Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)

[That Guy]

when computers used cassette to store data, games were pirated over radiowaves. you can't stop piracy... you can push it to anonymous proxied and fully encrypted networks running 3rd party dns, but you don't want to do that. Cause then you loose your ear to what's really happening, and people with aims far worse than downloading an mp3 can ride the new wave of the 2nd internet everyone is invisible. SOPA let's terrorists win :P


I mean, the last round they told isps they had to keep their logs for 2 years, so guess what happened? they stopped keeping logs of anything.


before photoshop was widely pirated, people had to learn it at work while being paid, now they come in with the skill set, so its easier to run photoshop in your business since the talent is widely available and the business HAS to be on the up and up.

for games its less clear, but plenty of studies show that the biggest music pirates spend the most money on music, people that pirate software wouldn't use it/buy it wasn't free, and piracy of TV, music, and books tends to lead to increased sales. I think games are the only place where companies really lose out, and that's why most PC games now are designed for consoles (ie xbox) in mind, cause the PC profit margin on non java/flash/mmos just isn't there (part of that is due to DRASTICALLY increased budget requirements on a tier 1 title though).

blah blah blah DMCA sucked, SOPA sucks, and you can't make good legislation from a bad concept.

slightly offtopic, so sorry, but it seems like every 3 years some other awful tech laws comes down the pipes that only seems to make sense to people who have no idea what the internet is or does and that LOTS of people and money is is involved in the current e-commerce system they're trying to severely cripple.