Thursday, January 26, 2012

The internet status: SOPA


Hi, it makes a long time since I wrote anything. I hope you had a good new year, because I hadnt...
Now on-topic, usually Im not interested about news, I just dont have patience, but in these last days I've been following some tweets, the central topic: SOPA and PIPA

But what is this?
Well…in Portuguese SOPA is soup and PIPA is barrel xD

According to wikipedia

The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is a United States bill Introduced by U.S. Representative Lamar S. Smith (R-TX) to expand the Ability of U.S. law enforcement to fight online copyrighted Trafficking in counterfeit goods and intellectual property

The PROTECT IP Act (Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act, or PIPA) is to proposed law with the Stated goal of giving the U.S. government and copyright holders additional tools to curb access to "rogue websites dedicated to infringing or counterfeit goods "