Economist, Dean Baker, thinks piracy concerns are overblown: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3482767 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3482767 That said,

Economist, Dean Baker, thinks piracy concerns are overblown: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3482767 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3482767 That said, it's generally not in the economic interest of the incumbent media businesses (particularly the TV Networks, a.k.a. media aggregators) to present the case against the SOPA/PIPA legislation. This is because they are trying to protect their existing revenue streams that come from business models which rely upon traditional media distribution, the internet presents a challenge to this. When (if) the protests against SOPA/PIPA are presented, it's always balanced against the "fact" that "everyone agrees piracy is a problem that needs to be addressed".