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.
It was interesting to read your opinion on PIPA and SOPA and see how you feel these bills/laws could affect you personally. I know about the two to an extent but reading this made me realize certain things I hadn't considered before reading your post.
ReplyDeleteYour mention of certain sites being closed down just because of a link which is protected by copyright just shows how outrageous some of the "rules and regulations" PIPA and SOPA are trying to impose on user of the internet. In so many ways when we use the internet, as you mentioned, we are sharing, viewing or searching for some material that has some copyright on it and if SOPA and PIPA were in effect, would have us breaking every other law!
The internet is like a whole other world where you are who you want to be and can do whatever you like. I agree with you that with PIPA and SOPA, although they are meant to be crediting authors of certain material/artistry etc, will simply be invading our privacy and watching our every move on the internet ready to pounce whenever some breech is made perhaps more for the benefit of the industry and "people at the top" so to speak.
Ridiculous! :p
There is a reason why our age is called the "Information Age" - it's because of this free flow of information that we can get and mostly it is because we can access any kind of copyrighted work via internet.
ReplyDeleteI mean, I think most of my time is spent on the internet looking at an ABUNDANT amount of information - music, videos, games, books, etc. With PIPA and SOPA, I don't think the internet would be a relevant tool anymore to access these kinds of information.
If we look at during the time when there is no internet, it's just like if all the libraries being closed down because they LEND - without cost - everything with copyrights! Libraries don't only lend books, they also lend cds (believe it or not, they actually lend music cds and movies)!
So why didn't they "close down" the libraries - which is also a source of information that we can copy, but when it comes to the internet, we get PIPA and SOPA?
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