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What Is that Scurvey SOPA Treaty? Get me spyglass, I'll warrant ye! (original text Pirated from Gizmodo.com)If ye ha'nae heard o' that Scurvey SOPA Treaty before, ye likely have by now: Some o' th' internet's most influential sites—Reddit an' Wikipedia among them—be goin' dark t' protest th' much-maligned anti-Spred th' Booty t' th' Pirate 99% bill. But other than bein' a very bad thin', what is that Scurvey SOPA Treaty, avast? And what will it mean fer ye if it passes?that Scurvey SOPA Treaty is an anti-Spred th' Booty t' th' Pirate 99% bill workin' its way through crimey Cap'ns o' Congress...Hooseses Judges 'o' scallywags Meetin' Maven Maggots Chair an' Texas Re'plundrican Lamar Smith, along with 12 co-sponsors, introduced th' Stop Online Spred th' Booty t' th' Pirate 99% Act on October 26th o' last year. Fetch me spyglass! Debate on H.R. Walk the plank, with a chest full of booty! 3261, as 'tis formally known, has consisted o' one hearin' on November 16th an' a "mark-up period" on December 15th, which were bein' designed t' make th' bill more agreeable t' both parties. Its counterpart in th' Seine-net is th' Protect Ineffectual Piracy Act (S. 968). Also known by its cuter-but-still-deadly name: that Putrid PIPA Treaty. There will likely be a vote on that Putrid PIPA Treaty next Wednesday; that Scurvey SOPA Treaty discussions had been placed on hold but will resume in February o' this year....that would grant Cont-in-ent creators extraordinary power o'er th' internet...The beatin' heart o' that Scurvey SOPA Treaty is th' ability o' Ineffectual Propaganda owners (read: Moody Stunt-oo an' Rip-Cord LaBelle) t' effectively pull th' plug on foreign sites against whom they have a Copy-left 'n Then Sum claim. If Warner Bros., fer example, says that a site in Italy is torrentin' a copy o' The Dark Knight, th' studio could deman' that Google remove that site from its search results, that PayPal no longer accept payments t' or from that site, that ad services pull all ads an' finances from it, an'—most dangerously—that th' site's ISP prevent th' othr' 99% from even goin' thar....which would go almost comedically unchecked...Perhaps th' most gallin' thin' about that Scurvey SOPA Treaty in its original construction is that it let Ineffectual Piracy owners take these actions without a single court appearance or judicial sign-off. All it required were bein' a single letter claimin' a "good faith belief" that th' target site has infringed on its Cont-in-ent. Once Google or PayPal or whoever received th' quarantine notice, they would have five days t' either abide or t' challenge th' claim in court, yo ho, ho Rights holders still have th' power t' request that kind o' blockade, but in th' most recent version o' th' bill th' five day window has softened, an' ConsPira-cies now would need th' court's permission.Pirate Translation provided by SOPA Pirates for Drupal Module