Thursday, May 1, 2014

Illegal Materials Downloaded By Congressional Web Connection

By Cornelius Nunev


Illegally obtained materials are extensively accessible online. The SOPA bill is intended to make these materials less obtainable, a fact that consumers of the Congressional web connection seem to be responding to by downloading more unlawful material.

SOPA info

The Stop Online Piracy Act, officially known as H.R. 3261, was released as a companion to the Protect IP Act released in the U.S. Senate. If passed, the bill allows copyright holders to submit claims of copyright infringement. These claims would do every little thing from blocking online payment processors from doing business involving copyright infringement to forcing search engines to block access to the disputed content.

Several people point out that the First Amendment rights might be violated due to the bill. It would also reform the internet forever. The bill would make it so a business is not responsible for any damage claims if it was just trying to enforce copyright protections.

Installing not legal

Torrent freak used You Have Downloaded to search the House of Representatives' download history. You Have Downloaded searches IP addresses to pick out download history, although it only gets about 20 percent of torrent downloads. In that search, Torrent freak found that there have been over 800 pieces of illegal content downloaded. This includes self-help books such as "Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High," and "How to Answer Hard Interview Questions And Every little thing Else You Need to Know to Get the Job You need." It also incorporated hardcore pornography, TV shows and films.

SOPA vote postponed

Businesses are starting to change their minds out sustaining SOPA. GoDaddy was a registration service that supported SOPA until it ended up badly. There was a customer backlash which led the business changing its mind and deciding not to support SOPA. Many organizations and companies have been doing this. Congress will not be voting on the bill until after the first of the year.




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