do you think SOPA is good for stopping all the illegal free torrent downloads?

Question

i think it's a good thing to limit the losses to the record and movie industries. i think ALL torrent downloads should be purchase only! if all the "free" torrents were gone and only purchases could be made over the internet no "free" downloads it would best. what do you think?

Answer 1

No, Just.. no.

Answer 2

First, you need to understand just what exactly a torrent download is. Yes, it is used quite often for illegal downloads of copyrighted material, but it is also a very good protocol for downloading public domain and "copyleft" materials that are of enormous size. I have used torrents to download a DVD image of public domain books from Project Gutenberg (it contained the full text to almost 30,000 public domain books), and a copy of Slackware Linux (GPL license). There is nothing illegal about these at all, and torrents was a much more efficient way to download then an FTP site.



My thoughts on SOPA: It was the right idea, but the wrong way to go about it. The idea was to try to crack down on illegal downloads and protect the property of Americans that produce music, movies, books, software, etc. But it put the burden on many web sites to police themselves, and could have shut them down if they mistakenly didn't catch one item. Although it wasn't the intention to shutdown sites like YouTube and Facebook, it could have been possible.



The bill is on hold right now, trying to drum up more support. Hopefully, they will change the parts that are too drastic, and come up with a more reasonable version of the bill if it gets reintroduced again.

Answer 3

To make an analogy that is easy to understand, SOPA and the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, say that if someone robs your store, the government has the authority to shut down your store. The inventors of the internet (the REAL inventors not al gore) say this will totally screw up the internet and will restrict free speech, and that it gives the government the power to shut down any political dissent on the internet, and that it will have absolutely no effect on preventing piracy.



The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement was signed by our beloved fuhrer Obama, on Oct 1, 2011, which is the global treaty equivalent to SOPA. The treaty has not been ratified by the senate, but Bush and Obama have succeeded in effectively making the congress totally ceremonial and have crowned themselves elected dictators. So who knows when it will be implemented.

Answer 4

I think no, because just like every-other-person-who-doesn't-read-things-properly, You assume SOPA would only effect pirates. No. Facebook, Yahoo! Answers, Tumblr, MySpace, Blogger, Google+, forums, messageboards, imageboards, Twitter, etc. would ALL be effected by this. And they could all be blocked by your ISP. The ARTISTS deserve the money. Not the corporate fat cat behind the desk who does nothing. That's why MegaBox was a GREAT idea and that's why Hollywoods shifty snakes couldn't allow it to happen.

Answer 5

The USAs failed attempt at utilising a bulldozer to accomplish surgical technique with regard to copyright. sure is would paintings for an relatively brief time...even as the blocks are bypassed(afterwords, many web sites will merely circulate out of jurisdiction and for this reason be unaffected). in the top that's going to supply government a gamble to shutdown actual any internet site, legally.

Answer 6

For music artists, they would think it's a good deal.

Answer 7

It doesn't matter. They can't stop it.