如果昨日有留意到维基百科网站出现黑色页面，上面大大个写着“试想一个没有自由知识的世界”，其实就是为了抗议SOPA与PIPA的网络安全法。虽然这是美国下的一个法令，但是我们都知道网络龙头大都在美国，所以可以影响全世界的网络动态（举个例，没有能自由发表的Youtube，Facebook，Wikipedia…想到都可怕吧）
PIPA (Protect IP Act) 是参院法案为《保护版权法》，SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) 是众院法案为《禁止网络盗版法》。SOPA的目的是“通过打击侵犯美国知识产权行为而推动市场繁荣、企业家精神和创新”，而PIPA的目的是“防止网上对经济创新和知识产权盗窃的威胁”。法案内容则是让美国司法部可以通过寻求法院传票来关停有盗版内容的网站、阻止相关的付款渠道。它激发的支持和反对，相当黑白鲜明。
说白了，这两个法令是为了让传统的商业与消费行业打击山寨从而延长其寿命的保护伞；让发展和创新互联网行业和个人网站／用户的暗杀者。现在法案仍然处于沉浮，那我们就拭目以待这场革命性的网络之战吧…你站在哪呢？
If you have noticed that Wikipedia website yesterday, it is a black page with a big header written ”Imagine a world without free knowledge”, in fact it is to protest the SOPA and PIPA network security. Although this is a decree under the States, but we all know that most of the leading internet companies are in the States, so this act can affects the whole world network system (For example, imagine there’s no free post in Youtube, Facebook, Wikipedia… how terrible would it be)
PIPA (Protect IP Act) is the Senate bill, “the protection of copyright law”, SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) is the House bill, “internet piracy law”. SOPA purpose is “to act against violations of U.S. intellectual property rights to promote market prosperity, entrepreneurship and innovation”, whereas PIPA purpose is “to prevent online theft of intellectual property rights on innovation and economic threat”. Contents of the bill is to allow the U.S. Justice Department to shut down the site with pirated content and prevent the associated payment channels. Of course, there are support and against… which is quite obvious.
To make it simple, these two bills are meant to protect the traditional commercials and consumer industries to extend its life against the counterfeits; and it demolish the developing innovative Internet industry and personal sites. The war is still going on, we wait and see how this Internet Revolution will go…Pick your side.
via imenzu
