SOPA – the Stop Online Piracy Act – Is It Really Dangerous?

SOPA - Stop Online Piracy Act

SOPA stands for Stop Online Piracy Act.

Main objective of this bill is to completely revamp the Internet in the USA full of information that can be deemed as fake or untrue and copyrighted materials. In so doing, government forces the Internet user (individuals and businesses) to post only the truth and that their information has to be original not copied from someone else's work.

Under this bill, almost every websites hosted in the United States will be affected in some shape or form. That includes websites like FaceBook, MySpace, Amazon, Ebay, personal blogs, etc. The list may never end. If this bill is passed, individuals or businesses can't go on the internet and put up a webpage with fake or copyrighted materials.

If that is true, of the billions of websites on the internet good 80% of them will be affected and a lot of them will be shutdown if they don't abide by this new rule.

What bothers me the most about this bill is that it will make everything and anything on the Internet look like a copyrighted material. Information is supposed to be free and should not belong to any one particular institution or individuals like (Professors).

I have no doubt that this whole idea for this bill was brought up by the retailers and authors who write for a living just like MIAA - Music Industry Association of America and RIAA - Recording Industry Association of America against online music downloaders. Today, who is buying newspapers or magazines or text books on their own unless they are attending colleges or grade schools. I, personally, don't buy books or magazines but go to local library for my reading materials and that is only if I can't find what I am looking for on the Internet. The Internet has become so big and so quick that everything and anything can be found on it. Sometimes it is not readily up on the computer screen but with little time and effort one can find what they are looking. Probably with this bill, retailers and authors hope and want to make sure people get out and go shopping for books and reading materials like they use to and force the Internet users to be truthful and create their own information or materials that they are posting online.

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