The SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) is a US bill introduced to stop Online Piracy.The bill is meant to allow the US Government to close websites that host content that is copyrighted.
We here at Pixelfind are totally against the bill, because it is meant to threaten speech and innovation, and allow the US Government to close websites that have content generated by users – this means that website as big as Facebook or YouTube could go out of the law because of this bill.
The worst thing about SOPA is that it allows the US Government to close any website with what they consider of having problems directly from the DNS server, so you might have your favorite website closed the next day. This is worrying for everybody using the free worldwide web. We here at Pixelfind are worried about the situation on how the SOPA bill could pass in the US.
It might be that this bill is in the US, but please consider the fact that almost 60% of all websites are hosted on server in the North American country. The bill will be voted somewhere around January 2012 from what we know, and we hope that this bill will be denied from the start.
Major companies like Google, Yahoo!, Craigslist or Facebook have already made their stand against this situation. We'll keep you posted!
Cosmin | Pixelfind
