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I do feel like the piracy is a strawman argument they're using the leverage in laws that eliminate this significant threat to their business model, a threat that's exponentially more serious than any they've fought and then embraced in the past.
Ben Heckendorn (@benheck on Twitter) has said it best on the effect it would have. "SOPA: Ever try for YouTube revenue sharing? It's hard proving you have a right to your own videos. Now imagine that for everything you post."
It's bad enough, I've made the decision to step away from television, movies, music, and video games. They don't get any more of my money. "No second chances," as the Doctor has said.
Sadly, Wil, this means I will miss out on your future acting work, but if they insist on using piracy's collateral damage to kill the single best content delivery system ever devised, I'm going to have to insist that they no longer have any claim to the money in my wallet.
And if they do succeed in killing the internet as a content delivery engine? I'll find something else to entertain myself with.
Today the US Senate is considering legislation that would destroy the free and open Internet.
“Why is it that when Republicans and Democrats need to solve the budget and the deficit, there’s deadlock, but when Hollywood lobbyists pay them $94 million dollars to write legislation, people from both sides of the aisle line up to co-sponsor it?” --Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian on CN...
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