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#include "head.wmi" TITLE="Blackout Against Copyright Overreach: Stop SOPA and PIPA" CHARSET="UTF-8"
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<h1><a href="https://blog.torproject.org/blog/blackout-against-copyright-overreach-stop-sopa-and-pipa">Blackout Against Copyright Overreach: Stop SOPA and PIPA</a></h1>
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<hr>
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<p>
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The Tor Project doesn't usually get involved with U.S. copyright
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debates. But SOPA and PIPA (the House's "Stop Online Piracy Act" and the
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Senate's "Protect-IP Act") go beyond enforcement of copyright. These
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copyright bills would strain the infrastructure of the Internet, on
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which many free communications -- anonymous or identified -- depend.
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Originally, the bills proposed that so-called "rogue sites" should be
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blocked through the Internet's Domain Name System (DNS). That would have
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broken DNSSEC security and shared U.S. censorship tactics with those of
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China's "great firewall."
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<p>
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Now, while we hear that DNS-blocking is off the table, the bills remain
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threatening to the network of intermediaries who carry online speech. Most
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critically to Tor, SOPA contained a provision forbidding "circumvention"
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of court-ordered blocking that was written broadly enough that it <a
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href="http://wendy.seltzer.org/blog/archives/2011/12/15/stopping-sopas-anti-circumvention.html">could
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apply to Tor</a> -- which helps its users to "circumvent"
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local-network censorship. Further, both bills broaden the reach of
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intermediary liability, to hold conduits and search engines liable
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for user-supplied infringement. The private rights of action and
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"safe harbors" could force or encourage providers to censor well
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beyond the current DMCA's "notice and takedown" provision (of which <a
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href="https://www.chillingeffects.org/">Chilling Effects</a> documents
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numerous burdens and abuses).
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</p>
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<p>
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On January 18, we're joining <a
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href="https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/01/16/wikipedias-community-calls-for-anti-sopa-blackout-january-18/">Wikipedia</a>,
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<a
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href="http://blog.reddit.com/2012/01/stopped-they-must-be-on-this-all.html">Reddit</a>,
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the <a
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href="http://blog.media.mit.edu/2012/01/media-lab-is-against-sopa-and-pipa.html">MIT
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Media Lab</a>, and <a href="http://americancensorship.org/">hundreds of
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others</a> in protest, turning a portion of the Tor site black to call
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attention to copyright balance and remind the US Congress and voters of
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the value of the open Internet.
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</p>
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<p>
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U.S. citizens, please call or write, to <a
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href="http://americancensorship.org/">urge your representatives to stop
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SOPA and PIPA</a>. Elsewhere in the world, keep an eye out for similar
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legislation. and bring the fight there too.
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</p>
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<hr>
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<h1>The above is a static version of our January 18 <a href="https://blog.torproject.org/blog/blackout-against-copyright-overreach-stop-sopa-and-pipa">blog post</a>.</h1>
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