Many websites and organizations are now protesting against the newly proposed bills SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect Intellectual Property Act) introduced to the United States House of Representatives by Lamar S. Smith Chairman of House Judiciary Committee on October 26, 2011. Thousands of Major Websites like Wikipedia, Reddit and Natural News blacked out their pages for a 24 hour protest period against the eventual passing of these two bills into law by the American congress.
If passed these two bills allow the government of the United States to block any website, which falls outside of the Stop Online Piracy Act and PROTECT IP Act boundaries. These Acts are unjustified, flawed and destructive to the nature of the Internet and freedom of speech.
3. There are two bills, SOPA in the house of Representatives and
PIPA in the Senate. Both are Designed to tackle the problem of
Foreign-Based Websites that sell Pirated Movies, and Music as
well as physical goods.
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piracyProtect IP
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13. PRO
S be regulated according
Every website will
to the regulations imposed by the
government. Scams and other fraudulent
activities will be prevented.
There will be an increase in the revenue of
the businesses since customers will be
obliged to purchase from the original
source.
14. PRO
Shave the right to shut
Copyright owners
down any websites who replicate their
particular contents, videos and many
others.
15. CONS
The government will have a
hard
time implementing such act
as it
involves the World Wide
Web
which has billions of files to
check and regulate.
It will cost them a big
amount
of money because they have
to
make massive campaigns
worldwide.
16. CONS
People will be required to shell out a big
amount of money whenever they want to
download something like music or video
Millions of websites will be removed from
the World Wide Web and it will cause a lot
of destruction in the online world.
17. CONS
The promoters of the
It Destroy Job SOPA-PIPA are
pretending that it would
save jobs and help the
economy, but in reality
it would
actually destroy jobs
and hurt the economy.
because people starting
ignoring job offers by
Web Companies which
don’t have any future.
18. CONS
Negative impact on
capital
If SOPA became law people stop investing in web
companies because knowing the fact that
websites can be shut down anytime by
just a single copyright complaint against
Them.