
The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) has caused a major uproar across the
Web whilst simultaneously becoming a polarizing political topic. In
case you need a refresher, SOPA is
an act being proposed by congress to stop the spreading and sharing of
unauthorized copyrighted content across the Internet.The act threatens
to change the very way we have navigated the Web for the past two
decades. SOPA would enable the government to shut down any website that
links to a server that hosts copyrighted files. This means that any
website that has a message board would be at risk of government
takeover, since any user can possibly post a link to a cloud-based
server hosting illegal content.It creates an interesting polemic:
obviously there needs to be a way to track and control the unauthorized
spread of copyrighted material,