We are not a rogue web-site, we don’t host or link to copyrighted content, nor we endorse these activities.
Mhackintosh.com is committed to Mac hacking, we don’t share file, we don’t link to file-sharing websites usually, we will even host ourselves our own developped Mac software. So we produce content, copyrighted content, and as such we like the idea of being protected against illegal copy or use of our work.
Being a copyrighted content producer why fight SOPA and PIPA?
There’s too many reasons to explain them all here, I suggest you follow the link ( http://americancensorship.org/ ).
One reason is that any form of censorship is bad, that censorship in hands of private corporate hands is worse, and censorship in hands of abusers is the worst things of all. And they have already have done that, abuse censorship systems that some web site offers to majors. They abused the system, and they will have huge power to shutdown any site for any reason, without having to justify themselves!
Another reason is that these law will offer the ability for any tradmarked brand or copyrighted content to shutdown any website, or even websites that links to these websites, at any time.
The direct impact of these laws
So if a commenter add a link to copyrighted content, your web site could be banned definitively.
If you have a link to regular content on another web site and for *ANY* reason the other web site present copyrighted content, changing it’s page, your own web site could be banned definitively.
Did we have to monitor link on each commenter? I think we should discard links, probably.
Did we have to monitor any page that we link to, just in case there’s copyrighted content on it? Or there may be changed to host copyrighted content? Impossible!
Many of the web sites we use each and everyday to dig information, and were we put links, such as the incredible Wikipedia ( http://wikipedia.org ) might be impacted by these laws, and I feel it’s dangerous for Free Speech, as well for Internet Business of any kind.