No, this is most definitely about piracy, and the fact that people seem to think these days that they have the right to steal the work of others. This is not some sinister plot by people in some back room to control the internet. That type of paranoia serves no purpose. In fact, that sort of thinking (and worse, talking about it) only makes MORE people support things like SOPA, because it sounds like delusion.
Our Congress sucks and is inefficient, yes. But they are still people, and they are not there to shut down the internet and/or control it. Again, that sort of "the world is ending stuff" actually HELPS the people supporting SOPA, because it makes the opposition look, well, silly, to be honest. Thats why I say, you need to produce real solutions, to a real problem, and not ignore it or claim it doesn't exist.
There are also different degrees of violation. Of course an entire website shouldn't be banned because someone posted a video of them dancing to a song. But let's take one of the holy grails of the pirates, TPB. That site has NO purpose other than to violate copyright law, absolutely none. I've used it in the past, yes. But I would have absolutely no problem with TPB being delisted from the search engines, for example. It is 100% for illegal activity. Yeah, there's lots of gray areas in between. But a site like TPB, or many others like it, are obviously about copyright violation (they flaunt it, in fact).
Sites like TPB are the reason this problem even exists in the first place. If people remembered what honesty and integrity was, things like SOPA would never even be thought of, let alone get to the voting stage. If and when it happens, it will be the fault of the criminals that steal, period.
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01-18-2012, 05:31 PM
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