I’ve been busy with so many activities in the past few months that my updates have landed on my other sites .. well, this one goes on all of them.
As you might have already heard, two pieces of copyright infringement legislation are pending both in the House of Representatives and in the US Senate – the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA). In a nutshell, both bills attempt to make it easier to shut off access to content that is alleged to be copyright infringing. This may not sound as a bad idea, but we believe that as drafted, SOPA and PIPA will give the US government unseen power to censor the information on the web for the whole world and we believe that if accepted and applied these laws have a strong potential to change the Internet for worse by taking away what we all love it for – the freedom of speech. In a recent development leadership in the House of Representatives has indicated that SOPA will not be coming up for a vote anytime soon which is a small victory itself for the whole Internet community. On the other hand however, PIPA, the Senate counterpart bill to SOPA, has 90% of the problems SOPA has and is very much alive, and very much a threat which is why we should keep voicing our strong opposition and do our best to stop the bill. To learn more about the bills check out the video from the link below
To learn more about the bills check out this video.
