Here's another

www.copyblogger.com/sopa/

Posted at 1:31 pm Jan 15, 2012 EST

SeeSpotStamp from SeeSpotStamp says Edited on Jan 15, 2012

Found this list of sopa supporters...If your against sopa you could also call the companies and say you won't buy their product. Disney is on there...not a good sign for Etsy. They will have to police the site better, so watch out for raises in your fees.

sites.google.com/site/boycottsopasponsors/home/list-of-supporters-a...

Posted at 1:45 pm Jan 15, 2012 EST

Thanks for the compiled info

Posted at 2:16 pm Jan 15, 2012 EST

I found this today on the dangers our selling partner faces from SOPA

www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/11/whats-blacklist-three-sites-sopa-coul...

Etsy

Etsy is an online marketplace for handmade goods, where users can set up a storefront and create listings for things they’ve made. There are over 800,000 active “shops” filled with these handmade goods — far too many for Etsy to monitor manually. Further, because of the eclectic nature of goods listed, it’s difficult to technically filter through the objects listed.

All that means that it’s not feasible for Etsy to proactively prevent listings that may be perceived to violate US copyright or trademark law. That’s a problem, because under SOPA, anybody who is a “holder of an intellectual property right harmed by the activities” of even a portion of the site, could serve Etsy’s payment processors with a notice that would require them to suspend Etsy’s service within 5 days. That means that a trademark violation in one of the storefronts could lead to payment suspension across the entire site. Unlike DMCA notices, which should be targeted to specific infringements, payment provider suspensions will likely target entire accounts. And even if Etsy protests, the bill's vigilante provisions, which grant them immunity for choking off a site if they have a "reasonable" belief that a portion of a site enable infringement, give the payment processors a strong incentive to cut them off anyway.

Posted at 3:01 pm Jan 15, 2012 EST

Thanks, Pink Mouse. That link doesn't seem to work, though. Do you have another version?

Posted at 3:59 pm Jan 15, 2012 EST

reposting from another thread:

Shan Parker from GreenIlluminations says

Here is a link for your shop banner if you'd like to participate in the blackout tomorrow.

shanparker.com/sopa.jpg

Posted at 5:09 pm Jan 17, 2012 EST

Here's the link Pink Mouse quoted:

www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/11/whats-blacklist-three-sites-sopa-coul...

Posted at 6:11 pm Jan 17, 2012 EST

just the info i was looking for - thanks!

Posted at 6:13 pm Jan 17, 2012 EST

hey everyone, I just started another thread on this but then I saw you were already talking about it! Here's what I posted: (Included is a link to another censorship banner you can put over your existing shop banner for tomorrow's protest! It'll let your banner peek out from underneath, but definitely gets the message across!)

Here's what I just posted in another thread, sorry to be repetitive....
Hey Everyone,
This SOPA thing is really starting to freak me out. This is our community, our livelihoods! We can't let this happen. Let's join the blackout tomorrow in our own Etsy way! (See below for a link to a censorship bar you can temporarily add to your shop banner for tomorrow's protest!!)
Banner: www.mediafire.com/?hy9mqb3b1egrks5

Read this:

"The language in SOPA will lead to a shutdown of sites like Etsy, Vimeo, and YouTube. How? Etsy is a storefront for almost a million small hand-made-goods creators. If even one of those almost-a-million vendors is accused of copyright infringement, under SOPA the entire Etsy marketplace would be shut down. Same for YouTube, Vimeo, Flickr, and any other user-generated-content-driven site. Seem like a howitzer aimed at a house-fly to you? Yep, it does to us, too.
Here’s what Consumer Electronics Association CEO Gary Shapiro had to say after he wasn’t allowed to testify before the House committee working on SOPA:
“The bill attempts a radical restructuring of the laws governing the Internet. It would undo the legal safe harbors that have allowed a world-leading Internet industry to flourish over the last decade. It would expose legitimate American businesses and innovators to broad and open-ended liability. The result will be more lawsuits, decreased venture capital investment, and fewer new jobs.”
Sounds like a job-killing howitzer to us."
- taken from TECHEAD, www.techead.com/stop-sopa/

"Etsy is an online marketplace for handmade goods, where users can set up a storefront and create listings for things they’ve made. There are over 800,000 active “shops” filled with these handmade goods — far too many for Etsy to monitor manually. Further, because of the eclectic nature of goods listed, it’s difficult to technically filter through the objects listed.
All that means that it’s not feasible for Etsy to proactively prevent listings that may be perceived to violate US copyright or trademark law. That’s a problem, because under SOPA, anybody who is a “holder of an intellectual property right harmed by the activities” of even a portion of the site, could serve Etsy’s payment processors with a notice that would require them to suspend Etsy’s service within 5 days. That means that a trademark violation in one of the storefronts could lead to payment suspension across the entire site. Unlike DMCA notices, which should be targeted to specific infringements, payment provider suspensions will likely target entire accounts. And even if Etsy protests, the bill’s vigilante provisions, which grant them immunity for choking off a site if they have a “reasonable” belief that a portion of a site enable infringement, give the payment processors a strong incentive to cut them off anyway."

- taken from Rock The Capital, www.rockthecapital.com/11/23/blacklist-sites-sopa-put-risk/

I think it's really important that our community as well as our loyal and wonderful customers know about how SOPA/PIPA threatens Etsy.

So Here's what I'm doing about it:

I am voluntarily censoring my shop banner with a black bar with the words "HELP SAVE ETSY! STOP SOPA!" written on it, followed by a link (americancensorship.org) to the website people can go to in order to sign a petition against SOPA/PIPA.

Join me!
If you want the file that you can just slap onto your existing banner, go here: www.mediafire.com/?hy9mqb3b1egrks5

just put this image as a new layer over your existing banner file, and upload as your banner.

Obviously this isn't forever, just until the craziness ends or whenever you feel like un-censoring your banner. I would definitely suggest we do this for tomorrow January 18th, in solidarity with the national internet blackout. But it will give the community and our customers a taste of the dystopian future that will be reality if we don't stop SOPA.

love,
Mariah

Posted at 6:27 pm Jan 17, 2012 EST