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By making a law like SOPA, the USA is making a decision on the behalf the entire world and forcing people in other countries to deal to deal with it, with no say in the matter. I did not have say on the representatives in Congress (I'm in Canada), then why am I effected so drastically by laws made in the USA? Just because the ICANN is in the USA, does not mean that the USA should removing an entire website from the worldwide internet for failing to notice one piece of infringing content that was user-submitted. SOPA is just too vague and not only targets sites which are specifically made for piracy, but also those simply made to allow user submissions, such as Youtube, where there a great amount of original content, not made for copyright infringement. This also targets new sharing platforms, including those not yet made. Launching a new sharing platform as a startup is going to be almost impossible under this law. If SOPA was more specific towards the sites that took part in rampant piracy (and did not discard the notion of innocent until proven guilty), I would be far more supportive of it than I am now. The idea of the "internet" being disrespectful towards content creators is an uninformed generalization. The internet is a community anyone can be part. There are no formal requirements to be part of it, and as a result of that, there are going to be people, who will take part in such activities. Due to the fact that there no requirements to be part of the internet, it is not possible to make a claim about the internet as a whole. Lastly, iPhone jailbreaking and game-console hacking is so the owner of the device has the freedom to use their device in the way they choose. On the iPhone, you can only install apps that are approved by Apple. There are quite a few apps that are really well made and innovative, that are not on the appstore because they did not fit Apple's guidlines. Jailbreaking is the only way to get these apps.While jailbreaking is often used for piracy, saying the entire practice is wrong is taking away the ability for users to control what they can use on their own device. |