Why stop SOPA?
This bill is being rushed rather than being more carefully thought through. By sharing a picture or a small clip of copyrighted material without permission, may end you in Jail.
The strategies
In the bill discusses vast amount of strategies to stop 'Online Priacy'. Two of the nasty ones here:
DNS blocking tactics to repeated offenders, meaning you can stop countries from visiting a website for one.
Cut off funds to infringing websites and this means youtube.com, reddit.com, and most possibly facebook.com.
Internet Crippled
We also use various websites to:
- Express ourselves, freedom of speech
- Socialize with people, family and friends
- organize clubs and get together
- Share works and new media that we freely share
- Even see what is happening around the world
Likely Targets
Such websites as wikipedia, youtube, and reddit, will most likely be some of the tragets. They have cash, to fight most of the trouble yet the content will be more empty.
Small start up companies will be hurt too, as people share copyrighted material repeatly on new startup services, hit and probably struggle to stay alive as they have smaller budget.
This SOPA bill could cripple the Internet to the extreme.
What can you do?
There are a few ways to get action going.
Have a read of the comments about the bill
http://keepthewebopen.com/sopa
Sign the Petition (Sign if you live outside)
https://secure.avaaz.org/en/save_the_internet/
http://americancensorship.org/modal/state-dept-petition/index.html
Share this Information
Write and share your views with your Internet followers, friends and family. Share the links to the videos, and online petitions.
Further Reading
http://www.reddit.com/r/SOPA/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act
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