Today content producers and web users around the world are voicing their opposition to draconian and ill conceived legislation drafted by the US and other governments that could result in the end of the world wide web as we know it.
Wikipedia, Reddit and others are staging an internet blackout on their English language websites and many more are making known their opposition to ever increasing volumes of legislation that place onerous restrictions on the principles of free speech and technology we rely on to communicate.
'Big Content' trade associations such as the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and British Phonographic Industry (BPI) continue to use lobbying and other questionable methods to influence the creation of copyright legislation to suit their purposes without due consideration to the rights and needs of the public who are ultimately their clients. With the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) threatening to alter the security and very infrastructure of the internet solely to satisfy the needs of a wealthy minority, the time has come to make a stand and say 'enough is enough'.
Pixaria Software is strongly opposed to the use of legislation such as SOPA that has been drafted without any consideration to the technological, security and free speech impacts it will have should it become law. Speaking as a producer of commercial software, it's important to recognise that copyright theft can be a significant problem for rights holders. Legal solutions to these issues must however be drafted and implemented in a sane, technically feasible and secure fashion, something SOPA cannot offer as it currently stands.
You can find out more about SOPA and the impact it and similar legislation would have on the future web at these websites:
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Wikipedia
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