liquidjoshi wrote:We had the London riots here,then there was occupy wall street. If I don't see revolution if this goes through, I'll be pissed.
What's the likelihood of SOPA passing anyway?
Well, this is brought to you by the same lobbyists and corporations that own the Sony rootkit debacle, forced HDCP into existence, wrote (and continually abuse) the DMCA, collect royalties for music they don't own, and extend copyright into perpetuity. They so far have managed to do all of this without real consequences, and are constantly demanding more. The odds of this passing are probably staggeringly high, in spite of all the noise that technically inclined people have been making.
"The People" won't riot, notice, or even understand what's happening. In fact, I've had non-technical people get angry at me for trying to explain to them why it won't hurt people intent on piracy and is only going to serve as a platform for abuse. If people were going to get mad, they'd have done it when the RIAA was telling people that ripping their own CDs to put the music on MP3 players was illegal.