SOPA???

[fabbemannen]

SOPA was put on hold for a year, think the same thing happened with PIPA. And then we got ACTA of course.
I haven't checked ACTA, but both PIPA and SOPA would kill the internet, and no politics wants to support it (if they do, their carrier is over, seriously!).

If, let's say SOPA, would go through, pretty much every single page on the internet could get taken down.

When it comes to Nintendo, I asked Nintendo Bergsala (Sweden's HQ) a few month's ago about the copyright of covers, and they asked someone, whom replied that they don't mind covers or similar things being out on the internet as it doesn't inflict any damage.
But due to massive requests, they does not give out permission to normal persons to use their material (for Youtube etc.)

[Jamaha]

NSM might technically be infringing Nintendo's copyrights. Or not. Haven't really researched that stuff. I don't really see Nintendo suing me for this, though. We're not even making any profit. (In fact, it costs me $100+ a year to run this.)

[Raymondbl]

(In fact, it costs me $100+ a year to run this.)

Do you have your own servers?

[spitllama]

Yah whoa I didn't know it cost you money

[Jamaha]

It has since we transferred from Drshnaps.

[fabbemannen]

(In fact, it costs me $100+ a year to run this.)

Site needs more ads

[spitllama]

Well geeze... I guess thanks are in order

Thank you for paying out of your own pocket to give to the community.




This should be tax-deductible.

[K-NiGhT]

Just heard that SOPA is getting thrown in under some other bill against child pornography...so it's still gonna pass it looks like...this seems like total bull. Sheet music > Child Porn.

It just doesn't make sense.

[SuperFireKirby]

ACTA

[Olimar12345]

[NintendoPianoGirl]

Remember, the law is only American

I know that its been put on hold, but if SOPA were to pass, would Canada be affected? is it worldwide or just American? Its confusing to me.

[K-NiGhT]

It sounds like they could shut down any website that seems to have pirated content.

[Cobraroll]

^That is not entirely true.

The act (SOPA) allows copyright holders to demand that ISPs, DNS services (the service translating ninsheetm.us into our server's IP address whenever you type the URL and press Enter), search engines and advertisers cut the connections to the offending site. They can legally do this if actors involved (the domain name register, the ISP, the advertisers or even the financial transaction site that gives the site the pay for their advertising) are based in the USA.

As NSM is registered under the .us domain, we could be cut off from the domain name. That means that the DNS service would refuse to translate "ninsheetm.us" into the IP address for the users, so we'd have to type this adress into the search field manually instead.
Also, searching for "Ninsheetmusic" on Google wouldn't yield any results connected to this site. Just a lot of dead hyperlinks from other sites, I guess.
If JaMaHa was to sign a deal with an American advertiser, these would be taken down upon copyright infringement request. If said advertiser was based elsewhere, but used, say, PayPal to give the ad revenue to JaMaHa, the ads would still be up, but the advertiser wouldn't be able to pay us for them.

Also, American users wouldn't be able to view the site at all, even with a manually inserted IP adress, due to their ISP's blocking the site.



However, there would still be ways around it. Let's pretend that SOPA was passed and we were filed for infringement right now. If we suddenly registered under ninsheetm.fi instead, the site would be fully viewable for everybody. Again, except for the Americans.
Adverts, had we had any, could also be provided by somebody else. As we're based in Finland now, we'd probably be advertising for IKI or Altia or something. If those companies used pay services based in Europe, Asia, Africa, South America, Oceania, Antarctica, Mexico or Canada to pay JaMaHa for having the banners there, we wouldn't be affected.
We still wouldn't be anywhere to find on a Google or Bing or Yahoo! search, our Facebook, MySpace, Google+ and Twitter pages would possibly be taken away, but we'd still top the listed results on, say, Kvasir, and our potential Weiboo page would still be going strong.

Yeah, the point is, SOPA would kinda suck for Americans. And, of course, the American Internet industry. Elsewhere-based alternatives to the American services would skyrocket. Even if SOPA was pulled away after the next election, the damage would be irreversible.

Of course, this is not taking ACTA into account. This would allow the American copyright holders to request European ISPs to block services based in their respective countries.

Somehow, I can see Swiss Internet industry going way up should this become reality.

[fabbemannen]

The problem is that pretty much every big webpage got a server or something related to the US.
But SOPA would never pass, companies like Google, Facebook, *insert popular site here* would never let it

[DrP]

The problem is that pretty much every big webpage got a server or something related to the US.
But SOPA would never pass, companies like Google, Facebook, *insert popular site here* would never let it

If and only if the bribes to lobbyists and politicians exceeds that of the entertainment industry... this is basically a war of "who has the most money to get our way?"

If the bill passes, the tech industry may just either 1) adhere to SOPA/PIPA or 2) Pack up and go

Well geeze... I guess thanks are in order

Thank you for paying out of your own pocket to give to the community.

This should be tax-deductible.

Seriously, once SOPA and PIPA are off the table for good, JaMaHa should file for 501(c)(3) with the IRS and then accept tax-deductible donations from the community to help offset the cost. You will have to file a return with the federal government and make sure that you do not show a profit.