SOPA/PIPA? Matatalo ba ang piracy?

          The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA) are two bills that sound like they have a mildly positive aim but, in reality, have serious potential to negatively change the internet as we know it. While the Obama administration has come out against SOPA, effectively shelving it indefinitely, the very similar PIPA bill is still alive and well. Both SOPA and PIPA put power in the hands of the entertainment industry to censor sites that allegedly "engage in, enable or facilitate" copyright infringement. This language is vague enough to target sites you use every day, like Facebook and Google, making these bills a serious problem. Here's what you need to know about the bills and what you can do about them. The idea behind these bills sounds reasonable. They came about in order to try and snuff out piracy online, as the entertainment industry is obviously not excited that many people are downloading their products without payment or permission. The issue is, however, that it doesn't really matter whether you're in support of piracy, against it, or just don't care. The methods are ineffective. Here's what they are and why they're problematic. SOPA and PIPA were initially designed to do two things. The first was to make it possible for companies to block the domain names of web sites that are simply capable of, or seem to encourage copyright infringement. This would have been bad for everyone because such a measure doesn't actually prevent piracy. The reason that blocking a domain name isn't effective is because any blocked site can still be accessed via its numeric IP address. For example, if your favorite website were blocked, you could still find it by visiting a number-based address. In fact, before the bills were even supposed to come to a vote, tools were created to automatically route domain names to their IP addresses to completely render this measure of SOPA and PIPA useless. As a result, the IP-blocking provisions have been removed from both bills.

         

          From the word stop in SOPA means that we must stop the copying of files from net na kinopya lang din sa ibang site. Parang sa Pilipinas na kapag ngbebenta ka ng pirated na dvd/cd eh bawal yun at lumalabag ka daw sa copyright infringement(nangyayari ito kapag kumopya ang isang tao ng files from another copyrighted work na wala naming permission). Ang PIPA naman ay may kakayahan na iblock ang mga infringing domain names, pati yung mga nakalink na mga illegal sites like porn sites, etc. Isa pa ang protect IP ay may kakayahan na I cut ang funds ng mga infringing websites.

          

          Ako, alam ko sa sarili ko na nalalabag ko ang SOPA/PIPA pero for a good cause naman or hindi nakakasama sa ibang tao. Pero ang hirap talagang mamili kung saan ka papanig between the two eh. Yung isa nalalabag mo pero kailangang mo naman or ang law na anjan lang para protekatahan tayo. Kasi nga iniisip lang nila ang mga biktima nito at ang kadalasang nabibiktima eh ang mga bata. Tsaka kapag naipasa ito sigurado akong maraming facebook users ang maapektuhan. HINDI AKO MAKAPAMILI!!!!!!GGGRRRRR!!!!

          

          Pero sa tingin ko lang hindi magwowork ang SOPA/PIPA na ito. Yung censorship regulations na nkasulat sa bills na ito eh hindi mashashutdown ang pirate sites. Babaguhin lang nila ang mga address nila at itutuloy pa rin ang mga kawalangyaan nila…..wew…

June Rey  A. Cortez

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