[Off-topic] audi_on_u:
Hello fellow members of XDA. I feel as though there is not enough information regarding some issues going thru th US Congress in the next week and a half that are going to affect the internet and the way our privacy is in turn treated. As you can see up top of screen there is an annoucment regarding this issue but its not informative enough to speak loud enough for this cause.

If you use any form of the internet this is going to affect you. Below is a short list of some items that are of the worst parts of this bill trying to stop the first admendment and our use of free speach.

Please Contact you State Rep use facebook,twitter,any outlet you can to get these messages to the public.

ADD WHAT ELSE YOU FIND

LETS PUT A STOP TO THIS

The examples used below have come from various sources such as CNET,Craigslist,and EFF.

Q: What's the justification for SOPA and Protect IP?

Two words: rogue sites.

That's Hollywood's term for Web sites that happen to be located in a nation more hospitable to copyright infringement than the United States is (in fact, the U.S. is probably the least hospitable jurisdiction in the world for such an endeavor). Because the target is offshore, a lawsuit against the owners in a U.S. court would be futile.

For example, Monster Cable considers craigslist a "rogue site" for takedown under PIPA - they want to prevent YOU from selling YOUR unwanted cables so they can increase sales and stop second hand sales.

On November 15, Google, Facebook, Twitter, Zynga, eBay, Mozilla, Yahoo, AOL,Craigslist and LinkedIn wrote a letter to key members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, saying SOPA poses "a serious risk to our industry's continued track record of innovation and job creation, as well as to our nation's cybersecurity." Yahoo has reportedly quit the U.S. Chamber of Commerce over the organization's enthusiastic support for SOPA.

What will SOPA require Internet providers to do?

A little-noticed portion of the proposed law, which CNET highlighted in an article, goes further than Protect IP and could require Internet providers to monitor customers' traffic and block Web sites suspected of copyright infringement.

"It would cover IP blocking," says Markham Erickson, head of NetCoalition, whose members include Amazon.com, Google, eBay, and Yahoo. "I think it contemplates deep packet inspection" as well, he said.

The exact requirements will depend on what the removal order says. The Recording Industry Association of America says that SOPA could be used to force Internet providers to block by "Internet Protocol address" and deny "access to only the illegal part of the site." It would come as no surprise if copyright holders suggested wording to the Justice Department, which would in turn seek a judge's signature on the removal order.

Deep packet inspection, meaning forcing an Internet provider to intercept and analyze customers' Web traffic, is the only way to block access to specific URLs.

Would SOPA block Tor?

Perhaps. In an echo of the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act's anticircumvention section, SOPA targets anyone who "knowingly and willfully provides or offers to provide a product or service designed or marketed by such entity...for the circumvention or bypassing" of a Justice Department-erected blockade.

Legal scholars contacted by CNET said Tor could qualify as a "circumvention" tool, which would allow it to be targeted.

What happens next?

In terms of Protect IP, the Senate Judiciary committee has approved it and it's waiting for a floor vote that has been scheduled for January 24.