Meanwhile, Senate author of piracy bill says it needs 'more study'
(NEWSER) - SOPA author Lamar Smith is being roundly mocked thanks to Jamie Lee Curtis Taete of VICE , who found that as of July, Smith's own website violated copyright, using a background image without attribution. The photo was under a Creative Commons license, so if Smith had just credited the photographer, he could have used it for free. But that little mistake would be enough to get the site shut down if Smith's legislation passed, Geek-O-System points out, calling it SOPA's "primary failing, that common, insignificant mistakes can be blown out into DNS blocking for various flimsy reasons ranging from laziness to malicious intent." More»
