Anti-SOPA activists find ways to keep the Internet free
As Americans ready for a legislation that will impose a government-sanctioned firewall over the Internet, the elite computer-literate hacktivists attacking the law are finding ways to circumvent the passing of SOPA.
If the House and Senate have their way, the Stop Online Privacy Act, or SOPA, will leave Capitol Hill soon and seemingly cloak the Internet with Congress-created blockades that will shun every user of the World Wide Web from a whole slew of content, including music, videos and, in a nutshell, knowledge. Under the legislation, violation will yield massive fines and imprisonment — all for such action as uploading videos to YouTube. While the legislation is being delivered as a way to deal with copyright infringement and piracy on the Web, the law itself will severely cut down the free-flow of information online and would make something as simple as singing karaoke a crime if the footage ever finds an audience on the Web.... MORE
Source: RT.com
URL: http://rt.com/usa/news/internet-sopa-pipa-anonymous-377/
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may mga ways to go about SOPA naman pala pero mas mainam siguro magpunta na lang sa non-US social networking sites. leave fb and google, etc.
"Even easier to understand is a video uploaded to YouTube this week by Leah Kauffman, the mastermind behind the Obama Girl-videos that led up to the 2008 Election. Over computer-programmed drums and a soft piano melody, Kauffman sings, “Don't put up a firewall when we could have it all / Say no to protect IP / You won't stop piracy / What is this China?”"
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