SOPA: Silicon Valley vs. Hollywood in fight against online piracy act

http://www.nma.tv/sopa-silicon-valley-hollywood-fight-online-piracy-act/
The entertainment industry has long lobbied congress for tougher laws on piracy. It seems H.R. 3261, the Stop Online Piracy Act or SOPA was going to deliver the toughest penalties yet. Introduced by Texas congressman Lamar Smith, SOPA gives the government the authority to block whole websites for copyright infringement, rather than the existing system of take-down notices. This puts social websites such as Facebook, Twitter and Youtube in particular danger as it would be all but impossible to monitor all of their users.

For a while, it seemed like SOPA was destined for easy passage in congress. But the bill's backers did not count on a populist campaign rising in opposition to SOPA. Tech companies came together in a rare show of solidarity to fight the bill. Even Microsoft, a company that has long called for tougher piracy laws, acknowledge that SOPA goes too far. The website Tumblr's campaign to get its users to call congress generated 87,834 calls alone. The American Censorship Day campaign sponsored by Fight for the Future and the Electronic Frontiers Foundation was also very successful.

Has the tide turned against SOPA? With powerful congressional figures such as minority leader Nancy Pelosi speaking out against the bill as well as the energetic online opposition, its prospects for passage seems less certain. However, users on the site Reddit are not taking any chances...they are in the process of building what they call 'meshnet', a network that will directly connect users' computers to provide an independent network that is under the radar and beyond the reach of SOPA if it is passed into law.

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[ReallyCoolchannel]

SOPA is wrong, beyond wrong. The country - "America" is about freedom, this isn't. Yes, piracy is a problem. Though they have BIGGER problems. Like, you know, their economy, their protests, and so on. This won't help anybody other than the big companies, honestly. It will kill internet freedom. This will only cause MORE problems, not help anything honestly.

And also, this isn't a "jobs bill". This is ruining jobs people could have made from the internet.

[kuang3881]

这其实是很严重的问题了!今天我开firefox的时候, 首页都写帮忙反对sopa

如果这影片说的没错的话, facebook那些网站很容易中招而且要陷害竞争对手也超容易

如果哪一天政府跟也跟你说要sopa, 看你到时去哪里找免费的电影和歌

我看你到时连facebook也进不去

[Kylatw]

Wait...

Scary movie 5 ?!

[violetgalaxy12345]

@lkjfds26 別一干子打翻所有人, 每個事件都是利益的拉扯, 你不也是因為想要網路自由下載這個利益嗎?

版權權利團體當然也要他們版權的利益, 祇是手段不適合而已, 漫怨特定國家, 種族只是無濟於事

[4605alex]

最後那段是什麼意思?@@



[RinoaDestiny]

Fight bills like these with vigor and watchfulness! Dictatorships don't start overnight - they're gradual and they all start small, cloaked with 'doublespeak' words that sound good but backstab when you least expect it. For all of us Americans, it's time to fight this. Fight and protest hard and don't let them intimidate you! We can do this!

[z0003415]

那些好萊塢明星應該是最安靜的一群才對,賺了一堆錢,有一堆名和­利還敢要求那麼多?

[robloxzrock]

huh did apple+microsoft=appmicrlesoft

[aqc121]

反對抗議是一回事，我還是覺得勢微力薄…

[joshua89122]

@alphon5e actually these aren't Japanese but Traditional Chinese used in Taiwan, and NextMedia is a Taiwanese company.

[andre18maia]

SOPA IS DEAD!!!!!!