Short briefing. American media companies are always looking for new ways to combat piracy. They tried hard to stop piracy especially facilitated by the Internet and then work with the U.S. government to shut down the domains that clearly violate this. But these efforts could not stop the domains from outside the United States or prevent users to access the domains. Which is why published a law issued by the U.S. Senate called PIPA (Protect IP Act) and issued by the U.S. House of Representative called SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) where they target all media copyright violations, but not close the possibility of sites that sell physical products.
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Websites from outside the United States threatened to get blocked. Application of SOPA and PIPA not only affects the websites originating from the United States only, but its influence will appear more widespread for the websites from outside the United States. SOPA is considered far more ferocious than the PIPA, due to SOPA stating that the site is committing or facilitating copyright infringement is classified as a website that violates these rules.
If this happens then the websites from outside the United States can be blocked unilaterally. There are two possibilities that could be blocking the first is to block sites that violate, but was later eliminated due to the way many people are protesting. And the second way is to stop all business and service providers that facilitate the business.
If so then you have a website with a market in U.S and proved to perform acts of copyright infringement then all matters relating to business affairs on your website will be terminated as an example on the web if you have Google Adsense, CJ, using PayPal, or any other then the service this will soon be stopped. Even worse then your website will not appear in Google search results.
War on SOPA. However, the bills was opposed by activists and defenders of freedom of expression rights of digital and online business giants. “Freedom, innovation, and economic opportunities made ??possible the Internet is in danger”. On November 15 last year some big companies like Facebook, Google, eBay, AOL, Yahoo, etc has written a letter to U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representative for opposing the bills.
Some observers have also stated that the SOPA and PIPA is a form of warfare between the industries ‘Hollywood‘ with the ‘Silicon Valley‘. Hollywood considered revenge as they are not able to combat piracy, and more emphasis should be to counter this approach from the business side.
Then what should we do? Waiting to see how the continuation of the bills? Or protesting? If you want to participate to against SOPA - you can go to SOPA Strike. So who will win Hollywood or Silicon Valley? Who Knows?
