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Originally Posted by troutman
How dare anyone interfere with the widespread theft of copyright material?
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troutman, I'm not sure if you're being serious or just playfully trolling here, but I generally respect your posts, so I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt.
SOPA/PIPA goes way beyond what is necessary to fight copyright infringement. It gives the US government the power, at the behest of the entertainment industry, to shut down entire websites
that aren't even hosted in the US and may not be in violation of US law because they contain or even link to copyrighted material.
I assume you have, at some point, found value in sites like wikipedia or YouTube or even Google. Those services never would have got off the ground if SOPA had been in effect when they first started. There's a reason tech entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley and elsewhere around the world, people who are responsible for creating millions of good jobs, are absolutely aghast at this proposed legislation. It's not about shutting down college kids sharing mp3s over Napster -- it's MUCH bigger than that.