The Blackout Day, a SOPA & PIPA story

Many may have noticed that sites such as Wikipedia, Reddit as well as Google (US) have blacked out their sites today to protest against a bill called SOPA. Now you may think: “What do I care, I am not living in the US” and you may think that the SOPA does not effect you at all. Well think again, because if this bill passes, it could easily be copied in other countries as well. More likely is that the US will try to force other countries to join them in the fight against the terror, excuse me I meant of course piracy.

I know that there are lots of people who are more qualified and can better explain why and how bad SOPA is, but I personally find it ridiculous if I hear that SOPA basically can shut down a website like YouTube if one of their users is uploading a video of his / her kid who is singing a popular song which (s)he taped and uploaded on his / her channel. What? Honestly?

I can understand that the movie and music industry is concerned about piracy, but please keep your pants on. First of all movies and music also got copied back in the 80′s via tape recorder and VCR’s, so this isn’t new and second it is not easy to believe that the movie and music industry is suffering because of piracy, if you see the millions of dollars they receive for one appearance in a movie or on stage.

Don’t get me wrong I think it is great if someone achieves great things in life and lives in a big house, but I hope you can agree that it does look a bit “funny” if these people, who have it all, try to stamp on our little world… wide web, where we can be the “hero” for our audience.