What is SOPA

I am extremely happy that we are doing this post, it's a way of knowing what's happening all over the world at the moment. Especially that it concerns many of us, as it concerns the internet and a way to fight online trafficking in copyrighted materiel, in way or another, it's legalizing the internet, no more taking what's not rightfully ours. But don't tell me you never downloaded a song or a movie from the internet, well, this bill is what it's all about, it's here to stop all this. SOPA stands for Stopping Online Piracy Acts, it was a U.S bill introduced by Lamar Smith. Its main goal was to protect the theoretical property of its creators and to give the profits won from American innovations to its innovators. Let's take an example on jailbreak, jail breaking let's you get the paid apps on the App Store for free, that way, the developers that made those apps will not win, and their effort would be useless because everyone-in a symbolical way- stole the app. Personally I'm happy that jail breaking will end, because I was worried that people would go buy the app for free knowing that I made the effort to put, and the developers pay in order to publish it on the App Store. The impact that SOPA will do on web-browsing software is really clear. In a specified case, the web browser "Firefox", it has an extension called MAFIAAFire Redirector, that would redirect users to another location with domains that were banned from the U.S government. Then in May 2011, Mozilla were asked to remove this extension questioning whether this was illegal or not. A lot of companies support this bill, because they feel that they have a chance to gain their rights and not getting robbed. Me, I think it's a great act and I hope it works and stays this way.