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[Daniel Foré <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I hardly think we wouldn't be affected by it. We use Facebook, Google (plus, docs, search, mail, etc), Twitter, YouTube, etc to reach our users and they are all affected.

Best Regards,
Daniel Foré

www.elementaryos.org

On Jan 9, 2012, at 3:11 AM, Сергей <shnatsel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I can't see SOPA/PIPA directly affecting elementary. We hardly have
> any user-posted content on the website, and the one we have tends to
> be freely licensed. We do rely on external services like imagebin,
> pastebin, etc, but that's not vital and we could probably host
> something similar ourselves. Fortunately, SOPA/PIPA don't seem to
> allow boundless patent abuse [yet], so Apple and Microsoft's puppet
> consorciums won't be able to instantly shut us down either, the best
> thing they can do is not mentioning us (like they do with WINE).
> So I'd rather not tie it into elementary and instead present it as
> being out of our scope and not affecting us directly, but crippling
> the overall UX.
> 
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> shnatsel
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