Plans are afoot to revive the US Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) as soon as February, while Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web has thrown his weight behind the protesters against the bill. Addressing 5000 people at IBM’s Lotusphere event in Orlando, Florida, Sir Tim spoke of the threat which SOPA poses to the open Internet pointing out the international effects of the bill and its negative impact on human rights. Meanwhile, a press release has revealed that the bill could resume its progress through the American Congress next month.
“To enact legislation that protects consumers, businesses and jobs from foreign thieves who steal America’s intellectual property, we will continue to bring together industry representatives and Members to find ways to combat online piracy,” said Smith. “Due to the Republican and Democratic retreats taking place over the next two weeks, markup of the Stop Online Piracy Act is expected to resume in February.”
Opposition continues to the legislation from the technology community, which points out that the bill would “break the Internet” by allowing copyright holders to effectively remove sites from the domain name system (DNS), and interfere with free speech, since sites could be blocked on suspicion on vague charges of “”facilitating the activities” of copyright infringement.
His comments got “rousing applause” and were reported in outlets including the Sydney Morning Herald.
Sir Time has repeatedly stood up for the open Internet, criticised moves to interfere with Net Neutrality, and warning of the danger from walled gardens such as Facebook and iTunes.
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Can we have the email address of one of the principles persuing this evil agenda made know and we can all send a protest...a sort of legal and right DNS thingy.