SOPA's back, back again...

[Her3tiK]

All these things do is remove any lingering guilt I have over my internet activities. Well, that and [redacted due to NSA spying], but you know how that is.

[Id82]

Nobody wants to buy cds and dvds anymore when you can easily stream them on your computer. I wish they would stop trying to fight change.

[Old Viking]

Most porn isn't copyrighted, right?

[lord gibbon]

Nobody wants to buy cds and dvds anymore when you can easily stream them on your computer. I wish they would stop trying to fight change.

Get used to it. Conservatives and traditionalists always oppose change. It terrifies them. Speaking as a historian in training, every change, from Sumer to the modern day, was opposed. Half of Napoleons enemies fought him just because they felt threatened by the change he was causing. People said the telephone would make criminals much more successful, and that cars would destroy effort. This isn't new. Just like everything else they do, Traditionalist have feared what is different for as long as they have existed.

[KZN02]

I'm suddenly reminded of the repeated failed attempts at stopping Obamacare.

[Her3tiK]

Nobody wants to buy cds and dvds anymore when you can easily stream them on your computer. I wish they would stop trying to fight change.

Get used to it. Conservatives and traditionalists always oppose change. It terrifies them. Speaking as a historian in training, every change, from Sumer to the modern day, was opposed. Half of Napoleons enemies fought him just because they felt threatened by the change he was causing. People said the telephone would make criminals much more successful, and that cars would destroy effort. This isn't new. Just like everything else they do, Traditionalist have feared what is different for as long as they have existed.

That issue, specifically, does carry its own issues for the related fields (games, movies, music), though that's an issue for another thread.

[PosthumanHeresy]

What's funny is, if it passed, we'd quickly see the music industry tear itself a new asshole. Think about it: how common is it for big names to have cover songs? Let's skip over Manson. How about Korn's cover of all three parts of "Another Brick in The Wall"? How about Black Veil Brides' cover of KISS' "Unholy"? In fact, any KISS cover. How about Rammstein's covers of "Das Modell" (which is hated by the original makers of the song) or "Stripped"? They'd all start suing each other. Not worth it, but it'd be funny.