The American government is skeptical about the controversial sopa legislation. In a statement to call three advisors of the president the protection of copyright is important, but the internet should, according to them, “open and innovative”.
“We find piracy on foreign websites is a serious problem,” they write. “But we will have no legislation support which has negative consequences for the freedom of expression, is bad for ict security or an innovative internet undermines.”
The legislation must be what the American government are directed specifically at foreign sites that intellectual property rights violation and not by the U.s. law can be addressed. Currently, there are fears that the legislation will also be used to American sites to address. For that reason, a number of sites, including Boing Boing, Reddit and XDA Developers, on 18 January to protest on black. Also Wikipedia is considering to do.
According to the White House in addressing the problem of piracy on the internet censorship can be avoided. As payment processors, ad networks, and search engines need to cooperate to address piracy, then there must be safeguards that prevent abuse. The involvement of such companies in addressing the problem of piracy is one of the measures proposed in sopa and protect-ip bills.
According to the White House has block websites via dns also negative consequences for the reliability of the dns system and the roll-out of the more secure dnssec protocol. Moreover, said the complainant of the sopa law last week that he is the relevant passage from the bill. The submitter of the similar protect ip act would plan to do the same.
According to Reuters, advocates of the two bills critically responded to the statement from the White House. The MPAA, an organisation for the film industry, admits that the White House has a point, but adds ‘that the protection of American jobs is also important, in these difficult economic times’.
The sopa law was already weakened. Initially, would copyright holders, without the intervention of the court piraterijsites offline. Later, it was decided that this is yet a court order was necessary. There is a lot of criticism on the two controversial bills. They are meant to be copyright infringement on the internet impossible to make, but according to a lot of companies and civil liberty organisations point is the law too far.