DEVIL'S ADVOCATE MODE: ENGAGEDWell, two things come to mind here....
1. Google
DOES make a shit-load of money from ads on sites that serve up pirated stuff. That is a fact.
2. The DNS blocking portion of the bill, the thing that everyone was supposedly most upset about, has been removed.
So, if we all agree that internet piracy is a bad thing (because we all agree on that, right?
) And if we all agree that it should be stopped, and if the language in the bill that most people were up in arms about has been removed from the bill, then what has everyone chosen as their
new rationale for being against the bill?
Be honest: How many of you have actually taken the time to
READ THE BILL?It's 78 pages long, and some of it is pretty dense with the language of lawyers, but I have personally read the entire thing. Frankly, the majority of the opposition that I've read here and elsewhere seems like fairly uninformed hyperbole.
Something tells me that no matter what kind of law they try to write, if it's going to interfere with people continuing to download (and not pay for) music, movies and games, the reaction is going to be the same.
DEVIL'S ADVOCATE MODE: DISENGAGEDedited: took out specifically named websites from which Google earns money from ads.