Online piracy and copyrights law are hot issues all over the world but more so in the United States.
In fact, there are already two proposed bills in Congress aiming to strengthen copyright laws with internet buzz words SOPA and PIPA. SOPA stands for Stop Online Piracy Act and PIPA means Protect Intellectual Property Act. These two laws are lobbied by powerful supporters of the present administration composing of lawmakers and known personalities from business and movie and music industries.
Since passage of SOPA and PIPA may alter how netizens access and utilize the internet, many social media network users expressed their sentiments, frustration in the site. Powerful and known website, Wikipedia, urged its supporters and users to boycott SOPA and PIPA and manifested its protest by blocking out their site for one whole day or twenty four (24) hours last Wednesday. About 7,000 websites also joined the protest against the anti-piracy and copyright bills.
One of the fears for the passage of SOPA and PIPA is the jail time of three (3) to four (4) years for any infringement of piracy. The biggest fear however is censorship of online contents which is at present, self-regulated.
According to Google, about 4.5 million internet users signed the online petition to Congress against the hated legislation.
As an online fanatic, what is your stand on this issue?
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