SOPA & PIPA...

[motordavid]

Otoh, if an offshore, (or US based), website offers movies, music, any copyrighted material, what is to be done to contain/curtail that common situ?

The orig intent, from my reading on the topic, and trying to interpret the bill(s) was to provide for legal pressure on any site, legit or otherwise, that support, list, click to, allow for the easy access to those sites that simply don't seem to give a damn about copyright material or intellectual property.

The bill then got passed around, worked over by the K Street lobbyists, literally 'written' by interested/lobbying parties' staffs, and evolved to being a boiler plate, draconian nightmare.

Back at the Everything is Free & Fook the Copyright Laws Ranch, the orig intent is diluted, and nearly unenforceable without the 20 lb sledge hammer of banging on any/every site that ever allows or lets 'copyright/intellectual material' be 'used/viewed', and we have those two proposed pieces of Congressional Crap, (that phrase may be redundant.)

But, does no none else wonder, or care, about copyrights?

Not pimping for Hollywood or TV, or all the interconnected media giants we have today, and all of us often use referral links on articles, and related 'entertainment', but curbing that kind of 'use' was never the original intent...thus, the PIPA/SOPA bills were developed and incubated through the typical congressional process, going way overboard and with basically building a large claymore mine, when they really wanted a laser beam...and the reaction was as expected.

The next version(s) will be diluted, rearranged, and tossed up again at the scoreboard, but the basic copyright infringement abuse issue, esp by offshore pirates, is not going to go away, nor should it, imo.
GL, mD