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January2012

PIPA & SOPA: creating a Faux Paus!

Posted by:admin in:Seobaba

A solemn internet show-down prevailed on the web in disagreement with the two proposed bills to the American Government : Stop online Piracy Act & Proposed IP Act.

These are two new proposed bills that aim at censoring the web by imposing impossibly difficult terms and conditions. The foot in the mouth is that the government is really considering these bills to make them passable! Like Really; the house in Washington DC is considering the tow bills inclusive of these burdensome regulations on American Businesses. Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect IP Act, better known as SOPA and PIPA have faced severely strong criticism by leading U.S. portals and websites.

In protest, the audience was left seeking data on Wikipedia that would refuse any knowledge transfer; Word Press was dark and gloomy in the muted disagreement with the bill. Twitter, Tumblr, Rediff, Mozilla and other leading internet companies rose in protest against the claimed efficacy of SOPA & PIPA. There was a lot of hue & cry raised against the many claimed targets that these bills proposed to achieve.

Huge petitions signed and followed by millions of techies, and internet users were forwarded to the Congress and other stakeholders in the intended decision making. There are yet innumerable people who are trying to reach out to the decision makers over the phone urging that they rethink PIPA and SOPA.

They all believe that there can be practical measures that one could undertake to fight with online piracy successfully. Taking away copyrights from many hoax websites last year was one such measure. But applying stringent regulations will not really be effective. If we do not make any extra allowances to the foreign sites that will really help us in transcending online piracy equation.

However, most internet marketers and opinion holders feel that PIPA and SOPA are mere face-offs that will disrupt innovation and lead to dearth of job creation in the internet market. They also claim that the gap in law-abiding U.S. companies and bad actors will only widen with their applications. Even then, these bills will not really be able to reduce piracy.  The communal activities would go on albeit with different IP addresses. The ruling from the big Ivory Tower was in support of these less influential subjects! PIPA & SOPA are indeed a Faux Paus and need to be backed with powerful and practical measures.

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