While out walking I was thinking about the effects of a law like SOPA. This is one possibility and makes it clear why so many are against it.
The one thing piracy sites do is generate enormous numbers of traffic. People have said that a Tube is more likely to get a million surfers than a paysite. If the tube is 100% legal and like NBC owns all it's content or the license then fine. If it relies on "user uploads" to get that traffic then it's feeding off the content industry to get traffic to sell and earn a living.
If a person, we will call him Traderstock, after a law like SOPA is passed relies on sites like Tubes who accept "user uploads" he might find himself in the dock. Also this goes for sites buying ad space on sites like.
pornbb.org, Forumophilia which has our friend papillon running it allegedly, dumpstersluts.com, thepornlist.net, porno-maniac, fritchy.com, porn-w.org, and so many more it's staggering. So these Tubes and forums won't have anywhere to link to or be able to use any content they like. They will whither and die.
Along with the people leeching off the content, like ad space sellers or traffic guys.
Will it stop free porn? No Manwin and a few others are big enough to buy content, lets face it the cost of content has been driven into the ground. So the places that will benefit are the legal Tubes and legal Forums. They will have to monitor heavily, but the added traffic = profit will soon cover that. Roald will have to employ people to approve every post or filter in the companies that can be talked about and linked to. As most of the file lockers will be long gone, it will be easier.
Traderstock, well he will be between a hard place and a rock.
This post doesn't point fingers at the innocent. The guilty can complain about the wall of text.
