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"The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is stirring up a lot of controversy in the tech world. Companies that rely heavily on copyright protection call the bill piracy protection; those that rely on user-generated content call it censorship.\nThe bill strengthens the U.S. Justice Department\u2019s power to go after websites that host disputed copyright material \u2014 and could make sites such as YouTube and Tumblr that host such user-generated content liable for copyright violations.\nAOL, eBay, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Mozilla, Twitter, Yahoo and Zynga delivered a letter to members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives last month that argues SOPA \u201Cpose[s] a serious risk to our industry\u2019s continued track record of innovation and job creation, as well as to our nation\u2019s cybersecurity.\u201D They later ran the letter as a full-page ad in The New York Times.\nMeanwhile, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) support the bill. \n\"If rogue websites legislation passes, American jobs will be preserved and the Internet will continue to be free and open,\" reads an MPAA blog post. \"Content protection laws have given us the Internet of today, alive with innovation, free speech and commerce.\"\nAs the opposing sides launch arguments about how the other will ruin the Internet, the rules that incited this debate can be hard to sort out. The infographic below outlines the bill's history, how it would work and why some Internet companies oppose it.\n\n\n\n\n[Via Business Insurance Blog]"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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