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Stop SOPA and PIPA
Jan. 18th, 2012 08:49 amI can't really add much to what so many before me have said about these bills, so I'm going to write about what could happen to my little website.
My website stands at the border between copyright infringement and scholarly inquiry. If someone decided that the content on my website infringed on their copyrights, they wouldn't be required to prove it before I got sued into oblivion and my website got blocked. Worse yet, they could target the company that owns the servers my website is on.
We cannot trust that the government, lawyers, and corporations won't abuse the power granted them in this bill.
My website stands at the border between copyright infringement and scholarly inquiry. If someone decided that the content on my website infringed on their copyrights, they wouldn't be required to prove it before I got sued into oblivion and my website got blocked. Worse yet, they could target the company that owns the servers my website is on.
We cannot trust that the government, lawyers, and corporations won't abuse the power granted them in this bill.
