Today the Internet Blackout day, Many Big Websites including Google, Facebook, WordPress, Wikipedia are Against to this SOPA(Stop Online Piracy Act)/PIPA(Protect IP Act) Bill and are striking in their own way. First of all, Vint Cerf, one of the founding fathers of the Internet, opposed SOPA in an open letter to Congress and then and then security experts Steve Crocker, David Dagon, Dan Kaminsky, Danny McPherson and Paul Vixie issued a white paper raising serious concerns about the technical approach of PIPA. and then almost all major...
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The only thing more terrifying than US congress trying to take an incumbent stranglehold over the internet is the apparent lack of care or concern exhibited by the general public. To keep this as succinct as possible: SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) is a bill created and championed mostly by the bigs in Hollywood to stop the piracy and illegal sharing of copyrighted material. That sounds ok, but unfortunately the bill makes it illegal to share, or facilitate the sharing, of any copyrighted item (photo, video, text or audio). It allows the...
Are you looking for those company who supports Stop Online Piracy Act(SOPA), we make your task easy. Here we shared a chrome extension Protest SOPA which notifies you everytime when you visit the website of a company who supports the SOPA bill. This extension notifies you if the domain of the site you’re currently on belongs to a company which supports the...
From when the SOPA(Stop Online Piracy Act) is going out, no one can understand what is SOPA and what is inside this act. So Here’s an infographic which contains all of points related to SOPA bill which you want to know. In India,Reliance ISP also forced to banned all file sharing website by giving some copyright issues very similar to SOPA bill. Also Read:- How...
SOPA is the Stop Online Piracy Act, which is introduced last month by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith. The SOPA act allows copyright holders to challenge the use of their content in any form on the internet, means in simple we can say that SOPA block all sites which post the “copyrighted” stuff. For example, if someone upload a copyrighted...
SOPA stands for Stop Online Privacy Act, also known as H.R. 3261, is a bill that was introduced in the United States House of Representatives on October 26, 2011, by Representative Lamar Smith (R-TX) and a bipartisan group of 12 initial co-sponsors. The bill expands the ability of U.S. law enforcement and copyright holders to fight online trafficking in copyrighted intellectual property and counterfeit goods. Now before the House Judiciary Committee, it builds on the similar PRO-IP Act of 2008 and the corresponding Senate bill, the Protect...