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SOPA? PIPA? Are These More Weird Royal Family Members?

PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo.


SOPA is the Stop Online Piracy Act

PIPA is the Protect IP Act

Both have good intentions but are extremely dangerous to Internet Freedom and On-Line innovation and business.  If these bills are passed any company can accuse a Website of copyright infringenment on "a good faith belief" and have them shut down without due process.  It would allow the U.S. Government to restrict Websites much the same way the governmnets of China, Iran, and Syria do. 

The U.S. sets the standard when it comes to the Internet.  The U.S. is also hurting for jobs the last time I checked the news online.  This would also limit start ups and innovation.  

My personal paranoid opinion is the U.S. Government has witnessed the part the Internet and Social Media has played in the revolutions in Egypt, Tunisia, Syria, and the failed attempt in Iran, and are looking to be pro-active in having a way to shut everything down when we finally get fed up with the two party succubus.  The less information we have and exchange the better, right?

There are more focused ways to fight on-line Piracy.  The Open Act and The Digital Millenium Copyright Act.  Both are more concentrated efforts to fight copyright infringement.

Please let your Representatives know how you feel.  Check out these resources.

Americancensorship.org

The Wikimedia SOPA Blackout Page

How SOPA/PIPA Will Effect Sports Fans

Google Petition to fight SOPA/PIPA

 



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01/18/2012 9:48AM
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