SOPA Postponed "Indefinitely"

[Gindil]

Why did the internet turn into cry babies over a bill that was never, ever going to go through. Its hilarious. I agree that companies should have control and ban sites that are pirating and distributing their property illegally. But the bill needs to be more specificly targetted at the criminals, not just because a film fan writes about a movie he liked and adds a trailer to it without asking permission.

End of the day the internet can not be controlled, its to big. An there are people with skills that enable them to get around any anti pirating bill that is put into effect. The fact is some people want stuff for free and that will never change.

No evidence supports that a company should be given a government controlled monopoly on trying to control digital goods. But thanks for playing.

 

[Strazdas]

is about as much logic as they come up with.
well at least we got one less problem to worry about, for a while.

 

[Manji187]

Well, in my opinion there are only two mains ways to combat piracy:

introduce an authoritarian law

or

introduce a pointless law that creates needless red tape and does noting at all to combat it.

This Smith guy would go with option 1. Just look at the words he has chosen: combat online piracy, cuz American innovators and job creators are under attack.

OH NOES...why these economic terrorists must be pre-emptively targeted before any more jobs are lost....in America. /sarcasm

Online piracy will stop the day the Internet becomes a police state. It worries me that corporate America has sufficient funds to make it so. They just don't have a convincing narrative/ justification for the masses...yet.

 

[Ariyura]

Well, in my opinion there are only two mains ways to combat piracy:

introduce an authoritarian law

or

introduce a pointless law that creates needless red tape and does noting at all to combat it.

This Smith guy would go with option 1. Just look at the words he has chosen: combat online piracy, cuz American innovators and job creators are under attack.

OH NOES...why these economic terrorists must be pre-emptively targeted before any more jobs are lost....in America. /sarcasm

Online piracy will stop the day the Internet becomes a police state. It worries me that corporate America has sufficient funds to make it so. They just don't have a convincing narrative/ justification for the masses...yet.

A lot of us really wonder if their claims of billions of dollars lost is true when most of their revenue is up over prior years.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2012/01/21/does-online-piracy-hurt-the-economy-a-look-at-the-numbers/