On November 17th, 2011, Declan McCullagh wrote for CNET on how the list of those opposed to SOPA/Protect IP Act is growing.  Specifically, the article notes how the director of Sandia National Laboratories (part of the US Department of Energy and a leading cybersecurity lab) recently said that SOPA is "unlikely to be effective" and will "negatively impact U.S. and global cybersecurity and Internet functionality."  SOPA, or the Stop Online Piracy Act, is a piece of legislation currently in the House of Representatives that would allow the Justice Department to shut down copyright-infringing websites.  There is a companion bill in the Senate (the Protect IP Act) which would have the same effect.  Of course, no one outside of Hollywood (who loves the idea of stopping pirated, copyrighted material) is happy with either piece of legislation.

The article goes on to explain how SOPA/Protect IP Act would screw with US cybersecurity by "impacting security improvements to the Internet's domain name system, called DNSSEC."  Moreover,  Rep. Dan Lungren (head of the Homeland Security subcommittee on cybersecurity) said that SOPA would "undercut the real effort that would practically help us secure the Internet."

The source article can be found here.

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Below is a good, albeit opinionated, video summary of Protect IP.

Here's the YouTube link for the same video.

On November 17th, 2011, Declan McCullagh wrote for CNET on how the list of those opposed to SOPA/Protect IP Act is growing.  Specifically, the article notes how the director of Sandia National Laboratories (part of the US Department of Energy and a leading cybersecurity lab) recently said that SOPA is "unlikely to be effective" and will "negatively impact U.S. and global cybersecurity and Internet functionality."  SOPA, or the Stop Online Piracy Act, is a piece of legislation currently in the House of Representatives that would allow the Justice Department to shut down copyright-infringing websites.  There is a companion bill in the Senate (the Protect IP Act) which would have the same effect.  Of course, no one outside of Hollywood (who loves the idea of stopping pirated, copyrighted material) is happy with either piece of legislation.

The article goes on to explain how SOPA/Protect IP Act would screw with US cybersecurity by "impacting security improvements to the Internet's domain name system, called DNSSEC."  Moreover,  Rep. Dan Lungren (head of the Homeland Security subcommittee on cybersecurity) said that SOPA would "undercut the real effort that would practically help us secure the Internet."

The source article can be found here.

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Below is a good, albeit opinionated, video summary of Protect IP.

Here's the YouTube link for the same video.