FWIW, another Hollywood content provider who understands the Internet explains very, very thoroughly why SOPA/PIPA are very, very bad pieces of legislation attempting to solve a very, very poorly defined problem.
It is worth noting that under SOPA, as written, this blog could be summarily shut down without notice or appeal. I've talked about Torrent software, and people in the Comments have linked to Fan Vids. The full story of this actually happening already -- no "hypothetical" -- under the far mor lenient DMCA is here.
Oh, and my flame bait for the day:
Any screenwriter who thinks he loses more money to piracy than to Hollywood studio accounting is a child.
(Yeah, somebody got a participation statement last week ...)
There. Go nuts.
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