Tech | January 07, 2012 | 2 comments

Yes, We Get It… SOPA is Bad. Now How Do We Deal With It?

source: http://shoryuken.com/2012/01/04/yes-we-get-it-sopa-is-bad-now-how-do-we-deal-with-it/

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"If we’re going to start throwing stones at this thing, it’s better to actually do so than discuss about how we’re aiming them for months on end. It doesn’t help that the world now-a-days seems populated with strictly ideologues yammering back and forth with no meaningful progression to any sort of debate. It’s tiring to hear about how terrifying SOPA is, because I’ve already heard about it dozens upon dozens upon dozens [hyperlink] of times. How many more petitions am I going to sign until I start to realize that typing out my name really isn’t the decisive masterstroke needed to suddenly clutch out the battle? If you really want to try and stop this thing then let’s look at how we can amend it, because otherwise we’re just spinning our wheels and getting nowhere.

SOPA motives, how it accomplishes them, and where our issues lie:

A) SOPA wants to be a giant cannonball to Piracy. It wants to give serious consequences to anyone who feels that redistributing copy-written material is okay. The entertainment industry loses millions of dollars every year due to piracy, and the bill is an attempt to directly stop that. People feel SOPA’s secondary purpose is to kill streaming, or at least control it, before things like TV go the way of the Do-Do. Blah, blah, blah, you know this.

B) SOPA make it illegal for you to stream un-licensed material without explicit permission. It goes a further step beyond legal action by the offended party, and into realm of felony. Again, you know this.

C) The major complaint against SOPA is that it would burn Youtube asunder, and kill freedom of speech right where it stands. Besides the..."
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