> To people in the movie business, piracy is like that. It threatens to shut down the entire industry and put hundreds of thousands of good honest people out of

> To people in the movie business, piracy is like that. It threatens to shut down the entire industry and put hundreds of thousands of good honest people out of work. I appreciate the different point of view, but the people in the movie business (at least the ones that write legislation) are not acting in good faith as you're making them out to. "Honest folk trying to put food on the table" doesn't square with "subvert governemnt to produce PR material for you, then suppress that material when it says the wrong thing": https://juliareda.eu/2017/09/secret-copyright-infringement-study/ https://juliareda.eu/2017/09/secret-copyright-infringement-s... > protecting the little guy I don't for one second believe those in charge are deluded enough to consider themselves "the little guy": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_cross-ownership_in_the_United_States#Ownership_of_American_media https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_cross-ownership_in_the_U...