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SOPA is simply the old-guard clutching at the side of the cliff for dear life as they, inevitably, plummet to their deaths. Next subject.

• cowkingdeluxe 15y ago
  Except they have a lot more resilience than the tech industry does and will eventually get something passed. You can't stick your head in the sand and hope they go away.
  • tomjen3 15y ago
    The problem is that the tech industries are nice guys. We aren't prepared to play to win, we won't bribe politicians, blackmail them with pictures of their affairs when they won't take the bribes, have the law firms involved debared, have the CPS take their children. Spread rumors and destroy the friendships, connections and trusts the lobbiests depend on. That we cannot comeup with such ideas are åroperly a good thing but it is also a pretty large handicap when we are up against people like the MPAA (who, granted may not be playing as dirty as these suggestions).
    • gtaylor 15y ago
      I hear Yahoo is getting pretty evil these days. Maybe they'd do the dirty deeds for us.
  • zupreme 15y ago
    Agreed. But I'm not advocating sticking our heads in the sand. What I do think is that, if we let ourselves get sucked into playing the game by their rules we (the tech industry) will lose. They have more lawyers, politicians, and even law enforcement officers in their pockets than we do. The only way to win is to do what they cannot do: Innovate and build platforms and technologies for sharing information so quickly that it becomes impossible to stop the sea change. If we spend time and brainpower trying to compete in their arena we will get crushed just as surely as they would if they tried to compete in ours.
    • cowkingdeluxe 15y ago
      The market cap of Google alone exceeds the combined market cap of RIAA.