I find my generation's entitlement complexes pretty disgusting, to be honest. I'm not in favor of SOPA and PIPA because I do think that they're massively excessive and give way too much power to the larger interests, but I understand where they're coming from. I don't dispute that there're tons of corporate corruption or gouging from the megabucks powers-that-be, but I don't think that gives people the right to just download whatever they want and never pay for movies, music, comics, etc either. I understand why these companies are scared and I think that they have a valid point, though I don't think these bills are the way to handle it. But the sheer sense of "I'll just download it" that goes around the Internet is disturbing. I realize there are exceptions (things that aren't going to come out in your country with subtitles, stuff that's long out-of-print, etc.) that needs to be accommodated, but I think a lot of this just sounds like the everything should be free attitude that quite frankly, I find kind of disgusting. There's some stuff here that definafely needs to be dealt with, though obviously I'm glad these didn't pass because I don't think they're the right ways of dealing with the issues.
Post #561823
- Author
- Mike O
- Parent topic
- SOPA and PIPA Sorry to make a new topic but this has me scared!!!!
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- https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/561823/action/topic#561823
- Date created
- 31-Jan-2012, 12:57 PM