Wikipedia, Google protest US antipiracy proposals

Where's the law to keep congress from stealing from me?

The law is a blunt instrument. As long as it has to apply to everyone, even a well written law will sometimes be wrong and even a poorly written one may sometimes get it right. This law, written with the pretext of restricting the theft of property, is actually more likely to be used as a powerful censorship tool. If you like the Suppression of Liberties Act you'll love this one.

How about making laws to charge FEES from all companies posting their adds on our home TV screens and internet browsers without our approval or consent.

These bills are nothing more than the Music and Movie industries trying to past the cost of fighting piracy on to the American people so they can keep more of their millions.

Make no mistake about this, any Laws passed in the US mean nothing to the international community and 90% of all pirate sites are not based in the USA which means that these laws will not stop anything at all. They will how ever allow the US government to control what websites American's can access and what websites American's cannot access. NO THANK YOU.

The internet is the last place with truly free speech and personal freedoms, do you really want the US government to control it?

EVERYONE! Boycott the movie theater today! Then Hollywood will get the message because the only thing they understand is an empty cash drawer.

Not much I can do about except for voting against any Senator or Representative that votes yes on this. Especially the authors of the bills. Hollywood just makes crappy movies and sound studios make crappy music. That is why you all are not making any money you morons! Stop trying to sue your way out of you current financial situation. Like what Apple is currently doing in Europe. Make a better product and people won't pirate it, they will buy it you idiots!

Hollywood should be happy for the pirates at least that way someone will watch their stupid movies in that most Americans are too BROKE to pay the box office admission these days

About time someone stood up for rights even though its self interest. At least this time someone had money and power to fight back.

We need to stop Congress from giving themselves raises every year, and full pensions with medical benefits from day 1. What a joke!

I fully support the rights of artists being able to have some protection of their work, and the right to profit from it, but this law does not appear to be a reasonable way of dealing with piracy.

"pending U.S. legislation aimed at shutting down sites that share pirated movies and other content."

Or, legislation aimed at stifling free speech, honest journalism, and exchange of ideas, masquerading as that which would put a stop to online piracy (but which would actually fail to do so).

Keep it up its working Rubio(an original sponsor of the bill) has now flipped and is against it, more Congress Critters are supporting the protest against SOPA-PIPA.

We already have enough laws to handle piracy; (remember Napster ?) We MUST fight to keep big Government, their lobbyists, and the industries that have bought and paid for them OUT OF OUR LIVES!

You might consider sending something like this to your representatives in congress:

I oppose SOPA and PIPA as an unnecessary and irresponsible expansion of government power. We already have more than sufficient laws on the books to control intellectual piracy.

The effect of these bills would be the same as suggesting that we should prosecute gunmakers because a criminal used a gun to kill someone.

My greatest concern, however, is the inevitable unforseen and unintended consequences in these bills. There is no doubt in my mind that unscrupulous lawyers, businesses and politicians will use these bills to limit free speech, unfairly reduce competition and censor the free flow of ideas.

I guess the media blackout of Ron Paul is some sort of SOPA beta testing then, right?

censorship of the internet is simply another grab at our quickly deteriorating human rights in this country...there is a system already available to the victims in this crime...its the u.s. courts. Why should the entertainment industry be afforded special treatment, if someone steals from you, do you get a special law passed that will protect you...no. The government has NO business censoring the internet, and these bills are designed to give more government control over its subjects.

The goals of SOPA and PIPA is so that we can be like North Korea, Iran and any country that can censor their information. We go around and ridicule other countries for censoring their internet access and information, yet here we are our own government is working on the same.

We really need to fire congress and hire people that work for U.S. citizens instead of their corporate paymasters.

People Should Know:
SOPA and PIPA is all about Protecting the Corporate Media, Censorship and Controlling the News Outlets.
It is hiding behind Piracy Act. etc.

This is not America. There are some who do piracy of copy righted materials. But in comparison it is not as really staggering as it seems. But this is a major plan to infringe upon the majority of the people. It will not stop at this if it is allowed to pass. We are not under a nation controlled by regime's. Take the people's Freedoms from them they will only have one recourse. And it will not be pleasant. And any politician who favors such legislation. Needs to be unemployed at the end of this year.