesn't care, why on earth should someone else be able to sue? O.o This would probably shut down sites like Youtube, Facebook and such in no time.

And yeah, I'm pretty sure other countries would follow if America introduced something like this, here in Europe some countries are like America groupies. The Netherlands as well, if America does something they think they should at least give doing the same very serious consideration (that's how we got mixed up in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq).

Plus the only thing being able to see copyrighted stuff on the internet has done in my case is make me buy more copyrighted stuff too. The internet is the only reason I got into manga in the first place and a lot of the music I like is stuff I've come across on the internet as well. Face it, you copyright jerks, if I don't want to buy it after hearing/reading it, it JUST AIN'T GOOD ENOUGH.

Anyway, I guess I'd better start practicing my IRC skills X(

Let's just use IPs or P2P(DHP) DNS resolving.