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Jan 17, 2012 · SOPA — the Stop Online Piracy Act — is a piece of legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives. The act is designed to target copyright infringers online through a series of harsh penalties.
Jan 27, 2019 · (CBC) The government has now clarified the rules with new amendments to Canada's Copyright Act. They state that piracy notices can't ask for personal information or a payment including a...
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SOPA's backers include the film, recording, media and pharmaceutical industries while internet and technology companies like Google, Facebook, Twitter, Mozilla, Yahoo and eBay have voiced opposition to the bill. The debate on the proposed legislation has been heated, as some recent tweets on the subject show. After the White House voiced its opposi...
Although SOPA and PIPA are intended to target "rogue" websites, for Canadians, the concern is that if the laws are passed, there might be collateral damage that harms legitimate sites. Geist outlined some of the ways the proposed laws could affect Canadians in a Jan. 17 blog post: In the eyes of U.S. law, websites with domain names ending in .com, ...
If SOPA becomes law, Geist expects the U.S. to try to export its rules to Canada and other countries. He notes that the Canadian government's proposed copyright modernization act, Bill C-11, was modelled on a similar U.S. law backed by the same industries pushing SOPA. The bill has been criticized for its provisions to prohibit the recording and co...
Corynne McSherry, intellectual property director for the internet rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation, raised several other concerns about SOPA in an interview in November with Dan Misener of the CBC Radio program Spark. SOPA could require Visa, MasterCard and PayPal to block payments to certain foreign websites or to websites a U.S. court ...
The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) was a proposed United States congressional bill to expand the ability of U.S. law enforcement to combat online copyright infringement and online trafficking in counterfeit goods.
Dec 22, 2011 · Because US copyright holders generally can't drag a foreign web site into US courts to get them to stop stealing and distributing their work, SOPA allows them to go after the ISPs, ad networks ...
Dec 16, 2011 · The Stop Online Piracy Act is a controversial bill that would allow the Justice Department to pull foreign sites "dedicated" to copyright infringement out of the DNS system and search...
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Jan 12, 2015 · A company that tracks online piracy in Canada has uncovered three million cases of illegal downloading and video streaming in the past three months. And notices have already been sent to...
