by Fahmida Rashid for eWeek.com 1/22/12
(http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/SOPA-PIPA-Online-Piracy-Lead-Weeks-Security-News-651755/)
This article was about all the recent controversies and issues over the last week regarding internet piracy that have led the nation's news. It strongly discusses the bills of SOPA and PIPA and the impact that they have had on popular internet sites such as Wikipedia in the last week. The article also talks about the incident with hackers in Zappos.com last week. It sums up the huge issues regarding the internet that have arose in the last week.
The context of this piece is at the end of a week of huge, hard-hitting news in the internet world that has had a profound impact on the country.
The purpose of this article was to sum up all of these issues in one short article.
The audience of this piece is anyone who has followed the issues this week or is in anyway interested in them.
Rhetorical devices:
- logos- The article includes many quotes and insider information. It cites the exact sources of the hacks, as well as the people and sites involved.
- Process Analysis/Cause and Effect- The article goes chronologically through how each event happened and then what proceeded it, each event leading into the next.
This article semi-accomplished its purpose. It used too many technical phrasing and words, and a lot of the information went way over my head, being that I am not very familiar with the situations. I was hoping for an article with more of the basics of SOPA and PIPA and this article wasn't for that.
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