SOPA is a huge swear word.
Autor: Deku Link | Publicado: 2012-01-20T17:21:00-08:00

Yep, it became serious. The way winds are blowing these days we're gonna have a worldwide storm pretty soon, and we won't need to wait December the 21st to cool things off. And it's all because of a pretty snowball, rolling around, for almost eleven years, since the beginning of the new century, witch became very, very huge, and now is swearing very loud.
From one side, I understand companies need to protect the rights of their employees. From the other, I understand the websites need to protect the rights of their clients. What I cannot understand is why all this raucous fuss about profit. That's all it is, and, in the end, both sides will lose everything.
The companies, witch are the&nbsp; offended part, got a decade of campaign against what they call piracy, and by all means is no piracy at all for 'cause there is no one selling their products on the web. These companies who also encourage the use of the means of what they call piracy, by adding all its features in their products. Who's never seen or heard of a DVD player witch plays AVI and MP3 files. There are even now those Blu-ray players witch added to its features the capacity of reading DivX files, a well known, by what is called, piracy format. In fact, the most popular one. There! Why can't they just do like Nintendo, witch refuses to feature in their consoles more tools than the ones they use, clearly, to avoid real piracy. And what about the movie Elite Squad, witch survived real piracy with so much dignity it earned a sequel.
The websites, the offenders by the eyes of law, witch goes skating over responsibilities they have for the space the provide; a space that, even granted to others, is still their. A space that should be used for people sharing their experiences but, instead, is filled with junk, encouraged by the websites themselves. A space that could be better if some designers, programmers and alikes wasted it to get over the law statements without breaking the law. The file sharing sites, living of their donations, with no efforts at all to stop copyright infringements, doing nothing more than bore the common and unallied users. The P2P applications disgracing the legacy of Napster, witch actually shared only what users wished to share, in a very specific&nbsp; range and was only used by common web users.
The companies should know, and I think they do, that they hold all the means to stop this. Long time known ways to take advantage of file sharing, witch very few practice, and making profit. And the websites should know, witch I think the do too, that they are responsible for what their users share, because they are responsible for the web space provided. And that is a long term used way of sharing with profit, mostly by gaming companies.
But, the most hideous of the swears propelled by the monster snowball is Wikipedia. That's it. The nature of all this mess is concentrated in one and only website. The one with no means to survive but advertising spaces and real donations. A real and genuine service to all the world wide web. The one that is going to be shut for sharing mere texts of INFORMATION. Yep, that's all they got! No downloads, no file sharing. Just information. Like any encyclopedia book. Why the hell is it in the line of the snowball then? Just because it shares information companies want to be not shared. And by want I mean want, and only want, for the companies themselves shared the information. Who the hell they think they are to forbid the others to mention what was told to them? And, with Wikipedia down, what comes next? No more blogs?
The companies they have no right to control what people say, no matter if it's verbal or audiovisual. That secrets are to be kept secret, and, once told to someone, anyone, they are already public domain, for it is no more secret. And for the websites, there's no use trying to borrow some more time. Just get out of the United States of America and get based somewhere else, where the so-called-American Laws can't grasp you. But you already know that all, don't you? And, by the end, the only one really losing will be the common citizens, ain't it? Oh, my god! SOPA!