#1 Myth: SOPA Stops Piracy

Over the last few months we've documented for you, the growing opposition to SOPA and Protect IP. Those nice little pieces of legislation in the House and Senate that would allow the government to seek orders telling ISP's, ad networks, payment processors to blacklist websites considered rogue and dedicated to infringing activities. The Boston Globe for example, just last week editorialized in favor, stressing the billions in loses due to copyright infringement. We'll ask Cato's Julian Sanchez how much actually gets lost jobs and revenue wise and why these bills, won't stop piracy anyway.

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[skyzefawlun]

Of course SOPA will stop piracy. Making drugs illegal stopped drug use in the US, right?

[moviematcanada]

Piracy was created by the Media companies to get the Government to make it against the law....

The the best way to win a fight is to own both sides of the fight, the same tactic is used in politics....

[Reerrpad5515]

As soon as I saw how uncomfortable he was in that suit, I knew he was a nerd. When he started talking, I could just imagine that voice raging over some game. They found someone who actually knows their stuff. Well done.

[ff8123]

I don't care about your profits, and it enrages me you think I should.

[ScopeSway]

@skyzefawlun yup i cant go up the street and buy weed

[TopRamenx3]

Piracy is indeed created by the media. Disney even created their own piracy system, and tried to justify saying that they were paying artists and such to use their copyrighted material when in reality they were making more money than they should have been giving. Correct? Sounds about right to me especially about our fucked up money grubbing government

[SirMo]

Julian Sanchez pretty much read my mind. Well done. As another point. Look at Valve's Steam, it's a highly successful product which is growing by leaps and bounds every year. Which reinforces Julian's point that if you make it convenient and affordable for people to get content they will gladly pay for it.

[barudzija7]

@skyzefawlun you bring up a good point. know why? because the reason they made drugs illegal is so they can synthesize them and sell heroin pills to us? half the country, old and young are on either pain killers or anti-depressants. they want a piece of the pie and they don't give a flying fuck if they turn us all into junkies. as long as they get paid.

[lilRILripmum]

i hate sope it blockt minecraft.sope go awey me and 10.0000.000000.0000 heta you and more folks

[Bunnystab]

As long as something isn't free, piracy will never go away.

[freebearride]

what is SOPA? sorry I was busy off pirating stuff...