Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-7503158-20140315071920/@comment-1330470-20140318040543

I will opin that I have to doubt that "all fanart, fanfiction, and fan-made videos could be considered 'piracy' and removed". There are two elements in any case of copyright infringement: using someone else's copyright, and the copyright owner being ticked off about it. If you put your drawing of Sonic the Hedgehog on DeviantArt, technically, yeah, you're using someone else's copyright. Will they be ticked off enough to sue? I highly doubt that SEGA wants to be known as that company that uses force of law to remove simple fan art of their work, so no. I think that fanart would only really be an issue if someone wants to sell it or make money off of trademarked characters, which honestly is really shady legally anyway.

The real issues with SOPA are that it allows the government to block content at will. Thus, I'm sure that SOPA is bad, but it is kind of disappointing that so many of the people opposing it don't seem to understand it.