Is there anything you need that you cannot find on the web? Just try typing anything in the search box. There will always be answers to your queries. If it displays the wrong answers or if the results come in general terms, try refining your search keywords and you?ll eventually end up happy with what you will get. From needles and pins to jets and spaceships, the internet has them all.
Working on a school assignment or project and you come to a dead end? The internet will keep you moving again in a minute. Keywords may even be longish phrases or excerpts from published speeches. Even those made during the World War II years will instantly pop up to your satisfaction. Plays, poems and stories are available in e-book form or a hardbound copy may be ordered online.
Have you ever wondered how it will be like if we suddenly lose the internet? Even just losing the major websites that we use for our researches such as Wikipedia will definitely slow us down. Sure, physical libraries and similar data archives will be there to take over but we then have to leave our desks to do research.
Recent legislative initiatives in the US Congress potentially imperil the easy access to the web that we now enjoy. The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) bill introduced into the House of Representatives and the Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act (PROTECT IP Act or PIPA) at the Senate propose to summarily prevent access to sites that have been broadly defined to have committed infringement of intellectual property rights or of marketing counterfeit goods. What will happen to the social networking websites such as Facebook, Tumblr and Twitter that everybody now enjoys? Like YouTube, they allow user-generated materials that may violate anti-piracy laws.
In the name of protection of intellectual property rights that include movies, songs and other products of actors, filmmakers, singers and music publishers, SOPA and PIPA agitated and earned the ire of the internet world with its inconsiderate stance. It led to worldwide protests online and offline. With the proposed laws enacted, many websites which are resources for information and materials will be inaccessible for business, domestic and professional purposes. For a simple query like how to replace the battery of a mobile phone, the average citizen may have to access a ?legal? website that charges a few cents for an answer or take a subscription which may only be used once or twice a month. Would it not be absurd, at the least?
If the sizable legislative funds from the entertainment industry successfully pass SOPA and PIPA as enforceable laws, America will be well on its way to becoming the Father of Serfdom and Money-crazy from its original Father of Freedom and Democracy renown.
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Source: http://rawbusinesslaw.com/2012/12/26/is-the-web-for-the-public-or-for-money-web-design/
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