I think sopa has been temporarily pulled but they will try again later. it turns out with the current laws the government can already shut down. whatever site they want to shut down
The US government has shut down top file hosting service Megaupload and had its founder arrested on suspicion of causing $500 million in lost revenue to content sellers.
The Megaupload sites were managed through an international network of companies, head-quartered in Hong Kong.
Although not a US company and not managed from the US, the fact that it maintained US servers and supplied millions of US visitors with illegal downloads was considered ample legal grounds for the federal government to move against it.
keep in mind no bank employee has ever been arrested for whats in a safety deposit box. no matter how fraudulent the item or the actions were to get said item. it seems the only safe place to put a server is in a bank
Media companies, which are always looking for new ways to fight piracy, have already suing individual users, getting Internet service providers to take action against subscribers, and are already working with the U.S. government to shut down domains based in the United States. However among all this, none of those actions can stop overseas websites such as The Pirate Bay and MegaUpload from infringing copyrights, or prevent Internet users from accessing those sites. Thats where Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA) come into play.
I think sopa has been temporarily pulled but they will try again later. it turns out with the current laws the government can already shut down. whatever site they want to shut down
The US government has shut down top file hosting service Megaupload and had its founder arrested on suspicion of causing $500 million in lost revenue to content sellers.
The Megaupload sites were managed through an international network of companies, head-quartered in Hong Kong.
Although not a US company and not managed from the US, the fact that it maintained US servers and supplied millions of US visitors with illegal downloads was considered ample legal grounds for the federal government to move against it.
keep in mind no bank employee has ever been arrested for whats in a safety deposit box. no matter how fraudulent the item or the actions were to get said item. it seems the only safe place to put a server is in a bank
Media companies, which are always looking for new ways to fight piracy, have already suing individual users, getting Internet service providers to take action against subscribers, and are already working with the U.S. government to shut down domains based in the United States. However among all this, none of those actions can stop overseas websites such as The Pirate Bay and MegaUpload from infringing copyrights, or prevent Internet users from accessing those sites. Thats where Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA) come into play.
sopa, was never as simple as that. were only trying to do good