How SOPA would affect you: FAQ

[Mr Khan]

kitler53 said:

Mr Khan said:

kitler53 said:

ugh, this is targeted at creating a way to enforce existing laws that are being blatantly broken via the internet. the laws are there for a reason -- i work in the software industry -- i make a wage -- and my job entirely depends on my company's ability to sell that software.  and a big fuck you to anyone out there that thinks my work ought to be freely availible on the internet just because you pulled out a dictionary and think copying doesn't fit precisly into the word stealing. 

laws need to be able to be enforced.  as is the internet is lawless and that is a problem.  i'm not 100% sure this is the absoulte best solution but if you've got a better way to enforce the law please tell me.

so sorry for being so damn greedy that i think the hours i spend at work ought to grant me a living wage...

I posted a reply in the other thread. The general idea is that the level of piracy, on its own in a vacuum, is not going to impact your amount of revenue, and therefore not going to effect your job. The consensus is that piracy does little to cannibalize software sales on the whole, so you would fall on the "misinformed" side of the line if you think the law would do anything to help you

The "general idea" is the excuses pirates fabricate to make them feel better performing and action they know is wrong.

The "consensus" is the combined opinion of internet dwellers who want justify the current actions.

...i quoted you in the other thread so i know you already read my point.  i've been told on the internet soo many times that pirates are only those that "can't afford" and therefore it isn't really a "lost sale" and yet everywhere i look highly educated, highly compensated buying homes just say of the $1 million mark pirating ALL of their media content.

i think it is you that is misinformed about the relationship between enforcing laws and the populations compliance to those laws.  but hey, if you are soo confident let's do an experiment.  let's keep in the law books that aggravated assult is still illegal but when it happens we just won't do anything do enforce or prosecute that law.  surely you have the cofidense that you are still safe in your neighboorhood without enforcing that law just like not being able to enforce copyright protection surely won't have any effect on legal sales of copyrighted materials.

...and please, when we do this little experiment -- send me your address.. for ..um.. no reason at all.  yeah.

 

..'cause it is certainly true that 1 pirated material will not equal 1 sale.  but to have an idea that 100s of billions of pirated materials will have no negitive impact on legal sales,... you've got to be kidding me.  are you really that "misinformed"??

Not a lack of negative impact altogether, but individual cases are not how economics works. I have cited economists here, people who understand the bigger picture, as well as one study that indicated that anti-piracy efforts on the part of software publishers (DRM) are actually counterproductive, and harm overall rather than help.