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Originally Posted by Robbie
I didn't mean to imply that I was angry at you personally.
It's just that when you're in my shoes, and you read a lot of different people who sort of seem to have an attitude that nothing should be done about piracy...they all start to sort of blur together after a while.
But it wasn't an attack on you. Sorry if it came across that way.
In my position it just makes a person a bit tired of hearing people who aren't having their stuff stolen make broad statements about a law that I've been waiting on for 4 years.
To address your comment "blocking anything from my view is censorship" :
You're not having anything blocked from your view that you can't see by paying the rightful owner.
For instance, right now you can not "see" what's going on in your local strip club. There is a door there, and they won't let us in unless we pay. So are we having it "blocked from our view"?
No, if we pay the cover charge we can go in and see it.
Pirate sites (the ones being targeted very specifically by this law) have NOTHING original on them. It's a "pirate" site.
Meaning that we aren't being censored from seeing anything that isn't already widely available.
That's my point. Hope that makes sense of where I'm coming from.
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It is censorship though, by very definition. It is LITERALLY the definition of censorship.
You're only ok with it because it's convenient for you.
It sucks, but the way the internet is designed and the laws governing copyright put the favor on the side of piracy. Again, that sucks. However I would rather let the favor rest on the side of the criminals than begin infringing on the freedoms of the citizens of this country. Instead of sticking to our virtues and coming up with the right solution to the problem (no matter how difficult it would be to accomplish), we've said fuck it that is too hard and opted to just censor the web.