Haha, again with the entitlement. You think everything is made for your convenience? I'm sorry it troubles you to drive to the store.
lol...Please, don't act so entitled. Just because the music is out there for free doesn't mean you should get it for free. You don't make up for it just by buying band merch, you still stole their music. . .
This is a classic fallacy within the internet age - the idea that something can be 'stolen' - which implies a loss of product.
Digital media cannot be stolen. Even the argument that every unlicensed, unauthorized user of digital media represents a lost sale (or 'stolen' profit) is tentative, at best. Countless studies have been done that show the overwhelming majority (some 80% or higher) of all unauthorized/unlicensed users would not have purchased the material - even if they had the money.
With those same studies - a number also suggest that those who do buy the digital media do so by sacrificing the purchasing of labeled apparel, downloadable content, etc. Thus - it suggests that gamers often spend as much of their discretionary income as they physically can on games - and there is not some wealth of money waiting to be extracted.... if only people couldn't illegally download.
About the best argument that can be made is that license-key generators are illegal because they allow one to acquire a finite resource owned and controlled by an entity/individual (since there are only so many valid license keys and in this day and age they are supposed to be unique or otherwise tied to an account). Thus - using one of those could realistically be said to equate to theft of a 'physical' resource.
Which means most of the media 'hacked' to work without license key authentication would be unaffected.
Don't upload or download illegal stuff and you don't have to worry about sopa
The problem with SOPA is that it's written by people who do not understand the Internet or what it's become. They side with lobbyists who tell them how to write portions of the bill and then stitch it all together, having little idea what it's actually going to do.
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2. Some don’t care to educate themselves.
A few are, frankly, *******s about it. Like Iowa Representative Steve King, who had this to say during a debate over SOPA:
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Or North Carolina Representative Mel Watts, who opened his defense of SOPA by stating “I’m not a nerd,” then went on to dismiss the notion that having a strong understanding of technology is necessary to comprehend the bill.
Or California Representative Maxine Waters, who told the Chairman to use his gavel a little more during the debate over SOPA to move things along quicker, because all this talk over legislation that will have a massive impact on all of our daily lives was really just wasted time.
There are plenty of Congressmen and women who oppose SOPA and Protect IP. It’s the ones who just don’t give a shit about the fact that they’re making a decision that will hugely impact us all in ways they can’t begin to understand that we need to worry about."
It would be a laughing matter if this were a comedy series.
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The law doesn't stop piracy.
All it does is allow the blocking of DNS - which can be easily bypassed by the script-kiddie underhive.... by using VPNs... and by using foreign servers.
Basically - if you're an average person trying to use the internet for the exchange of ideas and information - any one of those ideas can be used to shut down entire sites because someone posted a picture of Tinkerbelle.
While these all discuss older versions of the law - its fundamental problems still exist. Blocking DNS doesn't really have much impact on those who are used to taking 'the road less travelled' and working with torrent files and discrete networking concepts. It just gets in the way of people who do things they way they are supposed to be done.
