Rid piracy on the internet.

Getting rid of piracy on the internet, nothing to do with censorship.

What would happen if you broke into a MGM studio and trashed the entire place? If MGM chooses to file charges, you're going to jail.

Now if you post copyrighted material, say MGM full vault, online with this fail bill MGM will have the power to file charges if they want and take down your website.

How is the first one ok if the second is not?

Plagiarism isn't protected by free speech nor should piracy.

Internet piracy is most definately stealing and I don't support people doing it.  The problem with making it so that the government or companies can take down sites is that if the legal wording of the bills isn't perfectly rendered then it could potetially give a tremendous amount of power to the government and/or private interests to censor the internet should they wish to do it, as long as they claim that its to stop piracy.  Also, youtube does take down copyrighted material if they receive a complaint about it.  The owners and mods of youtube are not posting the copyrighted material.  As long as they make an effort to keep copyrighted material off their site, then I don't see why they should be shut down.

While I don't support piracy and only give money to companies that produce superior products, I would rather ham fisted legal responses that don't even involve IT engineers were stopped. A better solution to me would be to only make high quality products people care enough about to pay for rather than make a half-assed product and claim that every pirated copy is a sale stolen from you when, in fact, if they didn't use a pirate copy then they wouldn't have made an purchase at all.

>>4 And why would i purchase something after i have seen it?

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>How is the first one ok if the second is not?
Obviously they're two different things: vandalism versus "unauthorized" reproduction.

>>5
Because then you know whether it's worth buying. Music isn't like cookies, you need to buy new cookies every time you consume them so it makes sense to buy a type of cookie once to try it then buy them regularly if you like them. With music you can consume it as many times as you want after you buy it, so there is no way to try it before you commit to it without paying the full price.

>>7 fuck that, after downloading all the shit i need for free, i would never again pay for anything again, why the fuck should i, if it's free to download!

>>4

It doesn't make sense to purchase something after aquiring it for free. Some people may do this in order to support the artists, but I doubt that most people who pirate material will.  This is stealing.  My issue with this legislation is that in the case of a person posting copyrighted material on facebook, instead of that person only being fined facebook might be shutdown.  That is an over the top response.

You're just inviting an arms race if you try to `rid' the internet of piracy.

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Where are you stocking you're illegal arms and legs?