Life in these Untidy States: SOPA and Entrapment

[athelind]

Summary:
The biggest supporters of the Stop Online Piracy Act are also the biggest distributors of torrent software, DRM removal software, and other "piracy" tools -- and their sites clearly show step-by-step how to access copyrighted material using these warez.

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They've created the download culture and the "piracy problem" themselves, and are

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[doc_mystery]

The CEO of GoDaddy which is the only ISP backing SOPA started off as a spammer. Apparently he still gets his jollies elephant hunting in Africa when not green-lighting sexist ads on television.

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[kymri]

A little late to the party (though this particular video came to my attention and was spread via my limited presence on Google+), but I thought I'd mention 'entrapment' here. It's a word that's bandied about with great frequency and is usually quite misunderstood.

But here, it is actually used quite correctly. Because entrapment isn't a cop buying meth from a dealer after lying about being a cop. The dealer would have sold to someone else if the cop wasn't there. It's entrapment when the officer (or whatever) gets someone to do something they otherwise would not have done.

Like... downloading music and such from the wilds of the internet. Without CNet and the others actively promoting and profiting from the distribution of this stuff in 'piratical' fashion, the overwhelming majority (I'd guess north of 99.44 percent) of people who have ever downloaded an mp3 or TV episode illegally would not have done so.