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Originally Posted by MakingItPay
Destroy a revolutionary technology? Hardly. Reduce piracy? Hope so. As a content producer, I say if the internet can not survive without people stealing stuff, then kill the fucker. Sounds like lots of folks here love the revolutionary technology that allows you to steal so freely with costs of chasing and prosecuting too high to create much fear.
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It still amazes me how people (both in this thread and in general) that go on about piracy and how despicable it is, how it violates their rights, how it's an act of injustice, seem to be ok with committing other acts of injustice as long as it might benefit them.
No one ever said that the internet was made for piracy or couldn't survive without people stealing stuff. Most common household objects can be used to commit murder. Should be get rid of them to put an end to murder? Cell phones can be used to cheat in school or to call a drug dealer. should we get rid of them in order to end cheating at school and in order to put an end to drug abuse?
I understand people get angry when they see something threatens their livelihood and I understand they tend to overgeneralize when they're angry, but you shouldn't let your anger cloud your judgment. Fighting injustice begins with not committing or supporting any acts of injustice yourself.
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2257 was going to put us all in jail too. Remember?
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Apples and oranges. When 2257 came along, civil liberties groups, privacy groups, the electronic frontier foundation, Google, Microsoft, Twitter, Zynga, Reason, venture capitalists,... didn't come out to warn about its dangers. Why? 2257 is nothing compared to SOPA. 2257 puts a bureaucratic burden on US based adult entertainment companies. SOPA is an overly broad set of rules that can easily be abused.
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Will this law pass? Highly doubtful.
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I hope you are right. Even if it doesn't pass, it's still useful to remind people of why the whole thing was a bad idea.
This reminds me of a recent HuffingtonPost article about Ron Paul.
Years ago, Ron Paul says, a congressional colleague slipped a laminated piece of paper into his hand. It was a passage from Elie Wiesel's 1970 book, "One Generation After,"
In it, a child asks the one "Just Man" why he walks the streets of Sodom railing against wickedness, when he knows it is hopeless. The man replies: "if I continue my protest, at least I will prevent others from changing me."