Does SOPA Matter?
The Federal Bureau of Investigations has recently shut down one of the biggest online file sharing websites in America, MegaUpload, due to many charges, the main one being infringement of copy-righted material; Kim “DotCom” Schmitz and three of his associates are already in custody. Another online file locker company, TVShack, was also shut down by the FBI. But wait… SOPA didn’t pass, did it? It didn’t. It seems the US Federal Government is determined to win this war on piracy, with or without SOPA in hand.
This is a very unsettling turn of events. If websites are being shut down prematurely, what will happen if SOPA does become a reality? Many websites such as YouTube and GrooveShark closely monitor the content that is uploaded on their servers, yet even they cannot stop all copyrighted materials in time to get indicted. Search engines aren’t too far behind, as they are sources that link to file sharing websites, not unlike TVShack, who was shut down for linking to a website with illegal content, not possessing any of their own.
The reality is the Internet has evolved into a social community of sharing and linking, and as a result there is nearly no manageable way to stay safe; comments or reviews left by purchasers even have the ability to put a site at risk.
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