I'm no SOPA fan to say the least but is this a surprise? Of course they want to shut down torrent sites. That list was probably verbatim a list of people's "Tor

I'm no SOPA fan to say the least but is this a surprise? Of course they want to shut down torrent sites. That list was probably verbatim a list of people's "Torrent" folder in their browser's bookmarks. The Internet should be free and there are many out there trying to limit the freedom we've come to enjoy and it really is a terrible thing. But let's get real here. These sites are total copyright infringers. There's no two ways about it. I admit I use them to get music and movies like the next guy but it's still not all kosher. They really are just trying to save their business which is looking more doomed each day. I almost feel like people who believe that the big corporations are trying to take freedom away are tinfoil hat sport conspiracy theorists. It's simple really. Online sharing is cutting hugely into profits so they want to stop it. They've found a way to do that but unfortunately that way has a lot of unintended side effects. I'll probably be labelled an RIAA sympathizer but I'm really not. I'm like all of you. I want to keep the freedoms the Internet affords us. I'm just looking at this realistically. BitTorrent and p2p protocols have their legitimate uses but shutting down the outlets that give us access is the only way the RIAA sees they can stop piracy. It sucks. If only the RIAA would invest as much time and energy into developing something that could make piracy obsolete or some process thats a better option for obtaining copyrighted material as they do in filing law suits and supporting SOPA we could keep the freedom. But let's not pretend that getting music and movies through torrent sites is on the up and up. It's one thing to share with your friends but this basically large scale black market distribution.