Stop Sopa

This blog post features 3 articles about the bill SOPA. All the information in the articles is based on before the bill was declined. And for everyone who doesn’t know what SOPA is well it’s called the Stop Online Piracy Act. The idea of the bill was to stop online piracy because all the actors and musicians songs where being downloaded for free so they weren’t able to make even more money then what they are already making, however in the process what the bill would have done it would have shut down the internet as a whole to try and stop online piracy, so that means all your precious social networking, I.M. sites, and YouTube would have been taken down in the process of this bill. 

In his article “Why we need a law on online piracy,” Lamar Smith persuades the American people that we need to stop online piracy. Smith’s viewpoint is that we need to pass a bill called SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) to help control online piracy. Smith uses persuasion to get his view point purpose and main idea out on the article. Smith’s evidence is that we are “Costing the U.S. economy $100 billion and thousands of jobs every year,” and all of that comes from the online piracy. Smith’s connotation is he use big scary words to try and make people feel scared if this online piracy is too continue. The author uses logos and lists statistics about how much damage the online piracy is doing. I would trust this article because it was written on CNN which is a well trusted news source and also the article not only looks professional but it reads like someone who really knew what they were talking about wrote this which is why I would trust this.(http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/20/opinion/smith-sopa-support/index.html)

             In his article “We Don’t Need SOPA/PIPA,” Limer informs the American gov. why we don’t need SOPA/PIPA. Limer’s view point is that we don’t need SOPA/PIPA because we already have a broken piracy act call DMCA, I know this is his viewpoint because it’s the main point of his article and he does not include and evidence why we do need SOPA/PIPA. Limer’s evidence is that we already have a bill called DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) and we should just fix that instead of making a whole new act that could really harm or even destroy the internet as a hole. Limer’s connotation is using words that make the creators of SOPA/PIPA look stupid for creating the acts such as words like infringers and insanely. Limer does not use conflicting evidence in his article because that wouldn’t show his bias in the article. Limer uses pathos in his article because he describes how awful it would be if we did pass SOPA/PIPA. I would trust the accuracy in this article because it looks professional it doesn’t have any grammar errors and it seems to be a trusted website.

(http://www.geekosystem.com/dmca-is-already-broken/)

       In his article “Mega Upload case proves we don’t need SOPA or PIPA,” Matthew Ingram persuades readers that we don’t need SOPA or PIPA because the FBI already shut down the site Mega Upload. Ingram’s viewpoint is we do not need the bill SOPA because the FBI was able to shut down and arrest the owners of the site Mega Upload which was the worlds #1 downloading site and if they were able to do that then why would we need SOPA. This article does not state any conflicting evidence because then Ingram’s bias would not be able to show through in this article. Ingram’s connotation in the article is negative and he uses things like Red Flags and takes. Ingram uses logos to show statics to show how SOPA is affecting the internet and the people using the internet. I am kind of iffy on this article because he really doesn’t say where he got his information from and its an unknown site, he does state good information but he seems to be saying the same things over and over again.

(http://gigaom.com/2012/01/20/megaupload-case-proves-we-dont-need-sopa-or-pipa/)