Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Could SOPA have an impact on Nonprofits?

According to this
Huffington Post article, the answer is yes. The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), a bill that seeks to put an end to selling pirated or counterfeit goods. Websites accused of copyright infringement could get shut down. No trial. No traditional court hearing, to which nonprofits wouldn’t be protected from.
Experts say that these bills may enforce costs and censorship that are overwhelming, as well as hurt online visibility. Content that could potentially be cited under SOPA includes infringing-looking links, according to AmericanCensorship.org, which would lead to blocked web traffic and ad revenue.
The real impact for nonprofits may come in the way of donations. SOPA would block the DNS servers of sites deemed “suspicious.” These servers translate .com domains into IP addresses, altering the DNS servers could directly affect a nonprofit's donation process, as interfering with the servers would make the sites subject to identity theft and cyber attacks, according to
Public Knowledge.
(Posted by: Diana Fitzgerald, Marketing Assistant)
Labels: censorship, Internet, nonprofit, SOPA
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