Sopa/pipa

[zongtseng]

Yes, I am well aware of how digital information is encoded and transmitted. My point is that the medium does not make it OK to steal it. Is a great painting just the paper and paint then? Would it be ok to steal that? Or to only pay the artist the cost of the paint and paper? The whole "its just numbers" argument is just an excuse, and one of the weakest ones I've ever heard. You know what makes me really, really angry? The fact that my internet experience may be limited, in even a small way, because of criminals. That's the reality. If people weren't stealing, on a MASSIVE scale, this would never come up.

This bill has NOTHING to do with censorship. Not even a little bit. It is about stopping theft, period. It's a terrible way to go about it, and I don't support it. But I have yet to hear any other ideas. Whether SOPA passes or not, this issue will not go away until some sort of solution is found.