SOPA vs The Internet

Today is a pretty apt day to write about this subject. On January 18th 2012, the internet is making a stand, a final stand, against a bill looking to get passed through the US congress, brought into existence with the express purpose of censoring everything people know, love and take for granted on the internet.

The Stop Online Piracy Act was introduced to the House of Representatives as a means of tackling the growing and leeching problem of piracy over the internet from sources outside of US jurisdiction.

If passed on January 24th, SOPA will essentially grant a dozen US corporations control over the internet so their profit margins take less of a hit. Under SOPA, US ISP’s will be forced to enact DNS (Domain Name System) blocking, the same tactic used by Iran and China to censor their people.

Minecraft Review

Minecraft is a difficult game to begin to explain. It has no clear story or narrative to carry the gameplay, it’s graphics aren’t up to the shiny standards of most PC titles, you have no (helpful) entourage of NPC’s in which to support your single player adventures and no two worlds are the same due to the game generating uniquely random maps.