The next installment on this blog will begin to look at the Stop Online Piracy ACT, or SOPA for short, and how the comics world is reacting to it. This first post will look at up and coming writer Patrick Shand and his opinion on the subject.
-Shand acknowledges the argument that the average uninformed citizen would have: that the only reason people care about SOPA is that they do not want to lose the endless source of entertainment that is the internet. However, Shand shows that this is not the case as the act would basically make the work he and millions of others have done to present their thoughts to the world through the internet would be lost.
-Shand acknowledges the problem of Piracy that SOPA is trying to prevent. He illustrates this using the example of a comic he contributed to, The Grimm Fairy Tales: Holiday Edition 2011, and how it is easier to find a pirated version of the comic than anything else.
-Shand points out that social media sites such as Tumblr, Facebook, and many others would be shut down immediately by this act to prevent piracy.
-Shand also points out that although piracy can occur, the internet allows the average citizen to be informed about the world around them.
This controversy caused by SOPA is relevant to my life and the lives of others because the internet has become such a standard part of society. We have become so accustomed to the internet that a radical change of how it functions could radically alter our society as well. Further research can be obtained by looking at the opinions of more people and the actual components of the act itself.
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