I don't agree with pirating software or online content. I personally think it's wrong and I have had to deal with people doing such things with content I have created over the years. Yes, it's annoying and bothersome, however, the laws that exist today have allowed myself and others to protect and share what we create.
What I don't agree with are laws that provide for "a ton of prevention for an ounce of cure". These proposed acts in their current form may have an impact on addressing software and content piracy, but they will also create problems when such tools would be abused. To think that these acts would not be abused by those who would wield such power is, I am afraid, rather naive. One only has to explore human history to see that such abuses, regardless of honorable intentions, always occur and cause great harm.
We can create better language and tools for enforcing protections for content, software, intellectual property, etc. We need not be so lazy and blind. There is a happy middle ground that can be found here. Many people, like myself, who create online content, have found that middle ground, now it's time for those in power to realize it too. The current legal framework has accountability and due process for a reason, to prevent abuse and that needs to be preserved.
Power exists to provide people with freedom and justice, not to provide those with the power to potentially silence those of differing opinions and ideals. It's high time that everyone accept that reality and work to preserve something that we are on course to loose, human decency. Without it, we are lost.
#StopSOPA #StopPIPA #Protest #freespeechisallwehave
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Millions of Americans oppose SOPA and PIPA because these bills would censor the Internet and slow economic growth in the U.S.. Two bills before Congress, known as the Protect IP Act (PIPA) in the Sena…
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