Members of Congress are trying to do the right thing by going after counterfeiters, but SOPA and PIPA are the wrong way to do it. SOPA is the Stop Online Piracy Act, a bill sponsored by Representative Lamar Smith to prevent theft of American-produced content via any of the classic means of accessing paid movies, music, and so on online--without paying for it. PIPA is the Protect IP Act, a bill designed with the intention of protecting goods that are copied by counterfeiters. Both are massively controversial, hence the online protests on January 18, 2012 from names as big as Google and Wikipedia. But why is SOPA a bad idea you may ask? It's not because they are stopping piracy of course, that is great; but is because these acts will have detrimental effects on many websites; forcing them to eventually shut down.
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