Pipa and Sopa

                                    PIPA & SOPA

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Pipa and sopa are bills that the government wanted to pass and probably still want to. The Internet is one of the few institutions of the modern world that is truly global. Every day, billions of people of all genders, religions, race, and language connect to the same worldwide network of servers, personal computers, and mobile devices for uses that span the gamut from education and communication to entertainment and commerce Unfortunately, the extreme flexibility of the Internet also allows it to be used for the unauthorized distribution and theft of copyrighted content. Referred to as Internet “piracy,” this practice is becoming increasingly harmful to the artists and content providers that create and distribute most of the digital media in existence today. In response, new legislation like the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act has been introduced in the United States to help combat piracy on the Internet. While these bills are well-intentioned, they will have massive, unintended consequences that will have global implications and do far more harm to the internet than good. SOPA and PIPA must not be allowed to pass, and all those concerned about the future of the Web must take action immediately to safeguard something that is so crucially important to the functioning of the modern world.

I completely agree with this paragraph and and think it is true and that Pipa and Sopa should never happen because it is horrible.

The end goal of both bills is noble and well-intentioned: to stop online piracy and protect intellectual property on the Internet. As the Internet develops and proliferating technology allows the distribution of more and more media through the Web, piracy is becoming an increasingly huge problem. According to a study authored by Stephen Siwek of the Institute for Policy Innovation, the effects of Internet piracy include $12.5 billion dollars in annual losses to the U.S. economy, seventy thousand lost jobs, and two billion dollars in lost American wages. Proponents of SOPA and PIPA argue that enacting the legislation will put a significant dent in these numbers. Although there are already tools to combat online piracy such as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and the PRO-IP Act, neither provides provisions to protect against piracy-encouraging websites that are located outside of the United States and thus untouchable by current copyright law, according to a video prepared by the internet-activism non-profit, Fight for the Future. SOPA and PIPA would allow United States companies to take action by preventing U.S. consumers from accessing these rouge foreign sites and by cutting off all revenue. The proposed legislation would greatly help suffering content industries, and as a result, there are many influential companies and organizations that support the legislation. Hundreds of supporters are listed on the House Judiciary Committee’s list of official supporters that includes names such as ABC, CBS, Comcast/NBC Universal, Disney, the Entertainment Software Association, and almost all major record labels.  

This is why I think that this a bad idea and that this should never happen.                           




I got some information from http://erikswan.com/blog/view/argumentsagainst-sopa-and-pipa, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h2dF-IsH0I. That is my argument about Pipa & Sopa.