Article On Sopa and its "unconstatutional-ness"

[D3AD_S1L3NT]

Harvard Law School professor Laurence Tribe is one of the top constitutional experts in the country, and wrote one of the main treatises on the subject. Tribe wrote a letter to Congress last week stating that SOPA (the Stop Online Piracy Act) is unconstitutional.

As the Hill notes:

Laurence Tribe, a constitutional law expert at Harvard Law School, argues [SOPA] violates the First Amendment in a memo sent to members of Congress on Thursday.

The bill would empower the Justice Department and copyright holders to demand that search engines, Internet providers and payment processors cut ties with websites “dedicated” to copyright infringement.

Tribe argues the bill amounts to illegal “prior restraint” because it would suppress speech without a judicial hearing.

Additionally, the law’s definition of a rogue website is unconstitutionally vague, Tribe writes.

“Conceivably, an entire website containing tens of thousands of pages could be targeted if only a single page were accused of infringement,” Tribe writes. “Such an approach would create severe practical problems for sites with substantial user-generated content, such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, and for blogs that allow users to post videos, photos, and other materials.”

Google CEO Eric Schmidt said that the bill would criminalize the Internet:

An online piracy bill in the House would “criminalize linking and the fundamental structure of the Internet itself,” according to Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt.

Schmidt said the controversial [bill] would punish Web firms, including search engines, that link to foreign websites dedicated to online piracy. He said implementing the bill as written would effectively break the Internet.

“By criminalizing links, what these bills do is they force you to take content off the Internet,” Schmidt said, calling it a form of censorship.

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He compared the proposal to the Web censorship practiced by repressive foreign governments like China and doubled down on that comparison when speaking with reporters after his remarks at the Economic Club of Washington.

Indeed, China is exactly what the bill is modeled on:

If you’re wondering why lawyers and Hollywood folks would get behind legislation to censor the Internet, you only need to listen to former Senator Chris Dodd [the same guy who killed any chance of financial reform - see this, this, this and this], now the head of the MPAA, who last week explained to Variety that the lobby is only asking for the same kind of power to censor the Internet as the government has in the People’s Republic of China:

“When the Chinese told Google that they had to block sites or they couldn’t do [business] in their country, they managed to figure out how to block sites.”

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Even in China they are calling it the “Great Firewall of America.” At least the Chinese are enjoying the irony of the U.S. government moving toward a legal regime that would give it carte blanche to seize and take down websites on the basis of “infringement.” Tech Dirt, the site that reported on the above domain seizure, quotes one Chinese blogger on Sina Weibo subversively commenting on the progress of SOPA and PIPA [the Protect IP Act, which is the Senate version of SOPA] in Congress:

It looks like that we can finally export our technology and value to the Americans. We’re strong, advanced, and absolutely right!

Postscript: Given that Joe Lieberman said that America needs an internet kill switch like China, that the U.S. economy has turned socialist (at least for friends of those with control of the money spigot), and that the U.S. government used communist Chinese torture techniques specifically designed to produce false confessions in order to sell the Iraq war, I guess that the bill’s Chinese-style censorship is not entirely surprising.

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 Tomorrow, Google’s US homepage will include a link declaring its opposition to the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act. The news was reported on CNET and confirmed by Google in a statement emailed to TechCrunch:

Like many businesses, entrepreneurs and web users, we oppose these bills because there are smart, targeted ways to shut down foreign rogue websites without asking American companies to censor the Internet. So tomorrow we will be joining many other tech companies to highlight this issue on our US home page.

SOPA and PIPA have been criticized as potentially inflicting enormous harm on existing Web companies and services in the name of fighting piracy, and Google has already been pretty vocal in its opposition to the bills. But a homepage link could highlight the issue for a much broader audience, particularly those who aren’t following tech or policy news.

Google says the link won’t replace the logo on its front page. This won’t be quite as dramatic as the complete blackouts planned tomorrow by Wikipedia,Reddit, and others. For Google, though, including a front-page link is a pretty big step.

There’s been some public hand-wringing about how far tech companies should go to take a stand against SOPA and PIPA —CloudFlare offers one solution, allowing sites to black out specific content in protest, without entirely “going dark.” When asked if Twitter would follow Wikipedia’s lead, CEO Dick Costolo tweeted that it would be “silly” close a “global business in reaction to single-issue national politics”, later adding that Twitter might show its opposition in other ways: “Watch this space.” a

[Cowgirl*^_^*]

SOPA Emergency IP list:         

