Wednesday, September 18, 2013

SOPA Vote Coming Up While House Downloads Illegal Material

By Cornelius Nunev


The SOPA bill is meant to make copyright protections in the United States stronger, but there are several opponents of the bill. Some of these opponents have discovered that Congressional online connections have been used to download illegally obtained products.

What is SOPA?

Copyright holders would really appreciate it if the Stop Online Piracy Act, or H.R. 3261, was passed. Released with the Guard IP Act, the bill would let people file copyright infringement claims. This would block search engines from showing the disputed content and would block online payment processors from working with the issue.

Several individuals point out that the First Amendment rights could possibly be violated due to the bill. It would also reform the internet forever. The bill would make it so a company is not responsible for any damage claims if it was just attempting to enforce copyright protections.

House unlawful installing

Torrent freak used You Have Downloaded to search the House of Representatives' download history. You Have Downloaded searches IP addresses to choose out download history, although it only gets about 20 percent of torrent downloads. In that search, Torrent freak found that there have been over 800 pieces of illegal content downloaded. This includes self-help books such as "Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High," and "How to Answer Hard Interview Questions And Everything Else You Need to Know to Get the Job You want." It also included hardcore pornography, Television shows and movies.

SOPA not going very well

Congress is not in session, which means the vote on SOPA has been postponed. While Congress is gone, corporations have been changing their minds about SOPA. For instance, GoDaddy, a domain-registration service, supported SOPA originally. Its customers were not very happy about that. It led to GoDaddy announcing that it does not support SOPA anymore.




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