Loading ...It won’t be wrong to say that everyone is involved in online piracy in some way or the other.
SOPA (Stop Online Privacy Act), the bill to check online trafficking of copyrighted intellectual property and forged goods, has so far achieved huge success in this regards by blocking several suspicious websites involved in illegal business. The bill, also known as H.R.3261, was introduced in the United States House of Representatives in October this year.
However, it would be wrong to say that the bill has got complete success in what it was supposed to do. Recently, some anonymous employees of some of the key copyright holder companies were found to have downloaded content illegally using the BitTorrent network. The companies include Sony, Universal and Fox.
Now the news is even bigger. Two major institutions of the United States — the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which are supposed to be part of the fight against online piracy, have been identified, the employees of which were found downloading copyrighted content through the BitTorrent network.
The Recording Association Industry of America is supposed to be one of the major dominating lobbying groups of Hollywood. The main function of RIAA is to work on behalf of the recording industry. RIAA is one of those institutions that highly advocate SOPA. The other name is much better known, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. One of its major functions is to seize and block the suspicious domain names involved in online piracy.
Even if we say that not all, but only some of the government departments’ employees are involved in this act, it still won’t be wrong to say that SOPA is not much of a benefit to the copyright holders. This comes as a real shock to all those who think that not everyone is a culprit. This eye-opener fact has raised the question once again: Is it possible to stop online piracy completely?
