Group 4B Research: Awkward Turtle Team

It is clear that we need to revisit the approach on how best to address the problem of foreign thieves that steal and sell American inventions and products."

"The Committee will continue work with both copyright owners and Internet companies to develop proposals that combat online piracy and protect America’s intellectual property," Smith continued.

The ideas present in both SOPA and PIPA may return, but both bills in their present form—and with their present names—are probably done for good.

SOPA and PIPA may have been put on hold -- thanks to possibly the most contentious uproar seen on Capitol Hill and in the tech world ever -- but other legislation was introduced this week to combat online piracy.

ccording to Issa’s site KeepTheWebOpen, which elucidates the bill in its entirety and asks for people to comment on it, “If the ITC investigation finds that a foreign registered website is ‘primarily’ and ‘willfully’ infringing on the IP rights of a U.S. rights holder, the commission would issue a cease and desist order that would compel payment processors (like Visa and Paypal) and online advertising providers to cease doing business with the foreign site in question.

Hollywood’s staunch and powerful support of SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) in the House, and PIPA (Protect Intellectual Property Act) in the Senate is much maligned.

OPA has been delayed, for now.

and Internet domain company GoDaddy.com (which lost many accounts as a result of its support for the bill); SOPA has been shelved.

The Motion Picture Association of America, one of the bill’s largest sponsors, is expected to regroup.

The SOPA online piracy bill that helped spark this week's unprecedented Internet protests will be redrafted, its lead sponsor said Friday.

The move came shortly after the Senate postponed a key vote on the companion PIPA bill scheduled for next week and amid calls for consensus before Congress moves forward on any legislation to address the problem of foreign piracy websites.

But he warned, "The day will come when the senators who forced this move will look back and realize they made a knee-jerk reaction to a monumental problem."

What is the purpose of the bill?

There are actually two bills, the Stop Online Piracy Act, known as SOPA, in the House and sister legislation called the Protect IP [Intellectual Property] Act, or PIPA, in the Senate. Both are designed to tackle the problem of foreign-based websites that sell pirated movies, music and other products.

How do the bills attempt to stop piracy?

The Future of Science: Building a Better Collective Memory

On the Internet, the traditional information cycle is broken in a variety of ways. News may be reported, analyzed, debated, corrected, and reinterpreted in a matter of hours. Old stories from decades ago may be re-examined. Factual information can be evaluated, expanded upon, and expounded on by a wide variety of readers.

The dynamic, user-friendly interface of the Internet as we know it today, is breathed life into by a multi-layer global network system that connects hundreds of millions of computers. This large system is comprised of multiple local and global networks serving private, public, business, academic and government purposes, which allows for the exchange of data between more than a hundred Internet-linked countries worldwide. This makes the Internet an enormous carrier of various information resources and services, such as text and multi-media data, email, online chat, VoIP, file transfer and file sharing, ecommerce, online gaming, etc.

The explosive growth of the Internet over the last decade is attributed to two basic reasons - the non-centralized management of its development and the non-proprietary nature of its main functional units - the Internet protocols. This 'freedom' of the Internet determines its balanced organic growth and prevents it from suffering the consequences of monopoly.

MAIL MADE EASY

Referred to collectively as Web 2.0., the new technologies are drawing a fresh influx of dollars to the Net.

Yahoo started with a set of Web communications tools and added news feeds. While traditional news organizations may turn up their noses at such commodity content, it's wildly popular with tens of millions of users who simply want to know what's going on in the world on a constant basis.

Governments, on the other hand, usually lag behind and are forced to catch up.

But this leaves governments vulnerable in many ways and thus, it can be said that generally speaking, information technology has a negative impact on governments.

governments are not leaders in technology

we found ourselves editing and revising copy that had come from a variety of platforms, through at least a dozen delivery methods.

made it easier for us to manage contacts while we were on the road and acted as a depository for story ideas. The fax machine was kept working at home and in the office, receiving story pitches, copy, designs, individualized newspapers, more copy, sketches, takeout menus, and ever more copy.

Without E-mail, half of what you'll read in these pages would not have materialized. Copy changed hands via every commercial on-line service you can imagine, as well as through a plethora of Internet sites.

The answer, in the peer-reviewed study of the online habits of girls ages 8 to 12, is that those who say they spend considerable amounts of time using multimedia describe themselves in ways that suggest they are less happy and less socially comfortable than peers who say they spend less time on screens.

But the researchers hypothesize that heavy use of media is a contributing factor to the social challenges of girls.