How Did Martin Luther King Jr Use Online Piracy Laws

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ENG The King Martin Luther Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. a huge contributor to the civil rights movements of America in the 1920’s. He’s always put his life on the line for the betterment of others. He goes down in history with the likes of people like Mahatma Gandhi, and Nelson Mandela. All strong figures who played huge parts in history for their countries and the entire world. Dr. King had strong views on what was okay and what wasn’t. Instead power hungry people are putting in unequal rules and running the government to their tune no their citizens. This led Dr. King to a tragic life of having to be the one who stood up to a whole nation of people that wanted to push a whole race into the dark and pretend like they were animals. In…show more content…
Online piracy laws. A bill called SOPA the Stop Online Piracy Act. An PIPA the Protect IP Act, two laws used to stop the user to user sharing freedoms that we all were born with. And the censorship of all internet. If your government doesn’t like the Yankees, they could actually legally if this law is passed shut the site down for all U.S citizens to access it. This being a federal law it is enacted all over the country. The online piracy law that is intact right now states we can only download a copy of something we already have in our possession. Then we must delete it after a twenty-four hour period. This was created because the money grubbing rich media tycoons weren’t making record-breaking profits off of sources of knowledge for students and scholars alike. This law affects every kid, parent, scholar, college student, entrepreneur and every citizen in the U.S., have you ever wanted to read a book but didn’t have it. Your friend does and wants to give you it so he copies it and puts it online for you to download. One thousand other people download it and your friend is now looking at ten years and a five hundred thousand dollar fine. The benefits are for the media tycoons who give their info out to the minority for free, celebrities and rich people, but then get mad when we share it with our friends, mad with jail time and more money than we could ever dream of having. With penalties getting…show more content…
The rich media tycoons pay a lot of money to the government and you can say they have them in their pockets. The media tycoon’s are losing a lot of money per year compared to their profit breaking years in the past. Me being a fellow preacher of gaining knowledge, I find this law extremely false and unjust. The online piracy law that is intact right now states we can only download a copy of something we already have in our possession or its theft. But if we find the definition of theft it includes that while the person has something stolen from them they must no longer have what was stolen. But in the case of piracy were only copying the file and sharing it never losing possession of it thus it never being lost or stolen. A young super ingenuous kid Aaron Swartz a computer programmer, writer and political organizer/ internet activist. He had a huge investment in bettering the American people and giving them easily obtainable information. He was a co creator of the RSS feed a huge breakthrough in the world of podcasting and
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