The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA) are both anti piracy acts. the purpose of the bills are to strengthen the prevention of online piracy. There are already acts like the (DMCA) are in place to to shutdown unauthorized content on the Internet, but the purpose of (SOPA) and (PIPA) are to stop the actual source of the content, which is the site its coming out of. These acts will give the U.S. justice department the power to go after foreign sites and companies with ties to sites that are releasing unauthorized content. Many seats in the legislature are for the acts but some don't want these acts passed. Representative Darell Issa of California is against the passing of these two acts. Issa is proposing a different act, the OPEN act. He says that this act will give the International Trade Commission the responsibility of following out this act, rather than the Justice Department.
My personal opinion on this matter is that these acts should be passed. The knowledge i have on the subject leads me to believe that (SOPA) and (PIPA) will help with the fight against Internet piracy a great amount. Internet piracy can be harmful to companies and people that use Internet services everyday, and I think it needs to be stopped. I believe stopping unauthorized content from getting copied starts from the site its being downloaded or copied from illegally. This is where it needs to be stopped and I think these acts will do that.
