Monitored Alarm Systems

Another day, another group of people outside the points of how to cause problems soup / PIPA. This time, a large group of people involved in the production of educational content and services - including those associated with the MIT OpenCourseWare project, the Internet Archive, Creative Commons, Harvard, Stanford and many other areas, noting that the soup / PIPA threaten innovation and technology adoption in the education area:

Today there are thousands of sites that promote the legal distribution, mixing and distribution of educational content (such as Curriki, Connections, P2PU, YouTube, CK12). These services are the democratization of access to educational content.

Of course, sometimes they are misused. Fortunately, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act safe harbors draw a delicate balance - a content owner would issue a DMCA to remove content, but otherwise, the platform is not responsible for copyright infringement.



These bills would undermine this framework and cool to the creation of educational content. Or use sites that host-generated content may be necessary to monitor its site for infringing material, and potentially could have your domain blocked by the government if the content owners thought that the offense took place on this site . This represents an entirely new legal power of content owners to control the flow of online content and shape the very foundation of the Internet. In fact, it could lead to entire sites to be available because of the behavior of a small minority of users confused or malicious.
will of Congress continue to ignore these complaints