How SOPA Can Affect Internet Marketers – Day 3 of Tutorial

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Tutorial Name: Internet Marketing, SOPA and You
(click on the Tutorial name to see all the days)

Tutorial Day: 3

Tutorial Day Goal: Understand how SOPA could affect you in the future

Helpful Resources:

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Before You Begin

Today is Day 3 in my tutorial about SOPA, Internet marketing and you…and for today, I want to walk you through just how SOPA could affect you in the future.

Let's say that you promote affiliate links on your site.

And let's say that one of those affiliate links contains a copyright image.

BAM! Not only cold that affiliate product be shut down from the Internet, but also your site as well (because you included a link to a product that violated the legislation).

So your site gets effectively blacklisted and disappears from the Internet with no due course for debating it.

Ick!

That's bad enough for your business, but now let's also take a peek at:

Step 1 – Take a look at your favorite marketing forums

What if someone spams a warez link to it?

Or links to copyright material?

BAM! Site goes byebye but more importantly…..

Your networking goes byebye too.

The Warrior Forum is down today in protest of SOPA, did you know that? Think now how many thousands of marketers are dead in the water. Right now. With no recourse possible.

Thought-provoking, aye?

Step 2 – Take a look at YouTube

Can you begin to imagine how many videos there contain copyright material?

So say goodbye to YouTube as well! To wit:

Visit Cheezburger now – you'll see what I mean.

And finally…

Step 3 – Take a look at your favorite communities

Love hanging out at parakeet communities?

Survivalist communities?
Rubiks Cube communities?
Minecraft communities?

What happens when an illicit link gets posted there?

Where's your networking and community fix then?

Hmmmmm?

In Closing

SOPA….bad news indeed.

For more information about what you can do, check out:

I hope this post has given you plenty of food for thought! Please do share and tweet this post at your favorite networking sites – the more who are aware of the issue, the better it will be for us all.

Grow strong,

Barbara LIng