SOPA peut-il tuer internet?

Le SOPA, Stop Online Piracy Act , est un projet de loi présenté à la Chambre des représentants.

"Listen to Google, Facebook, PayPal and other Web companies, and you’ll hear that an online Armageddon is near: Bills now pending in Congress to thwart online piracy would violate free speech, destroy the technological underpinnings of the Web and hinder the user-generated innovation like the next YouTube or Twitter.
Listen to Walt Disney, the NFL, Eli Lilly and a slew of entertainment and manufacturing companies, and you’ll hear that the Internet is a lawless Wild West: Congress is only trying to be the sheriff and save American jobs, make sure writers and artists are paid and protect the public from fake Viagra and Coach bags peddled online.

So who is right?
The truth, as is often the case in heated battles on Capitol Hill between deep-pocketed constituencies that eye each other suspiciously, comes down somewhere in the middle.
“The ‘kill the Internet’ argument is something the other side trots out every time,” said Michael O’Leary, senior vice president for global policy and external affairs for the Motion Picture Association of America. He called it nothing more than “a delay tactic.”
The bills — Rep. Lamar Smith’s (R-Texas) Stop Online Piracy Act, the subject of a combative markup in the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday and Friday that will resume next Wednesday, and Sen. Patrick Leahy’s (D-Vt.) PROTECT IP Act, which is scheduled for a procedural vote on the Senate floor Jan. 24 — are intended to give authorities tools to thwart the illegal pirating of movies, music and counterfeit luxury goods on foreign websites.
Backers include a bipartisan array of lawmakers, unions and companies; they reject the comparison to Internet censorship tools the likes of which were used by repressive governments in China or during the Arab Spring."


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