This article goes over new online piracy laws. Stop
Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is set up in the United States and warns Canadians that
they will soon have to follow under this new law. In a sense it is a good forefront
on protecting intellectual property the problem is that it also protects and
restricts online sharing of files. One example of an online source that will be
affect is Wikipedia. The site went on an ‘all black’ theme to help protest this
new law. “Wikipedia's English-language front page went dark last week for 24
hours in protest over the U.S. SOPA and PIPA anti-piracy laws.”(Financial Post,
1). This law may not be actually put into society some researcher say as well.
For this law to go into society major mainstream online sites would go down
including YouTube and SoundCloud, along with other social media sites. In my
opinion this is not the best way to terminate online piracy, they are moving to
fast as people will not be able to adjust to all these restrictions right away.
Would you protest against this law? I know I would they are taking away our
rights to be creative even if it is online sharing that we are getting our
ideas from.
http://business.financialpost.com/2012/01/24/sopa-like-laws-could-be-coming-to-canada-expert-warns/
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