The key part of what you quoted was "dedicated to infringement". Whether it is this bill or any future piracy bill, this term will be used; it has its own definition in all piracy bills. This site is not dedicated to infringement and is in no danger of being affected by any piracy legislation.
Neither are the hip-hop blogs that were wrongly identified by the RIAA as dedicated to infringement- they were hosting hip-hop tracks supplied either by the artists, the artists' representatives, or the major labels themselves.
http://c4sif.org/2011/12/innocent-hip-hop-blog-shut-down-by-ice-for-a-year/Neither was 50-Cent's own site, yet his label labeled it a rogue pirate site anyway, and sent a take-down notice to youtube to remove a brand-new 50-Cent video that, uh, 50-Cent put up.
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110620/16364214774/did-universal-music-declare-50-cents-own-website-is-pirate-site.shtmlhttp://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111226/23573217193/universal-music-takes-down-50-cents-official-youtube-video.shtmlBottom line, the big boys often don't know what their left hand is doing while they're "fighting piracy" with their right hand, and the US government, at least over the past year and a 1/2 of ICE takedowns, has been happy to just go along with whatever Daddy RIAA or Momma MPAA says.
I'm writing this from the point of view of the GM of a small independent record label, as well as a band member whose bands sell music on-line. I do not trust the conglomerates- who don't represent my label or my bands or my scene- and the government- who don't know me from Adam Ant- to "protect" my art and my businesses' art from pirates.
We file takedown notices against faceless blogs who mass-distribute our stuff, but if it's an actual fan site, we contact them and 99% of the time they happily substitute the link to our release for the download link they were offering beforehand. This is reasonable and allows us to control our music on-line, as well as build good will amongst blogs who are our community and will, in the future, continue to be supportive of us and our bands.
By the way, Joey Vindictive posted his website here a while back, and he was giving away literally ALL of his bands' songs digitally. For free. What if Hopeless, or Lookout, or any number of the labels he's been on filed a SOPA/PIPA notice against his site? Without the ability to prove that he has the rights to do whatever he wants with his music, which is what he has currently, his site is gone. Poof. Vanished.
(If you don't think that there are creeps in the d.i.y. music scene who'd pull something like this, I hate to burst your bubble but there are such jerks lurking around)
