SOPA, Google and piracy – what to do?
SOPA has got everyone talking over the past two months, with many heated and emotional debates on piracy, censorship and ignorance. SOPA is a bill in the US that, if passed, would allow the U.S. Department of Justice to seek court orders against websites outside United States that have been accused of infringing on copyright. This bill would also restrict search engines from displaying links to illegal websites within the SERPs – something I think we should all welcome.
Having said that, could Google have done something earlier – which in turn would have made the need for the bill irrelevant?