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Originally Posted by Ninjalawyer
I don't think the bill will make it through in its current form (or at least I'm hopeful that that's the outcome).
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So far, the revisions have been fairly minor.
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Originally Posted by Ninjalawyer
I really don't understand how SOPA has made it this far...
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Existing laws are unable to tamp down piracy; thus, those who make a living based off of copyright want stronger tools.
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Originally Posted by Ninjalawyer
experts have testified that it will significantly harm the internet as a whole and anyone reading it would probably find it repellent.
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Many of those experts are techno-libertarians who said pretty much the same thing about the DMCA, or have commercial interests in providing users with whatever information they want, regardless of copyright laws.
For example, the idea that it would "break" the Internet is hyperbolic. At the worst, it might require ISP's to blacklist certain sites, or introduce some discrepancies between US and foreign DNS servers.