Ryan Price's Soapbox

Looks scary doesn’t it. It could become a reality if the House of Representatives and Senate agree to pass the law known as SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) or PIPA as it’s known in the Senate (Protect Intellectual Property Act). So what exactly is SOPA and why should you care?

SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act, is a proposed bill that would allow owners of intellectual property to block or disable any website that they consider infringes on their intellectual property.

Unfortunately, the bill takes a “carpet bombing” approach to piracy and gives intellectual property owners unprecedented powers in being able to take websites down without any sort of due process. With this bill the government will assign liability to site owners for everything users post, and fine or block websites on which even one user posted material that a copyright holder considers infringing. Sites like YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter will be forced to monitor and filter everything posted to prevent this, which is likely impossible. Blacklisting could be initiated solely based on an assertion by a copyright holder, blocking access to websites before even proving infringement occurred. User generated content will become a liability that makes it nearly impossible to host. Do you want that? I sure don’t. We’re looking at something that can and will fundamentally change the internet and how we use it because a handful of congress people want to create the exact same system China has in place where they filter out everything.

So I ask of you this: PLEASE write your representatives, call them, do what ever it takes to convince them that this is bad for us and bad for all parties involved.

For a list of growing companies who support it:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xjisu18X6s7lPtAsIQg5Ol3KJjymPT2az1kasQVwGiw/edit?pli=1

For the list of those who support it look below:

Representatives(with email Addresses):

Lamar Smith [R-TX21]    lamars@hr.house.gov
Robert Goodlatte [R-VA6]    talk2bob@mail.house.gov
Marsha Blackburn [R-TN7]    unknown
Mark Amodei [R-NV2] unknown
Jim Cooper [D-TN5]  unknown
Peter King [R-NY3]  peter.king@mail.house.gov
Lee Terry [R-NE2]   unknown
John Barrow [D-GA12]    unknown
Dennis Ross [R-FL12]    unknown
Joe Baca [D-CA43]   unknown
Adam Schiff [D-CA29]    unknown
Elton Gallegly [R-CA24] unknown
Tim Griffin [R-AR2] unknown
Karen Bass [D-CA33] unknown
Debbie Wasserman Schultz [D-FL20]   unknown
Tim Holden [D-PA17] unknown
Howard Berman [D-CA28]  unknown
Mary Bono Mack [R-CA45] unknown
Steve Scalise [R-LA1]   unknown
Melvin Watt [D-NC12]    melmail@hr.house.gov
John Conyers [D-MI14]    jconyers@hr.house.gov
Ben Luján [D-NM3]  unknown
Steven Chabot [R-OH1]   unknown
John Carter [R-TX31]    unknown
Brad Sherman [D-CA27]   brad.sherman@mail.house.gov
John Larson [D-CT1] unknown
Alan Nunnelee [R-MS1]   unknown
Thomas Marino [R-PA10]  unknown
Judy Chu [D-CA32]   unknown
William Owens [D-NY23]  unknown
Ben Quayle [R-AZ3]  unknown
Ted Deutch [D-FL19] unknown

Senators(With their date of initial support):

Sen Alexander, Lamar [TN] – 5/25/2011
Sen Ayotte, Kelly [NH] – 6/27/2011
Sen Bennet, Michael F. [CO] – 7/25/2011
Sen Bingaman, Jeff [NM] – 10/19/2011
Sen Blumenthal, Richard [CT] – 5/12/2011
Sen Blunt, Roy [MO] – 5/23/2011
Sen Boozman, John [AR] – 6/15/2011
Sen Boxer, Barbara [CA] – 12/12/2011
Sen Brown, Sherrod [OH] – 10/20/2011
Sen Cardin, Benjamin L. [MD] – 7/13/2011
Sen Casey, Robert P., Jr. [PA] – 9/7/2011
Sen Chambliss, Saxby [GA] – 11/2/2011
Sen Cochran, Thad [MS] – 6/23/2011
Sen Coons, Christopher A. [DE] – 5/12/2011
Sen Corker, Bob [TN] – 6/9/2011
Sen Durbin, Richard [IL] – 6/30/2011
Sen Enzi, Michael B. [WY] – 9/7/2011
Sen Feinstein, Dianne [CA] – 5/12/2011
Sen Franken, Al [MN] – 5/12/2011
Sen Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [NY] – 5/26/2011
Sen Graham, Lindsey [SC] – 5/12/2011
Sen Grassley, Chuck [IA] – 5/12/2011
Sen Hagan, Kay [NC] – 7/5/2011
Sen Hatch, Orrin G. [UT] – 5/12/2011
Sen Isakson, Johnny [GA] – 11/2/2011
Sen Johnson, Tim [SD] – 10/3/2011
Sen Klobuchar, Amy [MN] – 5/12/2011
Sen Kohl, Herb [WI] – 5/12/2011
Sen Landrieu, Mary L. [LA] – 10/17/2011
Sen Lieberman, Joseph I. [CT] – 7/7/2011
Sen McCain, John [AZ] – 7/26/2011
Sen Menendez, Robert [NJ] – 10/31/2011
Sen Nelson, Bill [FL] – 9/23/2011
Sen Risch, James E. [ID] – 11/7/2011
Sen Rubio, Marco [FL] – 5/26/2011
Sen Schumer, Charles E. [NY] – 5/12/2011
Sen Shaheen, Jeanne [NH] – 6/30/2011
Sen Udall, Tom [NM] – 7/7/2011
Sen Vitter, David [LA] – 11/7/2011
Sen Whitehouse, Sheldon [RI] – 5/12/2011
Sen Moran, Jerry [KS] – 6/23/2011

PS: By the way I have wrote to both of our representatives in congress. They also will not get my vote come re-election time.