Billionaires Bunker Shares SOPA Could Kill Small Businesses

Jan. 24, 2012 - PRLog -- There is a level playing field between big and small businesses on the web. However, SOPA could get rid of that even field. BillionairesBunker shares how the said proposed act can do that.

With the Stop Online Piracy Act or SOPA, the government's power to fight online piracy is extended. Guidelines are made stricter and punishments are made harsher. For many, those guidelines and punishments are too extreme. Even the White House thinks so as well.

With its very strict, SOPA can be disastrous to small businesses because the extreme punishments will surely bring fear to online marketers. That in turn will decrease the number of online marketing participants. And further, that will hinder access to free information on the web.

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“The World Wide Web offers a great opportunity for business start-up and expansion. Whether you have a product or a service to offer, you can have it marketed over the web for more visibility but at much lesser cost. However, with SOPA, the web will not be as helpful to small businesses as it is today.”

“SOPA or the Stop Online Piracy Act is a measure to stretch the ability of the government to counter online trafficking of copyrighted intellectual property. Nonetheless, many, including the White House, think that it is too extreme from the guidelines to the punishments.”

“If SOPA is passed, creativity and access of free information will be suppressed. With its strict rules, surely, many sites, to which you can advertise, will be blocked. And if you plan to create a website for your own small business, it will definitely take you much longer to get it working.”

“In other words, SOPA will basically eliminate the level playing field between big and small businesses that you can currently benefit from the web.”

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“The internet has been the great equalizer for entrepreneurs. Small startups can compete with big players on the internet. Government bureaucracy and intervention in the online community would be disastrous not only for small business, but also for the community at large. With such strict guidelines and harsh penalties, creativity would be stifled. Individuals may start to fear that any move they make on the internet may be infringing on someone else’s intellectual property, and therefore not participate. Start-up growth would also be hindered.”

“It would take much more time to get websites up and running. Perhaps, most importantly, freedom of information would be destroyed. Last week, to display just how drastic the results of SOPA would be, websites like Wikipedia went dark. In protest, for 24 hours, Wikipedia essentially turned itself off and users could not access any free information on the site. This is what would happen to numerous websites if SOPA is passed.”

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The web is a very dynamic help to businesses. Particularly, it is a huge aid for effective start-up and expansion. As reported by Forbes though, the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act could prove disastrous to small businesses. And after checking the act's pros and cons, BillionairesBunker believes so too.

However, even if SOPA is not passed, BillionaireBunker warns that online marketing is not as easy as many think it to be. It requires a lot of updated knowledge to produce positive effects. Hence, anyone who plans to start-up or expand a small business should take the time to learn everything about online marketing first, the site added.

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