Sopa supporters why

The big problem with SOPA is in the way it is supposed to be enforced, namely by blocking domain-name system DNS servers of copyright-infringing websites. But DNS servers are a basic technical component of the Internet they translate site names like beta. Once you start messing with DNS, all sorts of unintended problems arise.

Blocking DNS without a full adversarial hearing in a courtroom raises the potential for censoring speech and other lawful activities. The practice also undermines new security protocols.

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US-based internet service providers, payment processors and advertisers would be outlawed from doing business with alleged copyright infringers. Sopa also calls for search engines to remove infringing sites from their results - Pipa does not include this provision. The bills would also outlaw sites from containing information about how to access blocked sites.

The bills originally demanded that internet service providers block users from being able to access suspect sites using a technique called Domain Name System DNS blocking. This would effectively make them "disappear" from the internet - and is a process already used in China and Iran.

However, after opponents claimed this could disrupt the internet's underlying architecture, the chief sponsor of each bill agreed to ditch the measure.

To protect sites against false claims of illegal activity Sopa proposes penalising copyright holders who knowingly misrepresent a site's activity - however, Pipa does not contain this safeguard.