Multimedia, everyone loves it, although music, movies, video games, pictures etc., we all like it. Usually you would buy music, movies, video games or photos online, from some online media services, such as iTunes or Amazon, etc. or at a movie store or Wal-Mart. Nothing is free, even if you pay 99 cents for a song or $20.00 for a new movie that just came out, it's not free. Sometimes, you might let your friend borrow your movie or something, and then they might lend it to their friend, it might seem like it was free, but it wasn't, you still had to pay for it. There are some people who choose not to pay for their media content and usually get their content over the Internet for free from file sharing sites. There are people who download the content and then there are people who upload the content (illegally) this is called piracy and it is illegal. There are people who believe that media content should be free and shared, there are many places and websites that believe in this and host copyrighted content illegally, but there is this certain website that resides and believes that media content are free and shared, they are called The Pirate Bay. The Pirate Bay or TPB for short is a website launched 8 years ago; is dedicated to providing free multimedia content such as music, movies, video games and software. This support is provided by files called Torrents, which are downloaded and placed in a torrent manager. The use of torrents is based on file sharing; the way it works is that someone downloads a file and then when someone else downloads the file again, it is downloaded by the first person who downloaded it, this is called file sharing. People using their computers......half of paper... The only way to do that is to censor the internet. There are many people who are in favor of SOPA, such as the MPAA (obviously) and the music recording industry. Etc. There are also many other companies and people who are totally against SOPA and also think it is censorship, they are Facebook, Google, Yahoo!, Mozilla, LinkedIn, Twitter, eBay, AOL and Zynga. These companies have petitioned against SOPA, so far 1 million petitions against SOPA have been signed. The hope that the law will not be approved is great, if it were to happen it would affect many companies and projects, such as Google. If SOPA were to pass there would be no more Android, the bill prevents the creation of all open source projects. Let's hope the bill doesn't pass and the websites we all love and use don't fall to the fate of SOPA and be shut down.