Pipa And Sopa

  This is all because of two pieces of legislation: the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House and its Senate companion bill, the Protect IP Act (PIPA). This was from This Google Link. They would be important to the average person because, if they wanted to look up YouTube for a DIY thing it might popup a website about dogs. Because they might think that YouTube doesn't need to be available for the public to watch YouTube videos. The PIPA and SOPA bills were intended to stop piracy on the Internet. They could be misused by the government taking over everything. If the government took over the entire Internet then, people wouldn’t be able to find anything that they are looking for. Some facts about PIPA and SOPA are… Media companies are always looking for new ways to fight piracy. They've tried suing individual users, getting Internet service providers to take action against subscribers, and working with the U.S. government to shut down domains based in the United States. But none of those actions can stop overseas websites such as The Pirate Bay and Mega Upload from infringing copyrights, or prevent Internet users from accessing those sites. Enter SOPA, in the U.S. House of Representatives, and PIPA, in the U.S. Senate. Both bills are aimed at foreign websites that infringe copyrighted material. The bills are commonly associated with media piracy, but may also apply to counterfeit consumer goods and medication.Originally, both bills provided two methods for fighting copyright infringement on foreign websites. In one method, the U.S. Department of Justice could seek court orders requiring Internet service providers to block the domain names of infringing sites. For example, Comcast could prevent its customers from accessing thepiratebay.org, although the underlying IP address would still be reachable. ThisISP-blocking provision was a major concern among Internet security experts, and both SOPA and PIPA have dropped it. All that is from this site. The bills are intended to strengthen protections against copyright infringement and intellectual property theft, but Internet advocates say they would stifle expression on the World Wide Web. In essence, the legislation has pitted content providers -- like the music and film industries -- against Silicon Valley. CBS Corporation is among the media and entertainment companies that support the legislation. That information is from This Site. This is all because of two pieces of legislation: the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House and its Senate companion bill, the Protect IP Act (PIPA). This was from This Google Link. They would be important to the average person because, if they wanted to look up YouTube for a DIY thing it might popup a website about dogs. Because they might think that YouTube doesn't need to be available for the public to watch YouTube videos. The PIPA and SOPA bills were intended to stop piracy on the Internet. They could be misused by the government taking over everything. If the government took over the entire Internet then, people wouldn’t be able to find anything that they are looking for. Some facts about PIPA and SOPA are… Media companies are always looking for new ways to fight piracy. They've tried suing individual users, getting Internet service providers to take action against subscribers, and working with the U.S. government to shut down domains based in the United States. But none of those actions can stop overseas websites such as The Pirate Bay and Mega Upload from infringing copyrights, or prevent Internet users from accessing those sites. Enter SOPA, in the U.S. House of Representatives, and PIPA, in the U.S. Senate. Both bills are aimed at foreign websites that infringe copyrighted material. The bills are commonly associated with media piracy, but may also apply to counterfeit consumer goods and medication.Originally, both bills provided two methods for fighting copyright infringement on foreign websites. In one method, the U.S. Department of Justice could seek court orders requiring Internet service providers to block the domain names of infringing sites. For example, Comcast could prevent its customers from accessing thepiratebay.org, although the underlying IP address would still be reachable. ThisISP-blocking provision was a major concern among Internet security experts, and both SOPA and PIPA have dropped it. All that is from this site. The bills are intended to strengthen protections against copyright infringement and intellectual property theft, but Internet advocates say they would stifle expression on the World Wide Web. In essence, the legislation has pitted content providers -- like the music and film industries -- against Silicon Valley. CBS Corporation is among the media and entertainment companies that support the legislation. This day in history thousands of websites, including Wikipedia, Reddit, Boing Boing, TheOatmeal (which gives the most amusing of all the protests, though slightly inappropriate for younger audiences),WordPress, Makezine, Mozilla, and the entire O’Reilly Media network went black (complete list of confirmed websites that are participating), their owners voluntarily taking the sites down specifically in protest of proposed legislation in the United States, SOPA and PIPA, but more generally in protest of the disturbing trend of internet censorship; this time some of the most drastic such legislation ironically coming from a government who is constantly criticizing other governments for doing just this.  Many other websites, most notably Google, are also taking part in the protest, not by taking their site(s) down, but by promoting awareness of an issue that previous to today has conspicuously stayed mostly out of the main stream media (whose owners almost unanimously support and are lobbying for SOPA and PIPA to pass). All this is from This Site. Nothing could be further from the truth. I got all this from This Site.