U.S. against PIPA and SOPA

Stop SOPA and PIPA Bills

The U.S. Congress will reconsider bills about PIPA and SOPA.

The protest of internet industry leaders have had an effect – U.S. congress decided to send back infamous bills SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (PROTECT IP Act) for revision.

As it was reported, eBay, Facebook, AOL, Google, LinkedIn, Mozilla, Yahoo and many others made ​​a public condemnation of SOPA. Also BSA (Business Software Alliance) Alliance, which approved it at first, now refused to support this bill.

The criticism of the bill was made by the largest web-based resources Reddit and Wikipedia, intending to protest against limited access to visitors to their sites in this environment.

Senate Majority Leader Eric Cantor said that “very controversial” SOPA will not be put to the vote, till in respect of the bill is not found consensus.

The author of a bill Lamar Smith said that the project needs further development, which will estimate how much influence SOPA will have on the Internet.

In particular, he stated that from the text Stop Online Piracy Act should be deleted the paragraph on limiting access to pirate sites by blocking DNS.

As it is known, in parallel with SOPA is promoted the less “famous” project PIPA, which provides additional tools to combat the spread of pirated content on Web sites that do not fall under the jurisdiction of the United States. It is planned to prevent financial transactions with such sites and prohibit the links to them by blocking their access at the DNS.

Lawers say that both projects are in fact a tool of internet censorship. In addition, they put in a very unfavorable conditions ISPs and domain registrars, because they have to perform a punitive function of a court sentence.

On Saturday President Barack Obama made an entry in his blog and criticized the SOPA and PIPA in the current form. According to him “the adoption of the law threatens freedom of expression on the Internet and undermines the development of global networks.” But he does not plan to veto the law and hopes that it still can be taken in some form.

Author: Tamar Tsintsqiladze