In the past week or so I have been reading a lot about SOPA and PIPA and trying to figure out my view on these laws. In theory I think that these laws make a lot of sense, it makes sense that content holders, publishers, artists etc will have the legal right to protect their creations from piracy, however in reality is SOPA really the way to go?
probably not, my main problem with SOPA is that gives reinforcement authorities to close down and damage legitimate businesses and websites. This, will not only affect internet users and consumers but also marketers.If a judge has the right to close down any website at any time based on one user’s post that may contain information or data that was pirated, then websites and marketers are in big problems.
The internet have become the largest growing marketing platform, companies invest enormous amount of time and to come up with online marketing strategies and a lot of money to advertise on websites like: youtube, facebook, twitter, gmail etc… If laws like PIPA or SOPA would get approved it is likely to change the way companies invest in online advertising and marketing. Companies will have to think twice before investing in a n online campaigns due to the fact that their “place” of advertising aka youtube/ facebook/ twitter can get shut down at any time leading for their investment to go down the drain.
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