How much control is too much? Monday morning the United States government took control of the world wide web and decided it was time to be done with a number of sites that encouraged and aided the sharing of copyrighted materials, like movies, music, books and any other intellectual property. This raised a few questions for me personally. I immediately wondered if they could do this to a site for showing you where to download certain material, could they find a reason to shutdown any type of information feed? Or do they even need a reason to do so?
Overlooking the obvious need to assist artists and other intellectual property from being shared and altered without consent, these sites did not directly violate any type of laws. Sites such as Bit-Finder, just search for these files, does that mean the results should be blocked on other search engines too? Or is the simple fact that they are contributing to the economy protect them? Either way the rules need to be defined in a way where there is very little room for interpretation. Right or wrong, black or white, otherwise the middle ground will always lean towards those with the most chips in their stack. Now I’m not saying I have the solution, but here’s hoping somebody does before its too late.
Kelsey Out..
