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That's 1 down, 141 to go. Who's next? http://judiciary.house.gov/issues/Rouge%20Websites/SOPA%20Su...

There's no good place to say this, but that URL bothers me every time I see it. What the hell are "Rouge Websites?" I think they meant something else. :-P

I haven't actually read the text of SOPA, but I have this amusing fantasy of Anonymous having planted a congressional staffer to do a global search-and-replace through the entire law. Then, when it passes, the following can occur:

EvilMegaCorp : Remove this rogue domain from your DNS immediately.

DNS : Sorry, we're not going to do that.

EvilMegaCorp : But you are legally required to, per SOPA!

DNS : Actually, SOPA only requires us to de-link rouge websites. The Engrish-branded knockoff Asian cosmetics industry has really been decimated by this.

EvilMegaCorp : << explodes in a fit of pique >>

Sigh. A nerd can dream...

Clearly, they mean websites that are red. Red means communist. We must protect ourselves from the threat of communism.

Make up America!!1 Every year we lose tens of thousands of dollars to counterfeit online cosmetics!

Fight the powder! We need SOAP to unmascara the pirates!

https://www.graphicartistsguild.org/ !! :) They point to position statements ( https://twitter.com/#!/gaguild/status/150004542073872386 <- written by the copyright alliance) that speak to copyright and say the bill's scope is narrow and specific (I disagree), but I didn't see anything about technical concerns. I think it's fair to say those position statements are a load of horse shit.

"Sure we're giving the gov't the right to indefinitely detain anyone, but they're only going to do it if someone is rilly rilly bad, so don't worry! :)"* <- constitutional and civil liberties protections do not work this way.

*I know SOPA isn't the same, it's just an analogy :)

I'm getting "The system cannot find the file specified." Anyone have a copy of the pdf or the fixed link?

Edit: Never mind, here is one: http://judiciary.house.gov/issues/Rogue%20Websites/List%20of...

The previous link was about "Rouge websites," not "Rogue websites."

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