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Originally Posted by sabredog
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.
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It is good that the customers are pushing back --- the problem is when customers are pushing back by going to the darknet. Giving the companies the perfect excuse to try to push such or similar legislation. And that is exactly why they spend such insane amounts on lawyers and lobbyists. All that money could get back to us customers, if there was a general consensus to respect copyright (violated only by people on the very fringe, who don't really matter since they would never be customers, anyway).