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Originally Posted by HansTWN
May I suggest that all of us respect copyright? That would be a big first step to avoid such nonsense as SOPA in the future. Just reading this forum you can frequently hear "piracy for personal use should be ok", "all ebooks should be free", etc you can understand why SOPA came about. The more you push the industry, the more they will try to push back. It is just human nature. If copyrights are being widely respected, SOPA and any future similar legislation will stay dead and burried, as they well should.
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It is not just about respecting copyright here. SOPA is purely control as well as censorship.
These companies supporting the SOPA bill need to move forward to meet the customers, THEIR customers, those who give them reason for existing n the first place.
Instead they sit behind self erected fortified walls on a self erected hill refusing to make any changes to their anachronistic business systems. Fix that and a good deal of casual copyright violations will go away.
Funding for such a change comes from that insanely high budget they expend per annum on copyright litigation lawyers, advertising, falsified statistics and paying for US senators election campaigns.
The more they sit on their collective fat behinds and pontificate, sue, lie and bribe, the more customers give them the bird and visit darknet alleys.
Do you not think that customers are bushing back as well? They are and that is why these companies are running scared, seemingly paralysed with indecision.
It takes two to tango, the dance floor is empty and the evening is drawing towards the end.