Yesterday, many online sites blocked out their content to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act. And that's why this blog post is up a day later.
It's a noble effort, on paper, to take on pirates.
But how does downloading music equate to the noted rape and pillaging in the 16th century? Maybe Disney wants to protect its Pirates of the Caribbean series, but while I love Capt. Jack Sparrow as much as any woman, it's not fair to put Wikipedia, Google and Tumblr on the chopping block so the Mouse Inc., et al, get a bigger payday.
I prefer to read Wired online, to create websites on Tumblr and get some quick basic facts from Wiki and Google.
"Under the current wording of the measures, the Attorney General would have the power to order ISPs to block access to foreign-based sites suspected of trafficking in pirated and counterfeit goods; order search engines to delist the sites from their indexes; ban advertising on suspected sites; and block payment services from processing transactions for accused sites," Wired reports.
SOPA is simply a sop to big corporations at the expense of the First Amendment.
