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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.
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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.
SOPA- Stop online piracy actPIPA- Protect IP Act
on18th
January
“Thousands of People All Acrossthe globe showedtheir dissent against SOPA”
AND
Over 6000+ Websites signed up for blackout
including major websites Like…..………..
“GOOGLE”
“Wikipedia”
“WORDPRESS”
......and so on
& Also The Number of SOPA-PIPA
OPPONENTS increases
drastically in just one day as compared to supporters of sopa-pipa
PROS
CONS
OFSOPA-PIPA
PROS
Every website will be regulated according 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.
PROS
Copyright owners have the right to shut down any websites who replicate their particular contents, videos and many others.
CONSThe government will have a hardtime 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.
CONSPeople 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.
The promoters of the 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.
CONS
It Destroy Job
CONSNegative impact on
capitalIf SOPA became law people stop investing in web companies because knowing the fact thatwebsites can be shut down anytime byjust a single copyright complaint againstThem.
