Re: SOPA is back already
Posted by:
Breakfast Club
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Date: January 25, 2012 10:52AM
The point is why do we need more legal codes that could possibly be misconstrued by various malcontents to damage America's technology sector? Since it has been proven that current codes in place are suffcient (hence the takedown of Megaupload), why tack on another set of bills? The government doesn't need anymore legal authority to deal with the problem, there's quite enough as it is. There's a whole department with hundreds of techs, field agents, etc. in the FBI (just one example) who sole purpose is anti-piracy. What would this new bill have them do that they're not doing now? Motivate them? Make another department? Why can't we utilize the resources we already have instead of wasting our time creating new ones?
Also, it doesn't matter how many bills you put into Congress or how many agents you send out, the fact is the bootlegging is a highly profitable, global industry. Always has been and always will be. To assume that the American legislative system can somehow stop it is rather naive.