SOPA

Controversy Draft Anti-Piracy Law Online (SOPA) seemed to end when the bill was withdrawn. Pioneers of this bill, Lamar Smith, Congressman from Texas Republican, SOPA after the draft rules draw criticism because it could potentially be a tool in the internet censorship.
 But in addition to SOPA, there are still rules that threaten the freedom of surfing. It is the ACTA rules, or the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. This is a treaty agreement that was initiated a number of countries, namely the United States, European Community, Switzerland, and Japan. The treaty also involves Australia, the Republic of Korea, New Zealand, Mexico, Jordan, Morocco, Singapore, Aran Emirates, and Canada.
Quoting the website of the institute Electronic Frontier Foundation, the actual rules governing physical matter such as drugs. However, there is one that makes the content of Internet activists worry, that the rules regarding the "distribution on the Internet and information technology".
So what harm ACTA? Anonymous hacktivist group to make an analogy, if ACTA is applied in a video uploaded on YouTube.
Suppose you take a cooking class, then you are forbidden to spread information about the prescription obtained in the course. If you provide information about the recipes that you can in the course to your wife for example, then you and your wife could be threatened criminal that stipulated in the ACTA in the country you live.
But what if you live alone? To ensure prescription information is not scattered, then ACTA allows control of you, even family, which clearly threatens the privacy of individuals.
Then what kind of ACTA will be applied on the internet? Citing the pages of Forbes, ACTA enabling law in a number of countries participating to force all internet service providers or Internet Service Provider (ISP) to adopt this rule.
In explanation Anonymous, ISPs will be required to supervise all activities on the internet. So if you receive a shipment MP3 from your friends through Instant Messaging, or upload (upload) existing video copyright (copyright), or send emails that contain content that is copyrighted, then you are in danger of criminal.
ISPs will also check to ensure no material that contains the copyright content to be disseminated, or pirated content. Content that can include music, pictures or videos.
Thus, an Internet company that provides a link to this material was also threatened with the punishment provided for in ACTA. These include video-sharing website like YouTube, Instant Messaging services like Yahoo or Gmail, as well as social networks like Facebook and Twitter.
Because ACTA is considered to threaten the freedom of surfing, a number of institutions such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Anonymous hacktivist groups also continue to campaign to the rejection of ACTA.
Quoted from Forbes, a number of countries have ratified the ACTA called this. In the U.S. alone this rule is still in the process, prior to ratification in the Senate. According to Forbes, ACTA arranged secretly impressed.
For not being transparent, ACTA was opposed by several countries, including Brazil and India. Both countries regard the ACTA will impact on their economies are still in developing stage. This means the product of a country could be threatened if there come other countries that have patent first.
In the U.S., the rejection of ACTA continue to be made. In fact, denial of the petition was already deployed on the internet.
But until now, is not known how far this ACTA process, and can be applied. Also not known whether the closure of a number of file-sharing sites like Megaupload is just a trial to see the public response, before finally ACTA applied.