No, A New SOPA Is Not Likely, But There's Still Plenty Of Damage That Can Be Done | Techdirt Lite http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121224/14512521477/no-new-sopa-is-not-likely-theres-still-plenty-damage-that-can-be-done.shtml ..." Historically, when the entertainment industry doesn't get
its way in Congress, it just moves into international fora
to seek the same thing. That's how we got the DMCA, of
course. Congress hadn't been interested until copyright
lobbyists went to WIPO (the World Intellectual Property
Organization) and got it to create a treaty in 1996 that
more or less required the DMCA. ".... RRD: I support intellectual property rights but opposed & oppose SOPA because of technical concerns about the effects of the DNS block/no-resolve provision,& also because I believe it may have insufficient due-process safeguards to protect non-infringing content.
its way in Congress, it just moves into international fora
to seek the same thing. That's how we got the DMCA, of
course. Congress hadn't been interested until copyright
lobbyists went to WIPO (the World Intellectual Property
Organization) and got it to create a treaty in 1996 that
more or less required the DMCA. ".... RRD: I support intellectual property rights but opposed & oppose SOPA because of technical concerns about the effects of the DNS block/no-resolve provision,& also because I believe it may have insufficient due-process safeguards to protect non-infringing content.
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