In the U.S. – SOPA(Stop Online Piracy Act), aka H.R. 3261 is a bill right now in the House sponsored by R-TX Lamar Smith. It’s not just any bill though, a bill that could allow the USDOJ, RIAA, MPAA and anyone else who market for the entertainment industry to effectively censor the internet to suit their needs.
SOPA appeared to help the entertainment sector fight copyright infringement that charge nearly 200 billion dollars 12 months for entertainment companies. SOPA “Will create new causes of action against numerous internet sites for facilitating copyright laws or trademark infringement. ” (The Daily Animal: Internet Anti-Piracy Bill Would Cool off Free Expression) While this doesn’t sound that bad, as it would start to shield copyright holders more from his or her counterparts that pirate their operate, the bill takes a dubious step further.
SOPA allows copyright holders along with companies to actively pursue the pack up of a website without any defense through the site in question. This means that in a new matter of hours, a copyright that has been infringed upon by way of a user on a particular website might cause the copyright holders to act in a very fashion not usually used in politics in the us of America. If SOPA is passed, copyright holders could act inside following fashion: The holder complains to your department of justice, second the prosecutors go to your judge, and thirdly the judge finalizes the action plus the site is taken down.
Not during a single step on this very quick process is the web page being accused allowed to experience a say in the matter. This means that in a matter of hours following copyright holders discover their material with a website, the site can be removed without any room for debate for the site’s behalf. The United States Legal system have been an adversarial system for quite a lot of time. This means that one side gets its say inside matter, and then the other side gets their say inside matter, make their case, present evidence, and so on and consequently forth. But in the case of SOPA plus the actions copyright holders can get, they take an ex parte Course of action.
This means that a decision might be made by one judge with no requiring both parties that are going to complete the dispute to be found. This means that the judge gets biased information. The copyright holders could be both exaggerating information that creates the site look bad along with withholding information that works simply the site.
Agree or Not?
February 7th, 2012 at 12:54 am
The “win” that the internet had against sopa is one of the greatest things i have seen in terms of people coming together in my lifetime. In 200 years time they will teach about the day the internet went on strike or “blacked out” in history classes, thats how important it was!
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February 12th, 2012 at 12:05 am
You are so right in saying this, I think that the people who joined in and blacked out their sites should be proud of themselves, however, there are new attempts to push through ever so similar acts and laws. There are 2 in the works at the moment and you know that they wont stop trying, they are going to try and wear us down!
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February 20th, 2012 at 11:17 am
SOPA is bad and it came to suck the internet. I am really disappointed with this SOPA and PIPA act
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February 23rd, 2012 at 4:38 am
SOPA and ACTA are BAD.
Its not about the pirates anymore, its about censoring what the public can watch/see. Its the worst kind of propaganda (the equivalent? of Hitlers book burnings).
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March 6th, 2012 at 10:03 am
I totally disagree with this stupid bill which on my point of view…only aims to limit our internet freedom and give privileged to only FEW sector in the industry to benefit form this like the entertainment industry. ACTA is worst than SOPA, I think the debate is not yet over in some countries like in Europe. I hope this issue ends for I’m really worried to lose my job.