You make some good points but calling it piracy and advocating it as a good thing doesn't make sense. At least not to me. I respectfully disagree with you and

You make some good points but calling it piracy and advocating it as a good thing doesn't make sense. At least not to me. I respectfully disagree with you and don't think piracy should ever be legal. That said, there is still a lot to be said for the frivolous lawsuits brought on by media companies as well as the way they basically screw their artists. On that point I think there's a lot of nuance that people miss when they simply say "piracy is alright because media companies (or software companies) are evil". Pirating as a protest to their actions seems to have done more harm than good and we should find ways to disrupt the industry without stealing. On what you said about forgetting this issue after SOPA... I'm glad you bring this up because even though I don't agree with most people here I still think its very worthy of discussion. It's a very complex and nuanced issue that I hope we dig pretty deep into in the future. You made a great observation here - most people, after facing something as big as SOPA will either shift their focus to trying to repeal it if it passes or fall to the temptation to declare a premature victory. I'm really glad this got brought up as I was thinking along those lines too. Hopefully this question gets more traction here.