SOPA has the right intention, but I personally believe it is going about it the wrong way.Under SOPA, copyright holders would be able to report piracy websites to law enforcement officials to have the website shut down. A judge would be able to order search engines to block the sites, and websites could even be punished for hosting the illegal content. This is causing Internet companies to worry that they could be held accountable for the actions of their users.
Those with the most to lose (obviously the music and movie industries) are backing the bill, but critics fear supporters don't understand the repercussions. They believe SOPA would bring down the Internet as we know it, and hundreds of sites have adopted "Stop Censorship" logos. Even though they support the objectives of SOPA, Fortune 500 tech companies are asking Congress to consider another way to terminate piracy websites.
Hyun has, with this post, brilliantly formulated what appears to be the common opinion, and what definitely is mine. =)Torrenting is bad, and I am against it too, but I do not believe that SOPA is the answer to this problem. If the governments of the world really want to stop Piracy, they need to have an international team working to find website torrents, and then to shut down the INDIVIDUALS whom choose to upload copyrighted content and slap those people with hefty fines in order to stop people from resuming these illegal activities. It is not necessarily the fault of the people running these websites, just a select few of the users.
If SOPA is introduced, it may cause a significant decrease in the amount of information readily available on the internet, which would stagger the 'information age' - it wouldn't stop or revert it, but it would leave significant damage.
SOPA has the right intention, but I personally believe it is going about it the wrong way.Under SOPA, copyright holders would be able to report piracy websites to law enforcement officials to have the website shut down. A judge would be able to order search engines to block the sites, and websites could even be punished for hosting the illegal content. This is causing Internet companies to worry that they could be held accountable for the actions of their users.
Those with the most to lose (obviously the music and movie industries) are backing the bill, but critics fear supporters don't understand the repercussions. They believe SOPA would bring down the Internet as we know it, and hundreds of sites have adopted "Stop Censorship" logos. Even though they support the objectives of SOPA, Fortune 500 tech companies are asking Congress to consider another way to terminate piracy websites.
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