OK so I finally read Wikipedia's take on the bill (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act). At

OK so I finally read Wikipedia's take on the bill (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act). At this point that no matter what happens we're screwed. I see why the people in industry want to back SOPA. As a copyright holder of something that costs a lot of money to make of course you want to make sure someone's not getting it for free. I feel that laws like this could be way too broad and definitely hurt companies that rely on general Internet content like the people making noise against it (Google, Facebook, and Twitter for example). I couldn't imagine the chilling effect this would have for those companies to come up with ways to remove the offending content. This would eat into their profits and make their products less useful. On the other hand I don't know what the solution to this problem is. Should the companies just accept that a certain amount of piracy is going to happen? Should they charge less for content and make it more accessible? That may be a feel-good thing to say but to create the high production values for your favorite movie today costs money. As to why I think we're screwed I imagine that if (when?) this bill doesn't pass then the companies will enact even more draconian options to curb piracy or copyright infringement.