- Cpl Crosseyes
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Posted by: prometheus25
Posted by: Cpl Crosseyes
SOPA isn't a good step but it's inevitable that the first step to bringing some order and accountability to the average joe on the internet will be met with huge backlash.
People don't like to be held accountable for their actions on the internet and while SOPA puts far too much accountability on sites like Youtube that are threatened the most and puts the dominant power on companies with armies of lawyers that'll always buy their way out of anything we'll never be able to put accountability on the pirates themselves until we crack down on the anonymity on the internet. Something that won't go over well, but will be needed eventually.
The problem is, SOPA, and other such concepts, go against the free market model that our economy is built on. People don't pirate because they're evil, it is because they don't see the products they take as being worth the prices charged for them. That's the checks and balances system built into an open market economy. By allowing the government to step in on this situation, it is only setting a precedent that facilitates fat-wallet corporations to pass binding legislature to protect their investments, rather than having to sit down at a board meeting and discuss why your consumers feel that you are charging too much.
SOPA is the corporate equivalent of a child holding his breath until his mother buys him candy at the checkout line.
The most irritating part I find in this whole fiasco is just the shear effort and attention SOPA is getting. What about Social Security? The defense budget? Or how about pharmaceutical companies; they have an absolute monopoly on the drugs that are produced in this country, a monopoly worse than Microsoft had when it received an anti-trust lawsuit. I find it asinine that our country gets so worked up over entertainment of all things. I agree. For fear of getting into other connected political things we probably shouldn't talk about too much stuff here. But I will say that I would trust my government any day before a corporation. And that the problem nowadays is the corporations buying out the government to make them too closely related.
Makes the occupy Wall Street look like a better and better movement in my eyes. They've got the right problem nailed down... if no idea what to do about it.