At the moment all around the world there is ani-piracy 'war' that took place after US Piracy Officials took down site: megaupload.com and megavideo.com, famous for sharing films, videos, photos and files that user could share on social media: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc. In return the best group of hackers that defend user rights: Anonymous, took down Department of Justice. This is all thanks to SOPA and PIPA.
What is SOPA and PIPA?
SOPA stands for 'Stop Online Piracy Act' and 'PIPA for Protect IP Act', both of these acts happened because of online piracy infringement, government was unable to stop copyright infringements by suing individual users so US decided to go beyond and create an act that internet providers and search engines would take particular responsibility for their users. So your current internet provider at the moment might have preview of the things you search and do on the internet.
Personally I think this is the answer from the government to the artists and celebrities and people that are currently making millions on their work. From one perspective it is wrong, but even government will not be able to stop people from downloading songs, movies, software, etc.. They would of have to case almost 90% of human population or cut the internet.
That's impressing how does things can happen, and I also agree with you that the government will not be able to stop those things to happen.
ReplyDeleteHi Dam,
ReplyDeletean interesting subject here, I think it would be good for you to put some case studies in also of potential court cases. I think it will be difficult to stop everyone downloading stuff, it will be interesting to see how this turns out.
Regards, Paolo.