SOPA and PIPA
Media companies are always looking for new ways to fight piracy. They've tried suing individual users, getting Internet service providers to take action against subscribers, and working with the U.S. government to shut down domains based in the United States. But none of those actions can stop overseas websites such as The Pirate Bay and Mega Upload from infringing copyrights, or prevent Internet users from accessing those sites.
The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is a United States bill introduced by U.S. Representative Lamar S. Smith (R-TX) to expand the ability of U.S. law enforcement to fight online trafficking in copyrighted intellectual property and counterfeit goods. Provisions include the requesting of court orders to bar advertising networks and payment facilities from conducting business with infringing websites, and search engines from linking to the sites, and court orders requiring Internet service providers to block access to the sites. The law would expand existing criminal laws to include unauthorized streaming of copyrighted content, imposing a maximum penalty of five years in prison. A similar bill in the U.S. Senate is titled the PROTECT Intellectual Property Act (PIPA). Both bills are aimed at foreign websites that infringe copyrighted material. The bills are commonly associated with media piracy, but may also apply to counterfeit consumer goods and medication.
Although the bills are similar, SOPA is the more extreme of the two. It defines a "foreign infringing site" as any site that is "committing or facilitating" copyright infringement, whereas PIPA is limited to sites with "no significant use other than" copyright infringement.
Some people and search engines like Mozilla are against this bill; other say’s that SOPA and PIPA were both draconian bills. Most people downloading music or movies have a somewhat decent sense of the technology they use and could work around the proposed DNS blocking with ease. Thus, it wouldn't have stopped the piracy. All that would have been left was the government and individuals being able to block sites for the common folk. And I admit that I’m one of those using sites to download music, videos, movies and even applications for free. Yes, it is illegal pero hindi ba ang mga naglalagay ng mga music, videos, movies or applications sa mga file sharing sites ee still nabili pa din ng mga licensed application or mga original copy or disc ng mga music or videos? All they did is share it to folks like us for free via internet. On the contrary, it’s still simply not fair to Artists who spend countless months and even thousands or even millions trying to produce music and movies for the masses that are not being rewarded by those hard efforts.
Sa tingin ko this bill will not stop the piracy 100%, madami kasing against dito kahit ang mga major websites not favor sa SOPA, PIPA. Sabi nga ni Brad Burnham, managing partner at the venture capital fund Union Square Ventures "SOPA and PIPA, takes the risk of frivolous litigation... to the entire Internet." and part nadin kasi talaga ng pag gamit ng internet ang pagdownload ng kung ano-ano for free.
Links:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act
- http://www.pcworld.com/article/248298/sopa_and_pipa_just_the_facts.html
- http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57360665-503544/sopa-pipa-what-you-need-to-know/
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