{"id":2120,"date":"2011-12-24T11:54:25","date_gmt":"2011-12-24T16:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acro.net\/blog\/?p=2120"},"modified":"2011-12-24T12:21:22","modified_gmt":"2011-12-24T17:21:22","slug":"sopa-com-a-great-resource-tool-in-the-right-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acro.net\/blog\/sopa-com-a-great-resource-tool-in-the-right-hands\/","title":{"rendered":"SOPA.com &#8211; A great resource tool in the right hands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8216;SOPA&#8217; buzzword will remain alive through the holiday season and beyond, especially since the Congress has yet to decide on the fate of the bill by the same name.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Stop Online Piracy Act&#8221; gives controversial authority to the US Government to take down any web site and content it deems infringing or unlawful, without a due process.<\/p>\n<p>It seems that <a href=\"http:\/\/SOPA.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>SOPA.com<\/strong><\/a> is owned by <a href=\"http:\/\/acro.net\/blog\/domains\/there-are-still-gentlemen-in-the-domain-industry\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>a great gentleman of a domainer<\/strong><\/a> that I had the pleasure to engage in business with and whom I commended in a prior post.<\/p>\n<p>Vincent owns SOPA.com and has plans to build it into an informational web site and to give visitors the opportunity to raise their concerns about the SOPA bill and its ramifications for the Internet and the domain industry.<\/p>\n<p>With large corporations like GoDaddy <a href=\"http:\/\/domaingang.com\/domain-news\/bob-parsons-reveals-the-new-godaddy-logo-after-sopa-fiasco\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>flip-flopping on the SOPA<\/strong><\/a> issue, there seems to be a need now, more than ever, for a centralized point of defense against unconstitutional legislation &#8211; and SOPA.com is the right URL to do it from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8216;SOPA&#8217; buzzword will remain alive through the holiday season and beyond, especially since the Congress has yet to decide on the fate of the bill by the same name. 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