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3/20/12 With SOPA shelved, anti-piracy advocates take new approaches Though the Stop Online Piracy Act, SOPA, failed to get congress’ approval, anti-piracy advocates are still fighting online piracy on a different front. Many new ideas are in the works to stop the illegal act of online piracy. Companies such as Verizon and Comcast are starting to run tighter anti-piracy policies. A system known as the Copyright Alert System has been developed, which would target the web browser instead of a website. This system works by the Internet provider slowing down someone’s Internet connection if they are caught downloading illegal content off of websites. Companies that use this strategy are hoping to educate rather than penalize customers for their illegal activity. Advocates are also taking the issue of online piracy to other countries by speaking at seminars in other nations. Even a treaty in the United Nations has been proposed on the topic known as the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. Advocates are hard at work in order to reform Internet laws. Copyright laws have been in place for the U.S. government since the 1700’s. The government has these laws in place in order to protect the author’s or artist’s right to the film, song, book, etc. The Support Online Piracy Act was created in 2011 in order to stop people from downloading content such as movies, music, books, and other works from the Internet. Many people and companies protested this act, saying that it was a step towards “censorship” of the American people and they felt that their rights were threatened. The bill was shot down in congress, but there is still debate over the topics discussed in the bill and a revision may be presented to congress in the near future. The new bill may contain some of the ideas discussed in this article, such as the Copyright Alert System. This article proposes some very interesting ideas. I think it’s interesting to see anti-piracy advocates working so hard to get their message out to the world. I think that if a bill is passed that doesn’t censor the American public, but helps stop online piracy, we could see a similar bill to SOPA passed in the near future. Although, this bill would probably be on looser terms and do a lot of what the Copyright Alert System suggests rather than shutting down thousands of sites. **Bibliography** With SOPA shelved, anti-piracy advocates take new approaches - CNN.com." //CNN.com - Breaking News, U.S., World, Weather, Entertainment & Video News//. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Mar. 2012. .
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 * 1) Will there be another bill similar to SOPA?
 * 2) What other ideas can come from this attempted online law reform?
 * 3) What countries will be willing to sign for the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement?

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