Whether SOPA and PIPA would have actually worked is an open question, but whether they were ever even necessary to begin with is even more important

Posted on January 23, 2012 by maxkeiser| 5 Comments

Does Online Piracy Hurt The Economy? A Look At The Numbers

The data simply doesn’t suggest that piracy is causing any serious economic harm to the US economy or the entertainment industry. Heavy-handed approaches to preventing piracy are wrong-headed and reveal a dangerous level of short-term thinking on the part of both lawmakers and industry leaders. Worse, the impetus to crack down on piracy is based largely on industry data that wildly inflates the problem:

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5 Responses to Whether SOPA and PIPA would have actually worked is an open question, but whether they were ever even necessary to begin with is even more important

kdt | January 23, 2012 at 10:40 am |

what did sopa /pipa bring to the table that was not there before? not tools or the arrests and take downs we have seen would not have happened. so what are they after ? NO RESPONSABILITY FOR THERE ACTIONS when they atack compeeting business. they are tring to set presidence for this inforcement model wich will then be used to do exactly the things seen as “unintended consequences” this is the hegelian dialectic at work :1 present or create a problem ,2 make shure all solitions contain the step desired for scocity to take , 3 sit back and wach the sheeple do your work!! the corect responce to someone giving you the choice between two evils is 1 to reject the problem as presented , 2 punch out the swindler then hold him down and , 3 yell for tar and feathers!! (this lets the next town over know not to listin to any thing the scum sucking p.o.s. says)
aaah | January 23, 2012 at 11:34 am |

SOPA, PIPA & SCROTAL SUCK should not even be an issue.
This is that authoritarian shit-eating bullshit that is a distraction
and fucked-up tangent to human evolution.
The world needs to clean up the shit in this video that’s posted
and forget about the fucking authoritarian bastards sick agenda
caused by insecurity that want to control the internet,…
Again mis-placed squandering of resouces -nothin new.
The fuckin US Media should just hire North Korean journalists
because they’re stuck on that kindergarten level of propaganda…
“Duh this is Dana Bash of CNN reporting
I’m a sick cunt who can’t squirt so I’m backed up therefore
I have to take out my frustrations on Ron Paul.”
That’s how CNN reposts -the sick fucks.
Is CNN fuckin the North Korean media now or what!!!

http://youtu.be/HQ2VXJpQ2Uw
Danny Cunnington | January 23, 2012 at 12:32 pm |

This looks like a massive fail for the Bilderberger steering committee. The last meeting in Switzerland was focused on internet censorship and a forcing up of the oil price to bankrupt the west. Hollywood is basically propaganda so they are just following orders in trying to demand ridiculous legislation. Stopping piracy was never the objective. They want internet censorship and piracy is just the false pretext.

The oil price hasn’t collapsed because of the theatre sabre rattling against Iran. Bob Chapman said yesterday that the US in bankrolling any country’s military costs to join in.
This basically means that all other NATO involvement is a mercenary force.

Not to be outdone. The IMF have caused a massive strike in Nigeria to stop oil exports and there’s weird operatives dressed up as muslims attacking Christians and burning churches.

The oil price is totally rigged at around a $100 and demand means it will probably halve to $50 sometime soon. This will cause a glut of unwanted Dollars internationally. The Iranian oil embargo has mostly failed. It’s a US unilateral sanction so nations are not obliged to follow it. All the eastern nations will keep buying it outside the Dollar. The only losers will be the US and the EU which is exactly what they want.
PM Bug | January 23, 2012 at 2:32 pm |

SOPA and PIPA appear to have been thwarted for now, but the war isn’t over. Lamar Smith (R – Texas), SOPA sponsor, is still pushing his H.R. 1981 (Protecting Children from Internet Pornographers Act of 2011) bill that would require ISPs (the folks you contract with to access the internet) to record everything you do on the internet for over a year. It’s just as odious as SOPA.
gold bullet | January 23, 2012 at 3:09 pm |

Those who can, innovate.

Those who can’t, legislate.

And those who can’t legislate, buy the legislators.

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