Ya hoplefully youre right. In almost all situations the world over, including M'sia, there will be the opposing voice in some kinda "rights groups" or what not. So far their track record have not been very successful. Govts and coperations will either use strong armed tactics or sidestep them. Money makes the world go round, in this instance Hollywood and other media institutions are major exports earnings.
According to article, this time, the bill is kinda brief. "COICA is a fairly short bill, but it could have a longstanding and dangerous impact on freedom of speech, current internet architecture, copyright doctrine, foreign policy, and beyond,". Leads one to think this is intentional so that they can expand its applicational "widths" as they go along. The cheek of it all, the US Attorney General making demands on other nations.
“Where the registry or registrar is not located in the United States, the Act would provide the Attorney General the authority to serve the order on other specified third parties at its discretion, including ISPs, payment processors, and online ad network providers,” Leahy said.
This is just speculative wishfull thinking. But I wonder it this might lead to a point when the rest of the world stop the US treating them as if its their backyard. Will there be another entity with independant resources big enough to administrate the rest of the world and break off from the US and let it be its own intranet. Imagine the political implications.
Oh well, we're not there yet but at least its good to know whats on the offing before any clamity. Sorry, I'm not a doom and gloom person, just practical looking at the horizon.
