Websites will be required to police their own content for copyright violations of all kinds. Any website found in violation of the copyright rights of another party must be shut down, it's internet access blocked by its ISP, and all banking transactions from online payment providers must stop.

There is no burden of proof required to shut down a website. Any claim of copyright infringement could result in a court ordered shutdown.

Website owners will be responsible for policing content uploaded by their users. A violation could be ridiculously minor to qualify such as uploading a trademarked image, a photo of a celebrity, a clipping out of a newspaper, an audio clip of a movie, baseball game or TV show.

Uploading a copyrighted song or video would become a felony under the US Code.

The rules apply to foreign (non-US) websites, requiring US ISP's to block access to those sites.

The bills are opposed by virtually everyone: Google, Facebook, Yahoo, YouTube, AOL, Amazon and more...

Go to Google or any search engine and key in SOPA for more in-depth information.

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