CANCELED: Night with a Futurist - SOPA: The Future of Online Privacy: How will this affect you? February 6, 2012

The highly controversial Stop Online Piracy Act has been raising hackles across the country and causing the tech world to cast a wary eye on the happenings in the government since its introduction last fall. In typical Orwellian fashion, what sounds like something that should be for helping to curb the problem of online piracy would actually define an entirely new one and threaten the future of sites with user based input like FLICKR and YouTube among hundreds if not thousands of others.

While the recording industry along with movie and television studios are the driving forces and logical benefactors behind these bills, the far reaching effects of their passage has still yet to be fully understood. SOPA would also expand the ability of the Justice Department to go after so called "rogue" Web sites overseas that traffic in fake goods like counterfeit purses or prescription drugs.

Critics are concerned that the bill is too far-reaching and broad, and could potentially harm Web sites that don't actually contain infringing content or were acting in good faith.

Join us as we discuss:

Who the key players are in this debate
Who stands to gain the most
Who will lose big time
How you can make your voice heard
Why it won’t actually stop online piracy
How passage of this bill will directly affect you

EVENT: Night with a Futurist
DATE: February 6, 2012 - Monday
TIME: 6:30pm-9:00pm
WEBSITE: http://www.davinciinstitute.com/events/584/night-with-a-futurist-monday-february--6-2012

LOCATION: DaVinci Institute, 511 E. South Boulder Road Louisville, CO 80027

COST: $20, Members: Free, SuperMembers: Free

PHONE: 303-666-4133

TOPIC: SOPA: The Future of Online Privacy: How will this affect you?

Official Website: http://www.davinciinstitute.com/events/584/night-with-a-futurist-monday-february--6-2012