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SOPA/ PIPA Introduced
Stop Online Piracy Act/The Protect IP Act
Goal: To give the US government and copyright holders power to limit copyright infringement online by way of blocking domains.
Bypass DMCA
How? Stop advertising networks and payment facilities from conducting buisness with accused websitesSearch engines from linking to websitesISP to block access to websitesStop streaming of copyrighted content
Pro: protect the intellectual-property
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ACTA Signed by 31 nations
Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
“international version of the U.S. SOPA legislation”
The agreement was signed in October 2011 by Australia, Canada, Japan, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea, and the United States.. In 2012, Mexico, the European Union and 22 countries which are member states of the European Union signed as well.
International treaty for the purpose of establishing international standards for intellectual property rights enforcement. -
White House will not support SOPA
White House released a press release that said it did "not support legislation that reduces freedom of expression, increases cybersecurity risk, or undermines the dynamic, innovative global internet." -
Protests against SOPA/PIPA
Wikipedia blackout. Also Google, Flickr, Tumblr ... 115,000 websites joined.
GoDaddy protest.
3 million people emailed Congress to express opposition to the bills -
Anonymous launches DDoS attacks
on pro-SOPA organizations (CBS) etc.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wdiosa7W22I (Also coincided with takedown of Megaupload) -
NYT reports PIPA/SOPA "shelved"
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CISPA Introduced
“Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protect Act” -
CISPA Petition
The global civic organization Avaaz[5] was one of the first groups to react to the news of CISPA with an online petition titled “Save the Internet from the US.” Since its launch on April 5th, 2012, the petition has accumulated more than 752,000 signatures in less than three weeks. The petition was further supported by the community of Reddit, which played an integral role during the online protests against SOPA and PIPA in January 2012. -
CISPA passes HOR
On April 26th, the House passed bill with 248 yes votes and 168 no votes. Great Q&A on CISPA by EFF
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/04/cybersecurity-bill-faq-disturbing-privacy-dangers-cispa-and-how-you-stop-it -
Anonymous: "Operation Defense"
On April 27th, Anonymous-affiliated YouTube channel TheAnonMessage uploaded a communique video titled “Operation Defense: Phase II" They say since DDoS attacks are not as effective as of late, the new attack method will consist of physical demonstrations similar to the ones they performed around Scientology centers. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hdv5xR5YqFM -
ACTA struck down by EU
The European Parliament rejected a global agreement against copyright theft on Wednesday, handing a victory to protesters who said the legislation was an international version of the U.S. SOPA legislation that spurred on the Wikipedia blackout protest this January.
