In April, GoDaddy General Counsel Christine Jones told lawmakers that the company would support efforts that required DNS blocking as a way to strike at foreign websites that infringe U.S. copyrights. As of Friday, Jones has removed posts at GoDaddy.com describing the company's support of provisions in SOPA. Click to expand...

Also this week, conservative think tank the Heritage Foundation, normally a strong supporter of copyright enforcement, voiced opposition to SOPA . The think tank has "serious and legitimate concerns" about SOPA's impact on Web security and freedom of speech, wrote James Gattuso, senior research follow in regulatory policy at Heritage. Click to expand...

SOPA, in allowing court orders to block the resolution of IP addresses by servers in the U.S., could entice Web users to "use less secure servers elsewhere to continue accessing blocked sites," he added. Click to expand...

SOPA still has strong support in Congress and among companies in several U.S. industries. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, one of the driving forces behind the bill, has said that more than 400 organizations have voiced support. Click to expand...

The bill would allow the U.S. Department of Justice and copyright holders to seek court orders blocking payment processors and online advertising networks from doing business with foreign sites accused of infringing copyright. Click to expand...

DOJ-requested court orders could also bar search engines from linking to the allegedly infringing sites. The court orders could require domain name registrars to stop resolving queries that direct traffic to those sites, and require Internet service providers to block subscriber access to sites accused of infringing. Click to expand...

SOPA - Stop Online Piracy ActSo I guess GoDaddy doesn't want to be held responsible for the content it hosts to a certain extent?Someone starts serving pirated copies of the latest 3D movie, they keep their hands off it?It is probably the only option for them maybe? They would never take the overhead of policing their properties, that would cost money. Right?Not sure if that is what it is about or not, but it seems like it could be.So they win support from Torrent Kiddies, and they lose support from authors and businesses.Here is a run down from PC world...In one sense, it is probably a good time to get paranoid about copyrights and such, and protection of web properties, on the other hand the potential for the government to have too much sway on the internet could arise as well.So maybe a little resistance while it all sorts out is okay. Government involvement might not be entirely a bad thing at the start, but who knows where it could lead? It's probably debatable.I am not hyper paranoid of government involvement, to my understanding if there were none at all, then domain names, and regulation just wouldn't exist in the first place, and maybe the web would be in a lot worse of a position.I know people who have had their entire business swiped from them. In the sense that perfect copies have popped up elsewhere and stayed there, so, maybe blocking a few websites is not a bad idea...