Imaging the life with PIPA and SOPA

    What we’re doing everyday online is just basically searching for information, communicating and sharing with others, listening to music, watching videos, playing games, writing blogs and other ways of having fun. Most time we’re enjoying personal life online, in other words, what we’re doing is related to our privacy. However, since PIPA and SOPA come out, can you still enjoy your personal life? The answer is obvious.

    On the one hand, it feels like that everything you’re doing online is monitored. There’s no freedom of speech. You may not share movies, music, novels, and pictures with your friend because they’re all Copyright-protected. Then what can we do on the Internet? Any law should not take away people’s privacy and free speech.

    On the other hand, there may be no free knowledge. You may need to pay for the searching and studying. Isn’t that the way PIPA and SOPA work against the network nowadays? That’s why Google and Expedia oppose PIPA and SOPA. Society needs free and large encyclopedia as Expedia to encourage gaining knowledge.

    As a game lover, I do care more about the PIPA and SOPA’s influence on games. Can you imaging that there’s possibility that YouTube being forced to close if someone put a game video on YouTube? In extreme cases, behaviors as playing music in multi player game, or citing Copyright-protected articles without permission, is against SOPA. That is, if the music that you play at home is heard by other players on the network, you break the law.

    SOPA will totally change the way people reading online and more important, the online game. I don’t want to see a game website being closed because of a link which is protected by copyright.