“Online piracy is like fouling in basketball. You want to penalize it to prevent it from getting out of control, but any effort to actually eliminate it would b

“Online piracy is like fouling in basketball. You want to penalize it to prevent it from getting out of control, but any effort to actually eliminate it would be a cure much worse than the disease.” https://slate.com/business/2012/01/sopa-stopping-online-piracy-would-be-a-social-and-economic-disaster.html https://slate.com/business/2012/01/sopa-stopping-online-pira... When I was a poor college student I pirated a lot of stuff. Now that I'm a wealthy engineer I've gone back and bought all the stuff I pirated and wanted to keep watching or listening to.