What is SOPA and how does it work? The Stop Online Piracy Act explained
Nilay Patel hits it hard.
SOPA and PIPA are the effective equivalent of blowing up every road, bridge, and tunnel in New York to keep people from getting to one bootleg stand in Union Square — but leaving the stand itself alone.
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… at its simplest level, SOPA is a kneejerk reaction to the fundamental nature of the internet, which was explicitly designed to ignore outmoded and inconvenient concepts like the continuing existence of the United States. Because US copyright holders generally can’t drag a foreign web site into US courts to get them to stop stealing and distributing their work, SOPA allows them to go after the ISPs, ad networks, and payment processors that are in the United States. It is a law borne of the blind logic of revenge: the movie studios can’t punish the real pirates, so they are attacking the network instead.
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Great summery of an important issue.
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Just basically think it as this, imaging if you internet was controlled more. where the sites we go to today, may not...
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If you don’t know what this is, STOP AND READ ABOUT IT. This is terrible.
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For all the people who haven’t done their research. Or live under a rock; it’s your choice to be informed.
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