
An excerpt from the AVN article regarding this matter:
“‘Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif, San Jose) added amendments about pornography and referred to the CEO of Pink Visual (Alison Vivas) as someone she’d like to call in as an expert witness to help craft some of the SOPA regulations on pornography,” wrote Blue. “Pink Visual is known for being at the forefront of pornography and technology, with the first cloud storage for porn, the first iPad porn app, an API and more.”
No argument about Pink Visual’s role as an innovator, but as far as Lofgren mentioning Vivas as a possible expert witness, it never happened, and neither did she offer an amendment on pornography. That singular task was undertaken by Rep. Jared Polis (D-Colo., pictured), whose amendment, had it not been voted down, would have exempted copyright-infringing porn sites from being targeted for takedown by the Attorney General.
The amendment language read, “CERTAIN ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS PROHIBITED IN THE CASE OF OBSCENE OR PORNOGRAPHIC WORKS—The Attorney General shall bring no action, and no public resources shall be expended under this section, for the purpose of protecting any intellectual property right pertaining to a work whose contents are pornographic or obscene in nature.’”
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Now, let’s put this into layman’s terms…
Representative Zoe Lofgren, Chair of the 34 Member California Democratic Congressional Delegation, and Representative Jared Polis, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Colorado’s 2nd district, apparently believe that Adult Industry media should not be helped by SOPA if passed, because the majority of pirated materials online are pornographic. Representative Polis states that his amendment does not infringe on the rights of pornographers, but instead intends to make sure the Attorney General’s Office is not using tax payers’ money to focus on benefiting the Adult Industry.
The article above is slightly unclear on whether Rep. Lofgren opposed Rep. Polis’ amendment or not, but her live response shows a more solid opinion. She states, “I think not supporting this amendment is going to be kind of hard to explain back home…” Considering every legal pornographic company within the United States also pays taxes along with those business Rep. Polis calls “legitimate”, it becomes hard to understand who’s tax dollars are the subject of this conversation.
Regardless, congress voted down this amendment. SOPA, if passed without further legislature intended to single out the Adult Industry, should be used to combat the piracy of Adult Industry media online.