Representative Adams,

I am writing to express my firm opposition to HR II otherwise known as SOPA (the Stop Online Piracy Act). I have watched with a great deal of interest, as companies who comprise the majority of the intellectual property holders in this country attempt to protect their Seventeenth Century business model through legislation and intimidation, rather than adapting and evolving. SOPA is no different.

If passed, SOPA would erect restrictions on well established freedoms and create unreasonable criminal standards, well beyond those that any free society should have to endure. This bill actually allows IP holders to act as a non-governmental and unregulated police force whose sole purpose would be to shutdown and prosecute alleged offenders without oversight or recourse.

In addition; I have learned that Congress has decided to hold hearings for this monumental change without the benefit of alternative views. This is unconscionable and would, if SOPA should pass, be held as yet another example of Congress' legislating in a vacuum without regard to freedom or to the views and opinions of its constituents.

Ms. Adams, please allow the full story to be presented and I urge you to oppose the passage of HR II, SOPA.

Yours Truly,


Jimmersd