PIPA And SOPA Were Stopped, But the Web Won

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Art Brodsky's Report on SOPA and PIPA:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/art-brodsky/pipa-and-sopa-were-stoppe_b_1230818.html

Internet users fought back against SOPA and PIPA, but it seems as if this bill was the first to have ever been introduced to america. It's not. Bills like these that have been around since 1998. The Internet Community's bictory over SOPA and PIPA aggravated one of the main supporting co sponsor of the bill, the MPAA. The chairman who was a former senator, Christopher Dodd told Fox News

" "Those who count on quote 'Hollywood' for support need to understand that this industry is watching very carefully who's going to stand up for them when their job is at stake. Don't ask me to write a check for you when you think your job is at risk and then don't pay any attention to me when my job is at stake."

What the hell is this guy babying about, he's still making hundreds of millions. 

Back to the bills that have been trying to regulate technology since 1998. The Digital Millenium Copyright Act, created in 1998 was passed and was successful until even today in using the notice of take-downs on the internet for infringement. Then there's the The Inducing Infringements of Copyrights Act of 2004 that was summarized that certain technologies will lead to infringement. Basically saying that the advanced technology was going to lead to infringement problems like piracy and P2P sharing. Then before the SOPA and PIPA we had something similar sounding to PIPA, the Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act of 2008 Pro IP Act (Pro-IP-Act). That was signed into law on October 13th of 2008. This Act basically allowed companies and authorities to take away computers or any other equipment that would be suspected of infringement. So this article basically summarizes in saying:

"So, Web community, bask briefly in your glory.  Then get back to work, because the next industry-sponsored bill to curb technology will be here before you know it, and they might be smarter next time about how they pursue it."


Analysis:

• The sites shows updates on Twitter for updates on the defeat of SOPA and PIPA, as well as updates from Bert Johnson. - https://twitter.com/#!/SenBertJohnson

• The HuffingtonPost is information from columnists, who independently write for the site. Some information may be biased as all news is, but being an Independent news source it seems a lot more reliable than FOX or MSNBC. Art Brodsky actually claims to work for a news organization  called Public Knowledge that contributed to the blackouts and majorly protested against SOPA and PIPA. They are completely independent website,so as far as accuracy, it seems more reliable than the major biased sources such as FOX or MSNBC. 

• The information stays consistent on all reports on how the internet protest was successful in stopping the SOPA/PIPA from voting into bill. However, in this report Bert Johnson explains the potential dangers of bills similar to SOPA/PIPA that could be passed in the future. That SOPA and PIPA were not the first of corporate controlled internet regulation. Citzen journalism has become very popular now that blogging has become so majorly used in society. Also everything is on video now, from politce beatings to murders, everything these days is on someone's camera. And when the footage is shown on a website it is for the most part expected to happen. The reporting of this kind of journalism may invade privacy, but this has become standard protocol these days. This also helps our freedom of speech, because rom independent sources, information is more than likely to be explicit. Users get to see both a a perspective from news programs and from first hand civilians.