SOPA

[Treewyrm]

Michael, I merely provide my experience, I do not advocate others to do the same, how they deal with the matter and what reasons they'll have is up to them. Just my experience.

In law copyright infringement is copyright infringement and theft is theft, they aren't the same and aren't interchangeable terms. It is infringement on exclusive rights, unauthorized duplication. Neither they are in common sense because a type of operation involved in two are very different, one is moving and the other one is copying. Because the first would imply that I have to either physically steal a media disc or (in digital terms) to delete source files after copying them. But hey, you're smart enough to know that already anyway.

Regarding the actual subject, that's a damn bad thing. Copyright industry already have pushed a lot of laws, and that's enough really. There is DMCA for one thing. And now they want to get around courts and remove all due process. Anyone truly thinking that's a good idea got to be out of his/her mind. I ain't lawyer, but I actually took time to read that thing, out of curiosity to find out what's the fuss is all about, and frankly that's outright scary considering implications and how broadly it is written to include all kind of possibilities to damage just about anything on internet that ends up with .com, .net, .org and a few others, and then even if you have a domain in a non-US country zone you'd still end up being blocked. What also horrifying is that the bill is written by people who have little to no understanding of how internet works, how DNS works in particular. Those of you who have seen the hearings a few days ago must have seen how horribly incompetent people discussing it were, they even admit they've got not a clue, including lobbysts. But who knows, your little gnome© in avatar might be assisting in copyright infringement. Speaking of the gnome, ain't it a property of Disney corporation? Say bye-bye to fair use.