http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20120122/WIRE/120129914
In this column, Jaron Lanier discusses the consequences and evaluates the new bills being pushed to stop Online piracy. Lanier acknowledges the widespread resistance in the internet-world to the new bills, referencing Wikipedia's staged black out and Google's blackened banner. Lanier asserts that even those who support the SOPA (stop online piracy act) should recognize the huge drama that it's creating. So much so that companies that openly support the act seem to be ostracized from the media- universe. Lanier then asses the controversy from a personal perspective, emphasizing the many websites affected by the acts to ban online piracy by reflecting that even the seemingly harmless blogging forums could be shut done merely because of their operating servers if they're found to be linked to piracy. Lanier presents that piracy and copyright infringement was inevitable with the internet's constant growth and becoming an ultimate free resource. The idea of free content was an idea that continued to expand, and with the manipulation of resources to post copyrighted materials also came a flood of other issues, such as advertisement and the tyranny of internet media moguls, such as google.
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