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Old 01-19-2012, 06:50 PM   #1
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LXer: SOPA a controversy against the Open Source world

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By now you might have already read a couple of articles on SOPA and PIPA; the controversial and now widely notorious bills that hammer the freedom of internet. In this article we shall investigate how SOPA and PIPA negate the spirit of opensource community and virtual communities at large.

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I agree that it poses a very real threat to FLOSS, as indeed it is user-contributed. A single link uploaded by some spammer will take down a project. It is an extremely dangerous bill.
 
  


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