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Originally Posted by Ron Bennett
The internet has always been regulated. Even more so prior to 1990 when ARPA, and later 1990-1995 when the NSF, called the shots.
As for on-line piracy ... there's lots of case law dating back to the 1980s when BBSes were very popular and facilitating file trading.
In short, much of the on-line legal issues that seem new aren't.
Ron
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Don't talk above their pay grade. Obvious to most an unregulated Internet would require Governments to pass laws saying so. Obvious to most is once you have laws pertaining to online, they have to be updated to keep up with technology.
Like every other law is.
Still the obvious misses most people here.
All SOPA does is apply existing to laws to people who publish their work in the US in a way that makes it harder to penalise them. If you want to continue pirating, you're free to do so. Just make sure your site isn't targeted at the US, that you don't steal US property and have the backing of US companies. So you don't break existing US laws.
Regulation exists online.
No regulation would need laws to be passed exempting online.