So if these ass-fucks in DC decide to ruin the internet, here’s how to access your favorite sites in the event of a DNS takedown

        tumblr.com 174.121.194.34
        wikipedia.org 208.80.152.201

        # News
        bbc.co.uk 212.58.241.131
        aljazeera.com 198.78.201.252

        # Social media
        reddit.com 72.247.244.88
        imgur.com 173.231.140.219
        google.com 74.125.157.99
        youtube.com 74.125.65.91
        yahoo.com 98.137.149.56
        hotmail.com 65.55.72.135
        bing.com 65.55.175.254
        digg.com 64.191.203.30
        theonion.com 97.107.137.164
        hush.com 65.39.178.43
        gamespot.com 216.239.113.172
        ign.com 69.10.25.46
        cracked.com 98.124.248.77
        sidereel.com 144.198.29.112
        github.com 207.97.227.239

        # Torrent sites
        thepiratebay.org 194.71.107.15
        mininova.com 80.94.76.5
        btjunkie.com 93.158.65.211
        demonoid.com 62.149.24.66
        demonoid.me 62.149.24.67

        # Social networking
        facebook.com 69.171.224.11
        twitter.com 199.59.149.230
        tumblr.com 174.121.194.34
        livejournal.com  209.200.154.225
        dreamwidth.org  69.174.244.50

        # Live Streaming Content
        stickam.com 67.201.54.151
        blogtv.com 84.22.170.149
        justin.tv 199.9.249.21
        chatroulette.com 184.173.141.231
        omegle.com 97.107.132.144
        own3d.tv 208.94.146.80
        megavideo.com 174.140.154.32

        # Television
        gorillavid.com 178.17.165.74
        videoweed.com 91.220.176.248
        novamov.com 91.220.176.248
        tvlinks.com 208.223.219.206
        1channel.com 208.87.33.151

        # Shopping
        amazon.com 72.21.211.176
        newegg.com 216.52.208.187
        frys.com 209.31.22.39

        # File Sharing
        mediafire.com 205.196.120.13
        megaupload.com 174.140.154.20
        fileshare.com 208.87.33.151
        multiupload.com 95.211.149.7
        uploading.com 195.191.207.40
        warez-bb.org 31.7.57.13
        hotfile.com 199.7.177.218
        gamespy.com 69.10.25.46
        what.cd 67.21.232.223
        warez.ag 178.162.238.136
        putlocker.com 89.238.130.247
        uploaded.to 95.211.143.200
        dropbox.com 199.47.217.179
        pastebin.com 69.65.13.216

   
Here’s a tip for the do-it-yourself crowd: Go to your computer’s Start menu, and either go to “run” or just search for “cmd.” Open it up, and type in “ping [website address],”


Once you have the IP for a website, all you really need to do is enter it like you would a normal URL and hit enter/press go. Typing in “208.85.240.231” should bring you to the front page of AO3, for example, just as typing “174.121.194.34/dashboard” should bring you straight to your Tumblr dashboard. Since we’re obviously bracing for the worst case scenario which would involve you not being able to access the internet regularly, you should, save this list.




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[D3AD_S1L3NT]

Well done dakota but they will eventually find a way to block using the ip to get into sites within the first 5 days. These sons a bitches gonna screw us...

[Cowgirl*^_^*]

I'll just cross over to the border to Canada some how and live with my friend lol

[smt]

you dont need to bother, just dont use an american DNS, all they can do is dns level blocking, unless they decide to close the actual website

[Somone77]

Any DNS takedown or IP block by US ISPs can be easily circumvented by using an overseas proxy.

[[FOOD] Waffle the Wafful]

The United Soviets of America...I swear this SOPA act is enraging. They really want America, the land of the FREE, be converted into communism-like acts?

[Lil_Killa]

i know right, there probably going to be a massive protest and tons of rage, Well its already happening ...

[D3AD_S1L3NT]

@Someone77 @Smt thx for the input im sure that is easier than going to live in canada...

Edit: okay i finally got this set up now how the heck do i find the server ips? Is there like a site that.has a shitload of servers or do i have to go run to canada and make a server? Help needed

[CrazyNinja]

If this passes I'm going to be mad and sad a the same time. ;_;

[Heavy]

If this passes I'll simply adapt.

It's not that big of a deal.

[D3AD_S1L3NT]

If this passes I'm going to be mad and sad a the same time. ;_;

Any DNS takedown or IP block by US ISPs can be easily circumvented by using an overseas proxy.

you dont need to bother, just dont use an american DNS, all they can do is dns level blocking, unless they decide to close the actual website

If this passes I'll simply adapt.

It's not that big of a deal.

 Ii dont think it will now because of what someone77 and Smt said. Sooner or later we will find our ways around it. There will be a program named some random name and we all dl it and get to use the internet correctly. Honestly now, i want it to pass, so we can rub it the fuck in barack obamas face and show him how much he fails.

And hi crazyninja