Just wondering what you guys think about our two new bills trying to be passed down here in the states.
For those who don't know, SOPA or Stop Online Piracy Act, is simply a bill aimed to block sites, through DNS, of sites accused of offering downloads of copyrighted materials. It's mainly aimed for international sites in which our justice system has no jurisdiction over it since it's in another country. Basically blowing up the roads to prevent people from going to the site. Of course it's endorsed by the entertainment industry.
PIPA, or Protect Intellectual Property Act, is a similar bill but would allow the US government to fully take down a "rogue" website on foreign soil. Pretty much SOPA needs to be passed in order to make PIPA easier to pass.
Normally congress is on holiday leave right now, but they are taking a special vote/hearing on Wednesday, which is out of the norm. since they don't seem to do anything anyway.
Sucks because if this passes, maybe Canada will follow a similar way, France already has something and I believe Australia has a three strikes law against downloading. But it seems like these bills are trying to solve a problem through the wrong means. Censoring the Internet essentially breaks the concept of the Internet. Wikipedia is threatening a blackout to stop SOPA, and many tech companies are against the bill, but it seems like **this comment has been seized by the department of Homeland Security**
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/1...l-now-block-it