Posted on DJ Premier’s blog, which has been blacked-out today, much like Wikipedia (which was a bummer when I was trying to look up information about Redman) and an ass-load of other websites.

SOPA has clear repercussions for Canada, and in conjunction with the Canadian Copyright Reform Bill C-11 (admittedly less scary, but still “rite fucked”), could mean serious shit for people who like to do things on the internet.

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“[Michael] Geist outlined some of the ways the proposed laws could affect Canadians in a Jan. 17 blog post:

In the eyes of U.S. law, websites with domain names ending in .com, .net and .org are treated as American domestic domain names, regardless of where their owners are based, he wrote.

SOPA ignores the fact that IP addresses are assigned by regional, not national, entities. The American Registry for Internet Numbers allocates IP addresses for Canada (both for individual customers and governments) and 20 Caribbean nations, as well as the U.S. However, under SOPA, the IP addresses it allocates would be considered “domestic,” i.e., U.S., IP addresses.

SOPA effectively grants the U.S. jurisdiction over some foreign websites, said Geist.” (via CBC)

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