Why are people opposed to SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act?
What specific provisions in the bill have you bothered? I’m curious to find out more about this, because I haven’t followed the debate well enough. While I like the idea of being able to stream or download anything for free if you really need it– or just as a way of life, depending on who you are– it seems morally wrong. Why isn’t SOPA viewed as a protection of digital property in the same way that anti-theft representatives or door scanners are in a department store? This isn’t intended to cause any controversy, I’m just trying to educate myself. From a moral standpoint, it seems that piracy has gone light-years too far, but I don’t want the government policing every aspect of the internet, either.
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Plainly and simply because they’re not intelligent enough to realise that businesses have to be profitable to pay wages and invest in new products. All the fools see is getting something cheap or for free, they don’t give a damn about anyone else involved. Just human parasites really, aren’t they?
Let’s have a look at this another way – you invent or design something, invest millions in trying to bring it to market, take it to an exhibition and then along comes some little nerd from the far east where they don’t recognise copright laws and all that you have invested in is photo’d from every angle and a few days later is available for shipment. I was a member of ACID when i worked, that’s
Anti Copywriting In Design. You have no idea of how awful it is to see someones life work being copied and reproduced in cheap tacky material etc just so some Chinese factory owner can make a fortune!
This is no different to SOPA – their inventors/designers/creators too are being robbed blind by piracy, so how is that fair?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsTRkd8RnTI
*EDIT* Helen didn’t really define much about SOPA.
SOPA is going to prohibit the trafficking of counterfeited goods and copyrighted intellectual property.
What this means is that easily manipulated lemmings like Helen will not be able to post info on the internet or even simple music if its been copyrighted. That means no more free music at youtube. That means easier deletion of a controversial video at youtube, etc.
Once the bill is active, it will be almost impossible for anyone to post any kind of perceivable controversial material on the internet because its going to be circumvented by SOPA.
Please remember that we have a benevolent government that is ran by tyrants.
Quite simply, the bill gives the US government the ability to block any website it was told is violating some company’s copyright.
Note that there is no due process here. Someone can make an accusation and *bang* no more Yahoo. No more facebook. No. More. Internet. The decision is final, and irrevocable. There is no appeal process. Ford could accuse Toyota.com of violating copyright and *bang* no more Toyota.com. Say, that sounds pretty good, right? Survival of the fittest and all that? Don’t like someone? Just accuse him of copyright infringement and he’ll disappear.
Yes, it literally means the US government is now going to be able to decide what you CAN and CANNOT view on the internet – in clear violation of the 1st amendment! This bill should have NEVER been seriously considered for this very fact!
If passed as law, it will make it far too risky for ANY company to be on the internet, at least within the US. The result will be that the US internet and the entire tech industry as we know it will die and move to other countries, taking millions of high paying jobs with it (including mine and the other ~30 million people in the Silicon Valley!)
And do you know what? SOPA doesn’t actually do anything to stop piracy! Not a thing! Yeah, it might shut down a few US sites, so what? What about the rest of the internet outside the US? Going to call up Canada and demand they shut down their servers? And since when do you use websites for piracy? What about direct P2P stuff? Are you going to say “Ah-ha! Someone on AT&T is illegally sharing a Lady Gaga song! Shut down AT&T!” And the guys on the street corners selling movies that aren’t even in theaters yet for $2 each are unaffected. Good job!
because it allows a business to shut down a website without any cause… ( google/FB/twitter/youtube). this will end free internet along with IP act.
this is another attack on the constituiton
The trust level is way down, as far as government is concerned. No matter how helpful or nice something the government does is made to sound, some simply do not trust the motives behind the law. Where they get such ideas? Any bodies guess.
We need a translator: Fair Trade Act = ship jobs overseas
Reproductive Rights = abortion and birth control
Food Safety Act = corporate take over of food supply (can’t grow or sell your own vegetables)
Homeland Security = make country safe from muslim backlash and islamophobia
Health Care Bill = takeover large sector of economy by socialist government.
Lots more come to mind but maybe this will help?
Some are very strange: NASA….= outreach to muslims to make them feel better about their science contributions? Say what?
Because its an instantenous block on items without due process, even moi in his old adage sees this as a threat to the justice systems.