SOPA and PIPA

       People are against the SOPA and PIPA thing, but, us internet users do understand what does SOPA and PIPA means ?

       According to this article about SOPA and PIPA http://lifehacker.com/5860205/all-about-sopa-the-bill-thats-going-to-cripple-your-internet SOPA means Stop Online Piracy Act and PIPA means Protect IP Act, IP means Internet Protocol.Sound Positive isn't it ?

It may sound positive, but on some livelihood who have invested on the internet, this may sound or literally negative to them.

On the Link above, there is a video about how will PIPA and SOPA affect us, affect the whole U.S.A, affect the whole entertainment industry and our internet life.

      They actually relate SOPA nad PIPA to music industry because the U.S government reason why they want to pass SOPA Act is to stop piracy. As we all know, we can easily download songs or music without the studio company's knowledge. So, they loss income, because we actually uploaded it and we do not buy it with our own money literally. U.S government believes that when we just upload it through the internet, the loss of the entertainment industry is also a lost to their economy, which is, i believe is wrong, look at what the internet help the U.S economy. It's far more better than the entertainment industry as to the link above.


       There are some petition against SOPA/PIPA in this Link http://sopastrike.com/strike you just need to sign up and you are one of the petitioners of the Anti-SOPA and PIPA. This weblink said that it is the largest online protest in history, i haven't tried signing up in this protest and i don't know what will happen if i will.


    Some sites like wikipedia.com have shown their protest in SOPA and PIPA, they blocked their website for a day, as far as i can remember, i was surfing, need to do my assignment and i have seen wikipedia temporarily blocked their page, with a phrase saying that " Imagine a World Without Free Knowledge " and i was thinking about that until now.





This is the way of google.com of protesting. They covered their name and  at the latter part it tells " Please don't censor the web " and i was just thinking if these kinds of website will be block, where do wet get now information?

     

    Government said that Sopa Act will make the internet more safe. yeah, it is more safe, but it also can make internet less reliable.


 " ... Ordinary users could go to jail for five years for posting any copyrighted work- even just singing a pop song " - lifehacker.com