How SOPA would affect you: FAQ

[Mr Khan]

pezus said:
This isn't as simple as some of you think. You're not necessarily going to see any net-positive change in income/profits/etc.. Piracy can motivate a person to buy the thing he downloaded if he likes it. Without it he might never have seen it or heard of it so that'd be a lost sale, just as much as for the people who know about something yet pirate it and don't buy it in the end.

Many here look at this as black/white. What I'm seeing is the US wanting to restrict freedom on the internet and we know bad things could come out of such restrictions (no 'the next Wikileaks' for example)

Exactly. The core issue here is that you're using Chemotherapy to fight a cold. You're doing way more damage to fight something whose negative impact is debatable

I would like to clarify that i'm not pro-piracy. I only directly pirate what's unavailable to me in any legitimate form, like the full series of SWAT Kats 2.5 years before the DVD series came out or getting anime out long before the legitimate licensors can act. My ideal solution is a middle-of-the-road one, where more content is made available for ad-supported streaming online, and in many cases this is available through sites such as Hulu

But this [SOPA] is not the solution. Not in a hundred thousand years