Stop SOPA? By Jamie Blinder Do you feel safe on the Internet? Do like current freedoms on the Internet and how you can say whatever you want? What if that was suddenly removed? There’s a new dog in town. This thing called SOPA. SOPA if passed will affect our lives and how we use [...]
by Brian Krutzler According to Dictionary.com, a pirate is a person who robs or commits illegal violence at sea or on the shores of the sea. A pirate is commonly associated with stealing gold. Piracy is the practice of stealing. Piracy is also defined as the unauthorized reproduction or use of a copyrighted book,recording, television [...]
By Torsten Nelson and Kathryn Burek There have been many concerns lately about Internet piracy. There was so much concern actually there was an act created to stop it. This act is called SOPA. This act has the potential to stop copyrighting once and for all but many people disagreed with [...]
by Alec Eckel According to news article from WBZ-TV, there where 17 girls in Massachusetts that had there pictures from facebook put on a child porn site. The article also states that the government already had trouble with the site and the site had already been shut down once. Now they’re trying to shut it [...]
SOPA; Would it affect you? By: Madison Bowen Many people have never thought about what their life would be like if they were limited to the things they can do online. Think about what it would be like if the government had control over what you do on the Internet. You wouldn’t be able to [...]
SOPA: What changes will it bring? By Sara Majercak There has been a lot of controversy over the Stop Online Piracy Act or SOPA. If this bill is passed, it will affect all of our everyday Internet use as we know it. In an article on Townhall.com, “SOPA/PIPA will choke innovation. It will be much [...]
We are students in Frontier Regional School Mr. Murphy’s Information Literacy (Info Lit) class. We are researching SOPA(Stop Internet Piracy Act). This is a response for the blackout that occurred on January 18th 2012. It included the websites Google, Wikipedia,Mozilla, Tumblr, Vimeo, Flikr, Craigslist, and many more. We chose SOPA because it could affect the [...]
If you’re an athlete are you at risk of not being able to play? The article published on Boston Globe.com “Concussion Testing Implemented for Athletes” by Joe Trovato states that there will be mandatory concussion testing for all athletes before they play a “high impact sport.” The test will determine if one has had previous [...]