The US House of Representatives is drafting much discuss aboutSOPA or Stop Online Piracy Act. SOPA that was introduced in the United States House of Representative last year that is October 26,2011. The bill develops the ability of US law enforcement and copyright holders to fight online trafficking in copyright intellectual property and counter field goods.
Proponent of the bill says, it conserve the intellectual property market and assimilate industry, jobs and revenue. It is decisive to bolster enforcement of copyright laws especially across foreign websites. The opponent says that in infringes on First Amendment right is Internet censorship will cripple the Internet and will enforce whistle blowing and other free speech. After transporting a court order, the US Attorney General could depend upon US directed Internet service providers advertisement also bar search engines from displaying links to the sites. The bill would enable the US Department of Justice to seek court orders across websites outside US jurisdiction accused of infringing on copyright or enabling or facilitating copyright infringement.
In recent weeks they discovered BitTorrent Pirates at the RIAA, Sony, Fox, Universal and even law abiding organizations including the Department of Homeland Security. In organizations all across the world, YouHaveDownloaded is a treasure trove full of incriminating data on alleged BitTorrent. Even in the most unexpected of places, unauthorized downloads occur from the palace of French president via the Church of God to the RIAA. The US House of Representative stated that although they do not plan to go on forever trawling the archives, they felt that there was at least one place that warranted further investigation. They wondered show many of the employees there have engaged in unauthorized copying since it’s the birthplace of the pending SOPA bill on BitTorrent.
On BitTorrent in total they found more than 800 IP-address assigned to the US House of Representative from where content has been shared. After a closer inspection, it quickly became clear the House is not just using it for legitimate downloading. They list a few of the 800 hits that they found on YouHaveDownloaded which in turn represent just a fraction of total downloads since the site only tracks a limited percentage of total BitTorrent traffic. This is real and confirmed data that just as good as the evidence used by the RIAA when they appeal tens of thousands of people to file sharing. In the house, something that immediately caught their eye are the self-help books that are downloaded. The people at the heart of democracy are also downloading familiar content including Windows 7, popular TV-shows and movies. Books aim to be popular in the House because they found quite few more such as Do not open, an Encyclopedia of the World’s Best Kept Secrets and How Things Work Encyclopedia. There was another category that aside from self-help books, House employees are also into adult themed self-help videos. They list one of the least explicit, but that is just the tip of the iceberg.
REFERENCE:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-57329001-281/how-sopa-would-affect-you-faq/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act
While Drafting SOPA, the U.S. House Harbors BitTorrent Pirates
http://www.techmeme.com/111227/p15#a111227p15
http://www.fs.fed.us/sopa/
http://discardedlies.com/entry/?60773_while-drafting-sopa-the-us-house-harbors-bittorrent-pirates-
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1211/70878.html
