SOPA and PIPA? What’s the Commotion Here?

Piracy and copyright infringement ang kadalasang ponuproblema ng maraming media companies. They've tried suing individual users, getting Internet service providers to take action against subscribers, and working with the U.S. government to shut down domains based in the United States. But none of those actions can stop overseas websites such as The Pirate Bay and MegaUpload from infringing copyrights, or prevent Internet users from accessing those sites.

PIPA (http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/design/how-sopa-pipa-can-affect-you/)is an acronym for the Protect IP Act, and was first introduced to the U.S. Senate on May 12, 2011 by Senators Patrick Leahy, Orrin Hatch, Chuck Grassley. It is also good to take note that PIPA is a re-written legislation, the original being the failed to pass Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA) of 2010.

PIPA, if passed, will give  U.S. corporations and the government the right to seek affirmative legal action with any website that they see as enabling copyright infringement whether of  U.S. origin or not. Here is a breakdown of all that they will have the power to do.

•   Force U.S. internet providers to block access to websites deemed as enablers of copyright infringement
•  Seek legal action by suing search engines, blog sites, directories, or any site in general to have the black listed sites removed from their website
•  Will be able to force advertising services on infringing websites, and those supporting of them, to remove them from their advertising accounts
• ·         Companies will also have the power to sue any new websites that get started after this bill is passed, if they believe that they are not doing a good job of preventing infringement on your website

SOPA (http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/design/how-sopa-pipa-can-affect-you/)is an acronym for the Stop Online Piracy Act, and is a bill introduced to the U.S. House of Representatives by Represenative Lamar Smith on October 26, 2011. In similarity with PIPA, SOPA is a build on a previous legislation. This legislation being the PRO-IP Act of 2008.

SOPA, if passed, will work in conjunction with PIPA. As described by such entities as the Electronic Frontier Foundation, SOPA is nothing more so than the U.S. government and private corporations black list. Here is a breakdown of the power given to the government and private corporations.

• The U.S. Attorney General can now seek a court order that would force search engines, advertisers, DNS providers, servers, and payment processors from having any contact with allegedly infringing websites
• It will allow private corporations to create their own personal hit lists composed of websites they feel are breaking their copyright policies, ironically this doesn’t have any odd feelings of a legal mafia at all. These companies will be able to directly contact a website’s payment processors a notice to cut all off payment involvement with the targeted website. This payment processors and website of question will then have five days to act before it is simply taken down.
• Payment processors will have the power to cut off any website they work with, as long as they can provide a strong reason of why they believe this site is violating copyrights

 Both bills provided two methods for fighting copyright infringement on foreign websites. In one method, the U.S. Department of Justice could seek court orders requiring Internet service providers to block the domain names of infringing sites. For example, Comcast could prevent its customers from accessing thepiratebay.org, although the underlying IP address would still be reachable. This ISP-blocking provision was a major concern among Internet security experts, and both SOPA and PIPA have dropped it.

        The other tool would allow rights holders to seek court orders requiring payment providers, advertisers, and search engines to stop doing business with an infringing site. In other words, rights holders would be able to request that funding be cut off from an infringing site, and that search links to that site be removed. The site in question would have five days to appeal any action taken.

SOPA is the more extreme of the two. It defines a "foreign infringing site" as any site that is "committing or facilitating" copyright infringement, whereas PIPA is limited to sites with "no significant use other than" copyright infringement.

Sa madaling salita, these are two bills which were proposed by US arliament to attack on websites that have copyright content and goods. It sounds good, but anyone have noticed if this bills have passed than thousands of website owners which include such copyright content have been vanished completely with complete shutdown of their servers. Websites like Wikipedia & Google web services would have been attacked & stop indexing such sites and stop sending them traffic.

Originally, the majority of technology corporations that put their input into these bills, were in support of it. Companies like Apple, Intel, Corel, Dell, Microsoft, Adobe, and 23 other big name tech companies are supporters under the BSA(Business Software Alliance). However, there is still hope in the realm of big name support of tech giants. Two of the biggest in Mozilla and Google, have gone public with their issues with these bills and their reasons why they can no longer offer their support after further research was done.

Malaking effect magagawa nito una isipin niyo nalang may bayad na mga gagawen naten sa internet di ka na rin makakapag share ng kung ano ano from one site to another. Tapos kung mag download ka pa mag kakabayad na. Hirap naman ng ganun baka wala nang mag internet dahil dun. Kung ma-aaprove nga yan ang daming ma aapektohan lalo na ung mga business firms at  adik na user ng mga sites.

• If these bill were passed, Investors would required additional returns on investment.

•   If the government pass tough new rules allowing websites to be sued, the investors will not put their money in copy right content.
•  It could sneak war between companies.
• There would be no Facebook, Twitter, YouTube. Mediafire, Drop box, Soundcloud etc that can be targeted as a place where online copyright could take place. Think about the internet without these sites?.
•  Companies could try to peep out each other’s sites by posting illegal content in their comments and on their forums.
• Anti-abortion activists may write a copyright-violating comment on blog to shutdown the site.
• By DNS filtering the sites will open more security risks & will slow down the systems. (For example, Mozilla, like the majority of the tech world, believes that by using DNS filtering this will open up more security risks and slow down the system’s up and coming extension DNSSEC.)
•  Due to lack of resources It is very difficult to publish articles on its own.

•  If this bills are passed than, Blogs that share Videos, Movie clips, Wallpapers, Ebook etc will be seriously affected, if they are linked to Megashare, Megaupload or Torrent.
•  Bloggers can be sued and their career in blogging can be destroyed.
• Even if the attribution is properly executed the blogs & website could be shutdown for sharing copyright content

(http://www.ravisaive.in/2012/01/impact-of-sopa-and-pipa-on-bloggers.html)

 Hindi ako sang-ayon sa SOPA at PIPA tulad ng nakararami.  Namention ko naman above ang reasons why. Tsaka ang 100% free from piracy is not that possible. Malawak ang web at madaming imba men ang kayang lumusot sa usaping intellectual property.

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