01-09-2012, 09:56 AM
I'm sorry if I was unclear, Leanne. Let me try to explain why this is a very different situation than America trying to control Kraft Foods Australia:
When you type pigpenpoetry.com into your browser, the browser uses the DNS(Domain Name Server) to look up the actual IP that identifies the website. Think of it as a phone book for the Internet. The organization that controls the DNS is ICANN, a company based in the U.S. and therefore directly affected by SOPA. So if this bill is passed, google.com.anything will be affected in this way:
An offended site gets reported by the copyright holder . . . the U.S. government will then attempt to appeal to the site's owner to either remove the content or face a ban . . . in the worst case their DNS entry will be deleted(or blocked is more accurate) and when you type in blahblahblah.com.au you will get a 404 error from your browser.
Make more sense?
When you type pigpenpoetry.com into your browser, the browser uses the DNS(Domain Name Server) to look up the actual IP that identifies the website. Think of it as a phone book for the Internet. The organization that controls the DNS is ICANN, a company based in the U.S. and therefore directly affected by SOPA. So if this bill is passed, google.com.anything will be affected in this way:
An offended site gets reported by the copyright holder . . . the U.S. government will then attempt to appeal to the site's owner to either remove the content or face a ban . . . in the worst case their DNS entry will be deleted(or blocked is more accurate) and when you type in blahblahblah.com.au you will get a 404 error from your browser.
Make more sense?