An opinion on how the SOPA argument should and should not be presented

Merely an opinion piece from me related to a recent video that's been making the rounds. Feel free to watch the video and make up your own mind - http://youtu.be/WJIuYgIvKsc

Ashton Kutcher's blog on SOPA - http://t.co/BrdkfzmZ

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• SOPA
• Stop
• PIPA
• Protect IP
• WTF is
• Totalbiscuit
• Totalhalibut
• Cynicalbrit

[NLFonsseals]

Guys, we have o stop ACTA! That's way more dangerous now!

[MrJgreenwell2000]

FUCK SOPA.

[TheScroofie]

i hope that SOPA and ACTA THE FUCKING UNDERSTANDS HOW MANY FUCKING PEOPLE HATES THEM!

[AgOdorControl]

comment removed by ACTA taking away your rights since 2011

[kevinbishop89]

if they pass sopa they will have a lot of suicides in the world of not it will go more of a steady level

[optimusrocks1]

I bet the illuminati has something to do with it

[optimusrocks1]

@TwoGamingPandas It seriously is

[optimusrocks1]

Sto- Comment Removed by ACTA

[TheViolander]

@TheRealDezuman They are different in many aspects, but ultimately it comes down to copyright infringement and the potential of these acts to stop this crime.

Digital and real-worlds copies are just different ways to carry out this particular crime.

And to compare how they are fundamentally different is taking this argument completely off tracks and does not relate to my initial point at all.

[TheViolander]

@TheRealDezuman 2nd post: I think anything is capable of anything it is really up to the personal preference of any organization of how much crime to commit for the search of profit.

And as answer to your 2nd question - an influential corporation has no incentive to spend any amount of money to shut down a minor competitor. (such projects have negative Net present value)

[TheViolander]

@TheRealDezuman to your first post I say this - you are saying how things are and because of that they cases are different, that is silly since just because atm it is EASIER to commit alleged crime - does not mean the laws shouldnt prosecute them or make it more difficult.

And digital crime is a lot similar to real-world (the cost argument is invalid because even though there is no marginal cost to producing a digital version - there is still the overall cost of that project)

[TheRealDezuman]

@TheViolander

In the end the problem is that the internet and digital media in general is so vastly different from anything ever before, and has only really exploded during the last ten years or something. As it usually is with new stuff, it spawns new actors and encourages innovation. However the Old Brontosaurus Corporations, in the purest old-European colonial spirit, ventures to stake out their claims with the catchphrase: "We pay the politicians donuts, die SUCKERS!"