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A SOPA compromise is floated

by labratmatt on 12/8/11, 12:09 AM with 5 comments

• by krschultz on 12/8/11, 2:37 AM

  This proposal just buries the process inside an agency that is ill-equipped to handle the tax. It will be completely ineffective in actually combating copyright infringement, but will cost a bunch of money. What value does that add to anyone? I'd rather spend that money on about 1,000 other public services first.

  And there is simply no way they will win with a process that takes months and months. They can't even stop fake goods from coming in all the time, and that requires a factory, a shipper, a receiver, a distributor, and network of guys on the street peddling fake goods to strangers that could easily be police. Do we really believe this will ever keep up with the pace of evolving copyright infringement methods?

• by JoshTriplett on 12/8/11, 2:03 AM

  This still does not look reasonable. It looks like business as usual for Congress: propose something awful, and compromise by only doing something partly awful. Doing nothing never remains on the table.

• by JamesBlair on 12/8/11, 1:38 AM

  My main concern was forcing payment processors to cut off organisations from their income. I don't know anything about the ITC, as I am a foreigner, but it seems that they are more at risk for being manipulated into a position where they do not properly investigate cases.

• by ypcx on 12/8/11, 5:27 AM

  Hey SOPA, cease and desist!