There is a new bill that has been introduced in the House of Representatives last month that could damage the Internet as we know it.

SOPA, or the “Stop Online Piracy Act”, was designed with good intentions in mind. The goal of the bill is to force ISP’s and DNS providers to remove entries of websites or block access to websites identified as allowing piracy to take place via court orders from the Justice Department.

Many companies that provide DNS services (the services that translate a website url such as www.mytechexperts.com to its servers IP address) do not want this to pass as it forces them to police their DNS entries. DNS providers state that the way this bill is currently written will cause a lot of damage to the DNS system that everyone uses which could potentially make it unreliable.

While DNS providers agree something needs to be done about piracy on the internet as it is clearly hurting artists, production companies, software providers, etc. they feel that this bill is going about it in the wrong manner.

There are many other opinions on the implications of this bill as well ranging from the stability of the DNS system as stated above, to the security of the United States Internet services, to possible job loss created by US DNS companies moving overseas to avoid such laws. It appears at this point that this bill has too many problems with it to become a law..

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For the past 7 Months Yahoo! has been busy working hard on improving the way their E-Mailing services are setup claiming to be 2x faster than before.  Email messages and attachments come and go at high speed so no more waiting 10+ minutes to send/receive Email.   With the latest new and improved spam protection Yahoo! Mail on average blocks more than 15 billion spam messages daily.  For anyone who receives a lot of spam, this is good news!  Yahoo! Mail also now enables its users the ability to send and view videos and slideshow pictures right in your inbox via Flickr, Picasa, and YouTube.  So no more will you have to click a link with the worry of mistakenly clicking on an infected website link.  A huge improvement I feel is the ability to now check your email from any mobile device with web capabilities.  Before users could not check their email without third party software, but now it is made possible and easy!  Also you can quickly reply to your facebook notifications and email as well which I believe is really cool.

Yahoo! is rolling out the update to its users in the next few weeks but if you want to give it a go now visit Here and enroll in the beta program.