Congress Supports SOPA While Dishonestly Installing Self-Help Books

By Cornelius Nunev


Dishonestly obtained products are extensively accessible online. The SOPA bill is meant to make these materials less accessible, a fact that users of the Congressional web connection seem to be responding to by downloading more illegal material.

Information about SOPA

The Stop Online Piracy Act, officially known as H.R. 3261, was introduced as a companion to the Shield IP Act released in the U.S. Senate. If passed, the bill allows copyright holders to file claims of copyright infringement. These claims would do anything from blocking online payment processors from doing business involving copyright infringement to forcing search engines to block access to the disputed content.

Finally, the bill would make any internet services totally immune from damage claims that could arise from actions taken to enforce copyright. Several opponents of the bill point out that the law could violate First Amendment free speech protections and cut the basic structure of the internet off at the knees.

Pot calling the kettle black

In the House of Representatives, there have been quite a few downloads found by torrent freak. There were 800 pieces of illegal content shown on You Have Downloaded such as TV shows, movies, self-help books, and a ton of hardcore pornography. The list of self-help books incorporated "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." YouHaveDownloaded is a service that looks at torrent download history associated with IP addresses. It will give a general history, since it does not catch all of them. It is anticipated to record about 20 percent of all torrent downloads.

Support for SOPA disintegrating

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




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