Topic > |With websites like youtube.com, facebook.com, and instargram.com, people have been able to share with each other more than ever before. Movie scenes, music clips and other copyrighted material are shared every day. We saw this once in 2012, when the US government tried to pass two new laws. Stop online piracy and protect intellectual property. With these two acts the United States government was seeking to enforce strengthened copyright infringement laws that would better protect copyrighted work, but would also limit the free speech online that the Internet has allowed people to have since Internet is available. Large websites like google.com, Wikipedia.com, and reddit.com, along with 115,000 other websites, essentially shut down for a day to protest these laws. With the support of millions of online users and the ability to share this knowledge, the results didn't take long to arrive