60 Seconds Techno Stuff : What is SOPA and why you should know about it

Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA) is a bill that was introduced in the United States House of Representatives on 26 October, 2011. As to be used against copyright infringement.

It works like the filtering of DNS (Domain Name System) with DNSSEC (Domain Name System Security Extensions). Once the  ISP(Internet Service Provider)received an order to stop providing content of  websites that included infringed copyright materials, those websites will not be able to be browsed on the Web in America.(Search Engine, Domain Name Company and many more are included)

SOPA aims for a better copyright protection and fight against criminal online trafficking.

Basic Concepts

For Internet Users: Their Online Activities would be regulated.

For Business Owner(Especially Media): Their worries about copyrighted materials they owned being infringed would be gone.

For Search Engines: Their service of providing searching, would be limited.

For People who live outside America: They are afraid of their government would do the same or similar acts.

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For Reference:

The Library of Congress(Summary and Detail)

Wikipedia(Mostly Opposed Composer)
CNET News(Open Discussion/Medium-depth analysis/Reference)
International Bussiness Times(Affecting Factors)
ExtremeTech(SOPA's Damage)