Thursday, January 26, 2012
SOPA in Still Water
CNN posted a news story story yesterday about the current state of the SOPA/PIPA bill. One interesting thing that I found in the article was that the SOPA bill wasn't even the most lobbied bill of 2011, the most being some bill about making appropriations for Department of Defense[1]. Continuing reading of the article shows that most of the companies for the bill are ones that don't seem to have a huge internet presences. The ones against the bill have a much greater presence on the internet, and therefore have much more to lose if the bill had passed. With all the bad press of SOPA, I doubt that the bill will keep the same name when it is rewritten. Also with the whole of the internets against it I don't see a bill like that passing until lobbyists for it start thinking about everyone it would affect.
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ACTA seems to be the next iteration of SOPA. It's an international version that large countries such as the US and Japan have already signed, but most small countries are opposed to it. Poland has had many large protests. Ultimately, if European Parliament passes it, every country in the EU will be forced to abide by it even if they oppose it.
ReplyDeleteI've heard mixed things about ACTA. I've heard it's not as restrictive as SOPA, and I've heard it's worse than SOPA. I think it depends on which part you're looking at, but I don't think it's a good idea either way because it still causes internet censorship.
Full Text of ACTA:
http://www.international.gc.ca/trade-agreements-accords-commerciaux/assets/pdfs/acta-crc_apr15-2011_eng.pdf
Anti-ACTA Pamphlet:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/access.3cdn.net/75979d5cc0096c5bc8_dkm6iydok.pdf