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Stopping Online Piracy Bad for Business?
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It’s not what you would expect to hear, the idea that putting an end to online piracy might actually be bad for businesses. Yet, that is exactly the case. Companies like AOL, Yahoo!, eBay, Facebook, Twitter and others are all concerned about the impact of SOPA on their companies. ISPs have the same concerns, since if this law is actually passed, someone has to enforce it, and someone has to be responsible for it. Imagine you are an ISP and SOPA is in effect: now you have to monitor the Internet use of your customers and report their banned use to authorities? Even ADT can’t protect you from that. Insane. And it gets worse. Read on.
If SOPA passes, every Internet user’s online privacy is down the tubes. People will be watching and monitoring your every move. If you look at something a bit inappropriate, someone, somewhere will know about it. Sure, you could argue that there is already no such thing as privacy or anonymity on the Internet, but at least for now it’s still debatable. After SOPA, there will be no doubt. Check out this infographic for more reasons why SOPA could equal bad news:
