The purpose of these bills is to make it harder for sites - especially those located outside the United States - to sell or distribute pirated copyrighted material such as movies and music as well as physical goods such as counterfeit purses and watches.
SOPA would enable the U.S. Attorney General to seek a court order to require “a service provider (to) take technically feasible and reasonable measures designed to prevent access by its subscribers located within the United States to the foreign infringing site.”
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