SOPA - opinions?

[Deadbolt]

The more i read about what the expectation is of protection and the methods that would be required, I can't help but see this as the beginning of the end of the internet as we know it.

Burden of policing placed on ISPs

Authoritarian control over ISPs' networks by government

Where will this lead?

Cable Television 2.0 I'm not sure how many users here actually understand how DNS works but those of you that do - doesn't this bill basically start the ball rolling towards 100% self contained "networks" ?

DNS had huge suggestive exploits for years because it works via consensus. Now, if you have some systems which "don't see" a website but others that do - thats the easy part. What will happen rather quickly is some domains may resolve to one address while another "ISP" may resolve it to another - because instead of allowing this consensus process, they now have to police their own DNS records, and "to err on legal safety" they will likely no longer run DNS on a consensus model but instead a true, whitelist.

Whitelisting will be cumbersome, cost money in maintenance and will ultimately (through the process of design and improvement) become propriety whitelist(s) and as such, the end user is no longer "surfing the internet" but instead "flipping through the cyber channels alotted to their subscription"

Is anyone else seeing this as the entertainment industry's goal ? Maybe it's just me but here's "the TLR" version of above:

Because of how this bill places responsibility of the DNS hide and seek game on the ISP - the ISP will evolve (devolve? ) into no longer using a DNS system but simply a whitelist. Am I mistaken? If so then how/why?

thanks

edit: to expand on this - the "holy wtf slopfest" that im worried about comes not from the ISPs or the end user but from the middle man - the website caught in this. Will websites have to pay a "listing fee" with ISPs to have their site listed? What if a site resolves one site with one ISP but another with another? The mess this could create, legally, is insane

[ibanezfoo]

Big brother strikes again. This current administration is doing every single thing it can to destroy every last freedom we have in this country. SOPA is just more of that. I'm all for buying games but people are gonna do what people are gonna do... This stuff is already illegal... what are they going to do, make it even MORE illegal? Pfft yeah right.

ON THE OTHER HAND... I kind of like when government makes all these restrictive rules because it spurs innovation. All kinds of cool shady encryption, private nets, you name it. Nowdays we can use wireless/microwave/laser technology and not even have to mess with ISPs to communicate. People get what people want no matter how "illegal" they make it.

Plus, it will majorly bog down the legal system, and thats not necessarily a bad thing...

[hcbr]

don't like it and they should not pass it, end of story

[CRACKERJACK]

Big brother strikes again. This current administration is doing every single thing it can to destroy every last freedom we have in this country. SOPA is just more of that. I'm all for buying games but people are gonna do what people are gonna do... This stuff is already illegal... what are they going to do, make it even MORE illegal? Pfft yeah right.

ON THE OTHER HAND... I kind of like when government makes all these restrictive rules because it spurs innovation. All kinds of cool shady encryption, private nets, you name it. Nowdays we can use wireless/microwave/laser technology and not even have to mess with ISPs to communicate. People get what people want no matter how "illegal" they make it.

Plus, it will majorly bog down the legal system, and thats not necessarily a bad thing...

I so wish I could side with you on this. But then I have to remember that it is a government mandate to have backdoor access, or as they like to call it, 'tap friendly.'

As for this bill, it's obviously ridiculous. Just look a the main groups supporting it. Copy right's and patents are a huge problem we face in the modern world. They were originally made to profit the inventor. (We actually have a pretty impressive history of ignoring them.) We've now extended them generation to generation for investors to profit, undermining their main goal, to profit the inventors. We easily forget that well over 99% of the inventions and ideas we live off today are ideas and inventions built upon from years past. A patent should guarantee the inventor a worth while profit, not hold back future progress solely for an investor to make money.

[NSR500]

They need to stay off my Internet.

[PsychGuy274]

Read "Faranheit 451"

That will tell you what will happen.