matsuiny2004
Active member
- Joined
- Dec 5, 2011
- Messages
- 384
- Reaction score
- 78
- Gender
- Male
- Political Leaning
- Independent
The unintended consequences will bite those supporters in the ass. Yes, certainly there are pure pirates out there who illegally download and make a profit, there are other who download and use for their private use without compensation to the owners / distributors, and then there are those who download and those downloads are temporary as well as a great advertisement for the artists / distributors. As a result of those downloads or views on YouTube or other sites, they go out and pay and watch those movies, buy the songs, etc... remove that and the majority of those sites and uses of this downloaded content will be gone, and so will the free advertisements for those products.
Secondly - SOPA or any other legal bill passed will not stop piracy. It will simply force sites to fine new creative ways to distribute materials either through a loophole in the law, or bypass it totally. Business is pissing in the wind - what they need to do is embrace the technology and find a way to still make money on it, instead of finding new ways to stop it. They can't stop it just like the Romans couldn't stop Christianity. ('Tis the season after all).
This is bill is anti-business. It's being sponsored by business interests who don't understand how an economy in the Information Age is working. Rather than adapt their business models to the Internet Revolution they're trying to restrain the internet so their past business model can work.
Which it won't.
I know they are hanging onto their old business model like its the apocalypse. Why can;t they just let go and create a new one?
these companies need to listen to their cutsomers more.
It's amazing the strawmen people will come up with so they can continue stealing other peoples property because they somehow feel they are entitled to it even though they refuse to pay for it.
It's amazing how the blind refuse to open their eyes when faced with facts, and will instead keep spouting the same old propaganda lines in order to justify expansion of government power.
Some libertarian you are.
"The Obama administration has joined the ranks of skeptics of the Stop Online Piracy Act. In an online statement released Saturday, three senior White House officials wrote that the administration "will not support legislation that reduces freedom of expression, increases cybersecurity risk, or undermines the dynamic, innovative global Internet."
Obama administration joins the ranks of SOPA skeptics
I've seen no legitimate arguement outside of being pissed that you might not be able to as freely D/L the property of others.