Originally Posted By: Nick R
Originally Posted By: uc50ic4more
Originally Posted By: Artem
I can see how it would maybe bring some security
Big Brother always offers security.
The worst part is, it wouldn't even be "big brother". It would be music labels, movie studios, the MPAA and RIAA, who get the say. All they have to do is complain that a site is "infringing" and bam, it gets shut down. That means that if one of BITOGs users linked to a youtube video with a song on it, Helen would be held responsible for deleting it. That would mean that every single post would have to be screened. On every website. All the time. Because under the current DMCA, the sites are not held responsible for users posting stuff, as long as they make "a reasonable effort to remove it".
The entertainment industry wants this bill to pass, so people will maybe go see a few more hollywood movies. And they use these ridiculous claims of how piracy kills jobs. They are assuming that every single person who downloaded a song, movie, or game, would have purchased it otherwise. That's false, because most people who downloaded it would not care enough to buy it otherwise. So they are massively inflated numbers.
EXACTLY NICK!
The intended consequence of SOPA is that in order to even use copyrighted material with fair use, they'd want you to pay for it.
It would be akin to you having to pay the New York Times if you gave your friend a copy of the paper you purchased, to read it.
