Today
I will be educating you on PIPA and SOPA. First of all, PIPA stands for protect
IP act and SOPA stands for stop online piracy act. Piracy is the illegal
downloading, selling, or streaming of TV shows that have been created by other
people. PIPA and SOPA are two bills that have been stopped for now, but the
battle hasn’t been won yet.
page. Thousands
of other websites proceeded to do the same thing to raise awareness.SOPA
is an act where the government wants to be able to censor certain websites and
what you see on them. Many websites did not agree with what this right is doing.
Wikipedia and Google showed their discomfort by “blacking out” their
A
lot of people weren’t very happy because of how they were getting tricked. The
person that created the bill tried to trick Congress by wording it in a tricky
way. They used a lot of giant words that kind of went around in a loop. They
used that in a giant stack of paper in tiny print where they place in normal
print something that Congress would want to help. They basically tried to hide
it from the Congress.
Many
people at home also disagree with these bills because they could shut down
websites that they enjoy using such as YouTube. YouTube would be shut down
because many people post TV shows and series on there, which is illegal.
However, not everybody uses YouTube to watch TV episodes off of channels they
don’t have. Some people us YouTube to watch skits, gaming videos, or for
information on the modern world. There is nothing wrong with what these people
are doing so they think that just the videos or anything in this category
should be taken down. Which brings us to another controversial topic.
Another
of the things that this bill was going to take down is pirate bay. Pirate Bay
is a website that is based in Sweden and is a place where you can illegally
download movies, shows, music, and much more. One of the main places they steal
from was Hollywood. When Hollywood tried to protest the Pirate Bay they said
that it wasn’t illegal in Sweden. Which brings us to another controversial
topic.
Many
people like the fact that piracy should be stopped through projects like PIPA
and SOPA but they think it has too much power. They think that only the things
posted related to piracy should be shut down and not the whole entire websites.
Some people make a lot of money by making videos off of websites where you can
post videos such as YouTube. So the people that use it for their own hobbies or
for money think that this bill has too much power but agree with how they want
to stop the piracy that is going on. People also think that this is too
powerful because they want to be able to shut down it on the Internet from
everywhere in the world. Overall, this is a very controversial subject and
could go either.
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/still-not-clear-on-sopa-pipa-infographic-wsimple-explanations/39016/http://www.forbes.com/sites/larrymagid/2012/01/18/what-are-sopa-and-pipa-and-why-all-the-fuss/
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