SOPA and PIPA
Stop online piracy act (SOPA) along with the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) is a bill by the US government that aims to stop online piracy. As they are currently written, they both give copyright holders and the us government the authority to seek court orders out against websites that have copyright infringed content in other country’s is it becomes law it will change the face of the internet and free speech will be meaningless.
ACTA
Anti-counterfeit trade Agreement (Act) is an international trade agreement that is being negotiated by the EU, US, japan, Canada along with a long list of other countries. The aim is to enforce copyright and tackle counterfeited goods. The main reason this so called treaty has only just come up in the news is because all of the negotiations were done in secret from the public and civil organisations. ACTA aims to make Internet service providers such as BT, Sky, etc. legally responsible for what their users do online, turning them into internet police by censoring their networks. This will mean that free speech on the internet will completely disappear; with ISP scanning for keywords such as Downloads etc. it would give large operations the power to stop generic drugs before they got to the people that need them. The entertainment industry knows that topping file sharing is impossible without destroying the web. But they can use ‘piracy to maintain control over what distributed over the internet
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