SOPA needs to wash up

In the article SOPA loses BSA support for online censorship Microsoft, Apple, and Adobe all agreed that the Stop Online Piracy Act needs some more work. The act as it stands is like a giant fish net that allows any copyright holder who feels as if their copy right is being infringed to have the website hosting it remove the content. IF the website hosting it fights this or if the copyright holder wants to they can cut off all forms of advertising which will deal a significant blow to the revenue of the website. What Microsoft, Apple, and Adobe all saw was cluster of mines that no company could steer through unharmed.  They are in support of protecting and enforcing copyright holders authority, but they also agreed that SOPA’s wording took it way too far. I have been watching over SOPA and bills like it for quite some time. This isn’t the first time big business has tried to “buy” the internet. However what has been shown is the uproar it will cause for this is not the first time this has happened. In Egypt and London the internet proved to circumvent a government that was trying to oppress its people; however, with SOPA it has been compared to communist china that blatantly censors whatever the government does not deem right. Internet piracy is bad but the way big business make it out to be is far from the truth.  We don’t need to give Hollywood complete control of the internet in order to stop internet piracy. We just need some self-control.