I don’t need to tell you all what the US Stop Online Piracy Act is about, because the Internet has talked about nothing else for the last few days (or at least, those parts of the Internet which haven’t been closed in protest against SOPA). It caused a great, great deal of controversy, far more than the UK’s Digital Economy Act ever did. Now it has been put on ice until “consensus” can be reached.
This is a short post with some thoughts from me about SOPA. For anyone who might be in doubt, I was opposed to SOPA, for the reasons I set out below. That said, I thought it might be helpful to actually read SOPA and give you some legal comments about it. Here goes…