SOPA and its implications for Indonesia

Popular internet service providers, ranging from Google to Wikipedia, reject the draft law of anti-online piracy in the U.S..The law in question there are two, Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA). Both are still in the process of legislation.Without going too far to discuss the details regulations, SOPA and the PIPE seem to not only have an impact on the U.S. site. Instead, the target of the bill are the sites that are outside the U.S..

Through the Bill, later the site outside the U.S. that is considered copyright infringement can be blocked unilaterally.
Blocking unilateralThere are two methods block. First, the U.S. Internet service providers to block sites that violate domain.The first method has so many parties and objections, according to PC World, have been excluded from the draft SOPA and the latest PIPA.The second method is to stop the business of the provider of payment services, advertising, and search engines from the site in violation.One of its application, if there is a site (including in Indonesia) in which a breach, then Google as a search engine does not may display that site in search results.Another example, if the site is considered to violate the earlier use PayPal for payment services, or AdSense for advertisements, the service also must be stopped.
SOPA more ferociousSOPA is considered more ferocious than PIPE because it defines a violated site as "any site that does or facilitating copyright infringement".Remember that copyright here not only pirated content, such as music video clips, song, or software. It also includes products that are considered physical abuse, such as children's toy version of the "kw".These are just examples, but it might be an illustration of the impact of SOPA. For example, in buying and selling a community forum in Indonesia's largest online store is open or there are other sellers of pirated products.
Through SOPA, the site could be banned from doing business with the United States. Thus, the ads (like Google Ads or other) will not appear on the site.Then, the payment via a U.S. based service, such as PayPal, also must not be conducted through the site. The site will also be forced to not appear in the search via Google.That scenario could certainly have an impact, both for those who use a service like PayPal on its website, as well as get additional revenue from AdSense ads and the like.
Refuse SOPAElectronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) refused to SOPA and PIPA. EFF said that the bill does not protect false accusation.For example, a site accused of violating, but proven innocent, still the site would be harmed. They will not receive compensation from blocking ads and payment services.On 15 November 2011, Google, Facebook, Twitter, Zynga, eBay, Mozilla, Yahoo, AOL, and LinkedIn have written an open letter to U.S. Senate and House members to oppose the SOPA.There is also a SOPA considers retaliation "Hollywood" because it could not fight against piracy. In fact, the "Hollywood" et al should fight with the business approach.
"It has been proven, the most successful fight against piracy is to create a platform that customers want, such as Spotify or Netflix," writes Mike Masnick from TechDirt.
War lobbyists 
Admittedly, in the end SOPA and PIPA is duel in the arena of legislation among the lobbyists from the camp "Hollywood" against lobbyists from the stronghold of the "Silicon Valley".However, its impact on industry internet / digital in Indonesia can not be ignored. So who will win? We wait for the outcome.

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