Reaction 4 :) Sofa

The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is a United States bill introduced by U.S. Representative Lamar S. Smith (R-TX) to expand the ability of U.S. law enforcement to fight online trafficking in copyrighted intellectual property and counterfeit goods. Provisions include the requesting of court orders to bar advertising networks and payment facilities from conducting business with infringing websites, and search engines from linking to the sites, and court orders requiring Internet service providers to block access to the sites. The law would expand existing criminal laws to include unauthorized streaming of copyright material, imposing a maximum penalty of five years in prison. A similar bill in the Senate is called the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA).

  I’m not really against sopa but before I state my stand in this issue let me state first the disadvantage of sopa and the disadvantage of it. First it will be really helpful in industry of movies. They can earn money because everyone will patronized their movies because there is not act of piracy but can’t we think that those students who are studying in public and their teachers told them to watch this movies and that movies. Without piracy how they can afford to buy an original copy of those movies? The fact that they are just studying in public school. The only way for them to do their reaction paper is to watch it on the internet, YouTube and any website that they find those movies. I think they are just making a business. I know it will realy to our industry but still poor people will affect about it.

 We should really think of a ways to stop piracy. I think lets have limitation on the movies that they will be banned to stop piracy. Like for example those are really having a great help to education. There’s a lot of ways to stop piracy but I hope Sopa will not be successful because there will a lot changes in surfing internet and all the students will having a hard time to do their assignment and who are slow in suing computer can't follow well because of those changes.