How SOPA/PIPA Affects You

This is a great summary of how the new Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA) can affect you and online innovation. Sponsored by Senator Patrick Leahy and others, the legislation does not bode well for free speech.

The United States government has been facing an intense amount of pressure, mostly from the entertainment and computer software publishing companies for years to find some method of stopping the online piracy that is allowing people to own copies of their merchandise for free. This is of course understandable, nobody wants to see something they worked hard on to create something of quality be disrespected by people gaining access to it for free.

However, what the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate have planned for their respective bills is not a way of just putting a halt on online piracy. Tech giants such as Mozilla and Google who once supported these bills, now are on the offensive in trying to ensure they never get passed. Before going any further into how this affects the everyday internet users, let’s first get a good understanding about both bills... Read more.

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