since they changed it now only go after foreign websites i can't see it helping porn webmasters and producers in anyway, seems like the bill was made to help big pharma and corps who get their physical goods bootlegged.
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Originally Posted by pompousjohn
If SOPA works the way its promoters are claiming, then I stand to gain quite a bit, since I have accumulated terrabytes of licensed content to fill my legal tubes with and won't have to compete with thieves giving away stolen stuff for free.
But I don't believe it will work that way. Google is already claiming that more than half of the DMCA takedown notices it received last year were competitors trying to gimp each other. So the DMCA, lax as it is is already being abused. Megaupload paid a bunch of artists to endorse them and the RIAA already used its weight to remove legal content from Youtube.
These guys are not playing fair now, and we want to give them bigger guns? No thank you.
Do you think it hasnt crossed anyone's mind to use this kind of legislation to silence political dissent? Or to keep police brutality videos from circulating?
Safeguarding Liberty is more important to me than safeguarding IP, even though IP is my bread and butter.
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