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Originally Posted by DamianJ
So you have no rebuttals for any of the points raised by the DNS experts? OK.Didn't think you'd be able to offer much on that front.
Ah, so you just pretend there are no DNS experts saying there will be problems and*that* is your counterpoint?
I bet you didn't do well at debating at school.
Read the articles. No one is saying the internet will be gone in a puff of smoke. Point/counterpoint. That is how you have an interesting discussion.
Or a law designed to give the government control to censor the internet for Americans. Look, China already has this censorship. Has it stopped piracy there? Why do you think giving control of DNS to the government will fix the problem here? Do you really think that pirates are just going to stop? You don't think they will do something else? ftp servers begat IRC which begat usenet which begat napster which begat bit torrent which begat file lockers. Pirates have a good history of adapting.
I think everyone in the world would support a law that just did that. SOPA isn't that law.
The real problem is that THERE IS NO TECHNOLOGICAL SOLUTION TO PIRACY. None. Nothing will work.
What needs to happen is that people need to stop wishing it was 1990. It isn't. Things have changed. You need to find a new way to get people to pay for your product. Period. It seems that some people are managing to make millions from releasing their stand up comedy. What can you learn from that?
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Damian, I dont need to rebutt your DNS experts saying some issues might occur. I am rebutting YOU saying that SOPA will break the internet.
Then you bring up China which as you say already operates a similar system - and look the internet still works !!!
Why is the internet not "broken" ?
This is the problem with wrapping dramatic language around your carefully chosen "facts". It just sounds silly.
Lets go back to China - you ask if it has stopped piracy there. I dont know what effect their particular laws have had on piracy and neither do you. I do know however that the Chinese govt are more concerned with the control of politically sensitive information than the distribution of stolen content. So the control of website content via DNS and China has a bearing here, but has nothing whatsoever to do with piracy.
However I think your biggest mistake is your claim that "nothing will work" is so very immature.
You are still claiming that society should not legislate to uphold what the right thinking majority require because the problem will not be completely iradicated by the legislation. Think about it Damian - how many laws achieve this utopia ?