PIPA and SOPA - By Jaydon Headrick

  PIPA AND SOPA

PIPA and SOPA are 2 bills that didn’t get passed. These bills are for the internet and copyright. Here are some facts about PIPA and SOPA 

These bills were going to fix the copyright issue, like copying movies for free, stealing ideas, ect. These where made because movie makers ,Hollywood especially, got mad because people would copy there movies and post them on the internet or stream them on the internet. They said they lost “tons” of money, when people could of bought the movies instead of copying them for free. Now here is the scary thing, PIPA and SOPA would of mostly got rid of the whole Internet. Because if something had some kind of copyright on it and that it was not there’s, it would be shut down. Like YouTube, Facebook, instagram, ect. When the bill was in congress, Google and Wikipedia and 7,000 more websites went down for protest against this bill.

“SOPA and PIPA: The Basics”

“Media companies are always looking for new ways to fight piracy. They've tried suing individual users, getting Internet service providers to take action against subscribers, and working with the U.S. government to shut down domains based in the United States. But none of those actions can stop overseas websites such as The Pirate Bay and MegaUpload from infringing copyrights, or prevent Internet users from accessing those sites.
Originally, both bills provided two methods for fighting copyright infringement on foreign websites. In one method, the U.S. Department of Justice could seek court orders requiring Internet service providers to block the domain names of infringing sites. For example, Comcast could prevent its customers from accessing thepiratebay.org, although the underlying IP address would still be reachable. This ISP-blocking provision was a major concern among Internet security experts, and both SOPA and PIPA have dropped it.
The other tool would allow rights holders to seek court orders requiring payment providers, advertisers, and search engines to stop doing business with an infringing site. In other words, rights holders would be able to request that funding be cut off from an infringing site, and that search links to that site be removed. The site in question would have five days to appeal any action taken.”  Got this from à http://www.pcworld.com/article/248298/sopa_and_pipa_just_the_facts.html

Again, lots of people protested against this PIPA and SOPA because it would of shut down a lot of popular websites. These bills will and might come back again. Instead they will be hidden in a “good bill”. Anyways  I think Privacy should be handled in a different way, and Instead of shutting down everything. They could just Take the movie off it or video game or Any copyright thing.  And yes, I think Copyright should be stopped because companies are losing money when we copy the movie online, and the main copyright website is piratebay.
I hope you all enjoyed this article about PIPA And SOPA. If they ever come back, Vote against it! And I mean they will be in different forms!! Thank you.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/248298/sopa_and_pipa_just_the_facts.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act