I don't support SOPA. I do think that a law similar the the DMCA should continue to exist. However, I would like to see it amended to protect user rights to ins

I don't support SOPA. I do think that a law similar the the DMCA should continue to exist. However, I would like to see it amended to protect user rights to inspect and modify the software/hardware that they purchase. I would be interested to hear how the law could be structured to allow remixes (releasing a patched version of Skype, mixing a Taylor Swift video, etc.), but I think that gets more complicated. I do think that it is reasonable to ask that people building automated tools also build automated tools to comply with the law. For example, Grooveshark ought to enforce not just individual DMCA requests against a particular entry in their database, but should be expected to use a content hash of some sort to avoid trivial circumvention of the law. This is technically trivial, and is not an onerous requirement. Google could easily apply similar tools, and to some extent they already do. When those automated tools are not possible (for example, when running a Tor relay), the organization running the infrastructure should be absolved of all responsibilities related to data that passes through, but is not observable to them. This is a very logical outcome of the DMCA, because if traffic is not observable, no take down request can be reasonably made. Lastly, I think that while the Google's and Reddit's of the world ought to have no legal responsibility to police truly harmful content -- ISIS videos, or /r/coontown -- they should, as good citizens of the web, do so anyway.