SOPA

By now you should have all heard about this, the bill being proposed in the american government that will supposedly stop piracy, but really, 'destroy the internet' is a much better way of describing what this bill will do. The bill allows the government to take down websites that haven't even committed piracy, just ones where they think it will happen. The website megaupload, which we've all used at some point has now been completely destroyed along with mega video. RIP mega video, i watched all of deathnote, fma and fmab on it, and it will be sorely missed. Even Anonymous, the (obviously) anonymous and mysterious groups of hackers temporarily took down some american government sites in response to these actions. If you still think to yourself, this will be good piracy will be stopped and all my favourite bands will be more successful. Firstly, wrong. Piracy while it does loose the artist some money it makes significantly more in the extremely large amounts of advertising piracy gives. Secondly, Youtube. People who post videos on you tube occasionally complain that one of their videos got taken down because of copyrighted music or something like that. Well, with SOPA absolutely everything gaming related would no longer exist, no machinima, no let's plays, Absolutely no footage of games. It won't just be games though huge portions of youtube will be blocked or taken down. The creators of mega upload and megavideo(who are not american citizens) have been arrested in new zealand (how did america possibly get jurisdiction for this?) and are facing extreme jail sentences. Recently Sopa was rejected partly or something like that, it is not gone completely jst put off, im sure there much better explanations other places, so this is just to inform the people who don't know.