Intellectual property

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7978853.stm

If the U.S. follows with a similar law, how could you be affected? What is "Intellectual property" and why is it important?

Any time you log on to the computer someone could be watching what your doing and if they make a law like that someone just about has free will to get on to your computer and go threw your stuff when they want to just cause they loged on to there site once. They should not make a law like that casue privace just went and flew out the window.

"Intellectual Property" is something at someone else does and you take it and take all the credit for it without paying for it. or what it says on http://www.wipo.int/about-ip/en/ its: Intellectual property is divided into two categories: Industrial property, which includes inventions (patents), trademarks, industrial designs, and geographic indications of source; and Copyright, which includes literary and artistic works such as novels, poems and plays, films, musical works, artistic works such as drawings, paintings, photographs and sculptures, and architectural designs. Rights related to copyright include those of performing artists in their performances, producers of phonograms in their recordings, and those of broadcasters in their radio and television programs.

its important cause its like stealing from someone and taking all the credit for it.