What SOPA Could Do

24 Jan, 2012Computers, Internet
What SOPA Could Do

Recently, free speech and free information advocates celebrated one small victory over yet another big government effort to control too much of our communications.  SOPA, or the Stop Online Piracy Act, poses as a pro-entertainment industry bill aimed at eliminating the online piracy of copyrighted materials including computer software, music, movies, video games, and more.  The trouble is, it would hold everyone liable for what the few are doing.  It would change life in the USA, from Delaware to Mississippi and beyond,  to something more like life in a a communist country.

No one wants to see people illegally passing along copyrighted materials through dodgy file sharing sites, or worse, selling pirated copies for profits and benefiting from something the original artist received nothing for — but most of us believe that information should be free.  After all, how do you hold a moonbeam in your hand?  Here is an infographic that explains in a concise way just what would happen in the even that SOPA somehow was passed into law:

 

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