SenseOfTumour said:
Exactly. The internet store front scares the shit out of them. You only have to look as far as Valve/Steam to see it works. They've made an entire fleet of golden yachts full of cash, worth of money.
But like you said, they don't want money. They want the control. They can't control online storefronts, meanwhile they can control what is released in a brick and mortar store. That shelf space costs money, and stores want to carry what people will for sure buy. Meanwhile digital space costs next to nothing.
So anybody can put anything up for sale. Bands might start to think, 'Why do I need a record label?' when they can put stuff online for sale themselves for dirt cheap. So instead of adapting or finding a way to co-exist, which is the financially intelligent decision, they're going to fight. The entertainment industry has chosen the path of most resistance and are intent on killing the internet, or they're going to damn die trying.
And the government is more than willing to please them, because who funds these campaigns?
On another note, what scares me most about SOPA is probably the utter lack of media attention. I've yet to see it on any news source on TV. Or on the radio. Because the media is all part of these huge conglomerates, which are the ones pushing SOPA. So they don't want to inform people of it. The media is no longer the watchdog of the government. And that's frightening.
