SOPA May Not Have Passed, but the Effects May Still be Felt

Written by Nick G. - Posted on Monday, 30 January 2012 18:41

As you no doubt have heard, Congress has actually listened to the overwhelming-opposition to, what was considered to be, a rather invasive piece of legislation. However, the bill did not go down without a fight; as you've also no doubt heard, the popular file-sharing medium Megaupload was seized by the Department of Justice. Since then, news outlets from all sides are speculating as to whether or not other, similar websites are just as at risk for the same treatment.

"On January 19th, the United States Department of Justice put the hammer down on file sharing site Megaupload, by charging its owners with online copyright infringement. Seven people and two corporations—Megaupload Limited and Vestor Limited—were indicted by a New York grand jury and charged with a variety of crimes. If convicted on all possible charges, those involved face up to 50 years of jail time.

In the wake of this news, several file-sharing sites changed their operation methods. Filejungle and FileSonic eliminated third-party downloads, while Uploaded.to blocked American users from accessing the site. These three file-sharing sites worked preemptively to prevent similar fates, which raises an important question: what are the fates of file-sharing sites as a whole?

It's hard to know which websites, if any, will next taste the swift fist of justice, but there are a handful of choice suspects that are prime candidates for speculation. For example, the MPAA considers three online destinations as "rogue sites" for linking to copyrighted movie and television content: 1Channel.ch, Movie2k.to, and SolarMovie.eu. The reason for the MPAA's concern is obvious; all three sites act as pointers to sites that feature movie downloads for films that are currently in theaters (such as Underworld: Awakening)."

Source: PC Magazine

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