"Stop Online Piracy Act" or SOPA is a bill that could be passed in America that would censor websites to stop Copyright infringement. If what I interpreted is correct, this would mean that DeviantART could be shut down because of all of the fan art that deviants produce. Youtube, Tumblr, and a lot of other websites have a very likely chance of shutting down too if this bill passes. If it were to pass I read that the consequences for violating any copyright type thing (like fan art, or posting signed artist's music video on YouTube) would automatically translate to you living in jail for a few years.
I thought that this was a free country.
The government should not be this controlling. We need to stop SOPA before it is too late.
spyed also has made a journal about this.
spyed.deviantart.com/journal/R… The links he refers to is what brought SOPA to my attention along with some stuff I saw on Tumblr. Please go to those links and sent a message to congress!
How do you feel about this subject?
Copyrights should be respected but going this far seems to be a bit much. :<
this sucks...i am so making a journal about this...