Originally Posted by Paul Markham

Not the replies I hoped for. Just the usual anti and pro piracy lot coming in.

Profits fuel innovation. Stealing other peoples innovations, kills profits.

However the way I read SOPA is it will cut the flow of money to the pirates. Will that mean sponsors with affiliates who have sites with pirated content be liable? If advertisers on piracy boards are targeted, what's the difference from a paid advert and a sponsors banner with an affiliates link?

So will sponsors go through all their affiliates, cut out the dead wood, remove the non flourishing branches and closely check what's left?

How will affiliates respond to show that their site is 100% legit?

Will sponsor only content be the rule of the new Internet?

ps
A lot of anti piracy legislation supporters have a vested interest in keeping the status quo. If only to save the work of going through their sites to check they are not linking to pirates. For some it's more, they no longer have to pay for so much they used to have to buy. And some because it will mean they will lose sites, sending traffic, adverting or they own.

Originally Posted by kane

I just want fair. Fair is fair.

I don't want to see Sony use a SOPA type law to take down a little torrent site that is making its owner $50 per month only to then have the takedown be ruled wrong or "bogus" and have Sonly then lose potentially hundreds of millions in copyrights while the site owner lost a few hundred dollars.