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The Wild West of the Web: Copyright, Piracy, and the Law

As legislation dealing with copyright reform has stagnated in Congress, a look inside the widespread problem and its controversial solutions.

Today, in the age of the internet, privacy and security are increasingly crucial concerns for citizens, legislators, and corporations. To understand the intertwined nature of contemporary technology, politics, and business and to see just how ubiquitous this relationship has become in society, it is useful to examine the issue of copyright violation, specifically online piracy. This problem, as well as the search for viable solutions pertaining to it, is not only an intriguing concept in and of itself, but also a synecdoche for the many obstacles we face entering the 21st century. So far, several solutions have been proposed in the United States Congress aimed at stopping online piracy. Among these are the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) and Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA). In January of 2012, SOPA and PIPA were shelved indefinitely by the Senate due to concerns regarding privacy. This postponement occurred following widespread protest from several major websites, including Google, Reddit and Wikipedia. Both major political parties were concerned that SOPA and PIPA did not find a “balance between protecting Americans’ intellectual property, and maintaining openness and innovation on the Internet” (Williams). If passed through the Senate, these bills would allow the government to obtain any information they desire if it relates to stopping a case of copyright infringement.Read More!