The great battle between Congress and the web

Congress and the internet had a big battle this week. It started with the US congress trying to shut down the web by pushing to implement the anti-piracy law which includes SOPA and PIPA. The web collectively as a group decided to protest against this passage of the bill by either shutting down the entire website, like what Wiki did, or like what Google did by censoring their front page. Other promitant sites like Time, Wired, Reddit and other reputable sites. All web companies called it an censorship bill which will snuffle the growth and innovation of technology companies.

Whereas media mogul like Rupert Modorch is calling Google a company that is making off money from selling ads off those illegal links.

Within a day, the congress lost the support of 35 senators and the number of tweets was 1% of all tweet traffic for the day. Anonymous are taking down websites like DOJ, MPAA, RIAA and Universal Music, though massive DDoS request to their sites, one of the largest attack being conducted by the group.

Feds took down file-sharing site Medaupload and accused it of hosting illegal files. The founders made a handsome profit of $42 million from this site alone, which generate revenues from advertising and subscribers who want to download files at a faster speed.

I would say not to mess with the cyber world regarding this bill. The music and movie industry have to shake up their business model in order to survive, stop going behind the legal barrier to squeeze the last dollar from the pirates. Those who are determined to get your content for free will continue to do so even if you erect a million pay barriers. They should make music and movies as cheap as how iTunes did it. They should start making users to make impulse purchases in order to sell by volume and earn more from a new method of distribution.