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Originally the bills were supposed to target sites/services outside of the US, but they were modified/amended for any site, anywhere. Essentially the laws they're trying to pass would strip carriers and providers of their protections. The problem is that people are malicious and will file lawsuits not to solve the issue, but because they can.

A simple example is - let's say all of these laws pass - even if we do monitor the content of each and every customer (nearly impossible, we'd need to hire at least a hundred people which would make the cost of our hosting ridiculously high) - if we missed a single file we could easily be sued for tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars just because a user uploaded a file we didn't see/catch. One single file, with the new laws, could put just about any provider out of business.

What's worse is that it's not just the end-hosting provider, but the upstream providers as well - our facility, our networking providers, everybody becomes liable.

Some of the biggest issues in my mind with SOPA/PIPA as they stood (not sure how they will be rewritten) are:

• They remove a provider's DMCA protections against litigation due to the actions of a client. Under SOPA/PIPA - the hosting provider, transit providers, etc... can all be sued for the actions of a client whether or not they were aware of those actions as though they were accomplices.
  
• Fake reports can take a site or an entire server offline without due process, and it can be expensive to fight the false claim.
  
• It won't solve the issue they're trying to fix - those who want to pirate/share copyrighted materials will continue to do so.

A short video that pretty much sums it up can be seen here:
http://fightforthefuture.org/pipa/

We never experienced the issues we're having now on the version we rolled back to - so it *should* be fine, but then again we haven't faced the issues on the newer version on any of our other servers that are all up-to-date. We'll update this thread as we know more. Keep in mind this only affects the Demeter server at this time which is a semi-dedicated only server.

You can request that we credit it to your account balance for invoices - as long as the commission has cleared its 60 days we'll be happy to do so even if you're not at $100 as long as you're not making a request to do it on a daily basis .