Companies should not control the internet.
The government are doing a far better job than they think they are. It is a hard balance keeping piracy to a low and keep freedom of speech on the internet.
Corporations want this power to stop new industries and businesses from taking money from them and that is not fair, especially from my point of view. In doing this, SOPA, PIPA and ACTA will take away the majority online freedoms including sites like Wikipedia, Youtube and even Google to a certain extent.
Sure, people put their content online and watch/listen to it for free but studies has shown that if they download content illegally and like it they are more likely to discover and buy new genres and movies that they never would have previously heard of.
Bare in mind this post is a rant so not particularly structured.
I understand if I owned if I owned Warner Bros (and about forty mansions) I would want all the money I can get but as someone who uses the internet as a form of expression I don't want to lose my freedom.
It is a simple fact that piracy will always exist. It's an unstoppable force of human nature. Freedom of expression however is not.
Sony is obviously against piracy yet they sell the CD-R burners that pirates use.
I don't want to get too much into the actual documents as it's becoming and old topic now but I know what they say, what they are supposedly meant to do and I know what they will really do. They are silly.
Pirates is such a cool word.
-Ryan
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