Another new
year has passed and now we’re 2012, the time goes by fast.
This month I would like to talk about something rather scary that happened early
this January. It’s called SOPA (short for Stop Online Piracy Act). This was a
new kind of law made to stop online piracy and failed to pass the votes a few
weeks ago. Now you may have noticed things happening around the internet, like
Wikipedia “shutting down” one day, the Google logo getting a big black bar in
front of it and (for those who know what 4chan is) 4chan ‘censoring’ all text
on their website with black bars as well. All these occurrences were protests
against SOPA. Now why would we want to protest against something that would protect
the content that musicians, moviemakers, game makers, etc. against piracy
(downloading illegally from the internet)?