Saturday, September 14, 2013

SOPA Vote Coming Up While House Downloads Illegal Material

By Cornelius Nunev


Dishonestly obtained products are widely available online. The SOPA bill is meant to make these products less accessible, a fact that consumers of the Congressional web connection seem to be responding to by installing more unlawful material.

Facts about SOPA

Copyright holders would really appreciate it if the Stop Online Piracy Act, or H.R. 3261, was passed. Launched with the Protect IP Act, the bill would let individuals file copyright infringement claims. This would block search engines from showing the disputed content and would block online payment processors from working with the problem.

The bill would make it so internet services trying to enforce copyright would not be responsible from any damages. This might totally reform the internet and, as some have pointed out, could violate First Amendment free speech protections.

House unlawful installing

In the House of Representatives, there have been quite a few downloads found by torrent freak. There were 800 pieces of illegal content shown on You Have Downloaded including Television shows, movies, self-help books, and a ton of hardcore pornography. The list of self-help books incorporated "Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High," and "How to Answer Hard Interview Questions And Anything Else You Have to Know to Get the Job You would like." YouHaveDownloaded is a service that looks at torrent download history associated with IP addresses. It will give a general history, since it does not catch all of them. It is expected to record about 20 percent of all torrent downloads.

Fewer individuals want SOPA

The vote on SOPA has been postponed until at least after Congress returns after the first of the year. While Congress is out of session, many of the companies and organizations that have supported the passage of SOPA have been targeted by opponents. The most noticeable example of this is the domain-registration service GoDaddy, which originally supported the bill. It faced a large consumer backlash and drain of customers to other services. GoDaddy has now come out strongly against SOPA, citing consumer feedback.




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