Almost too easy...

was according to your profile you are american therefore you probably already know that.

1. media (movies, musics, games) is americas #1 national export

2. most of our physical products are make overseas like in china to which we have a massive trade deficite that is hurting our ecomony. 

so when you make an assumption that a dollar spent is a dollar spent you are wrong.  not protecting our largest national product contributes both to the amount of money leaving our country and the limits the amount coming in.  would it be $100 billion.  i don't know.  maybe less.  could be more.

also let me tell you a personal story.  i work for a software company.  we are in the engineering space (as oppose to entertainment) and a chinese company got a hold of software while we were trying to make a sale to a chinese power company.  from that "piracy" of our software he extracted our core modeling engine (~$200M investment on our company's part) and re-skined our product to sell in china.  right now he has about a 15M a year company (and growing) from our software that is not brought back to america. our company pulled entirely out of china.  we can't make money in an economy that doesn't respect IP rights.

so let me be plain.  either you reconise IP as property that needs to be protected as would any other product or you don't.  but remember, america isn't a manufacturing ecomony, we're base mostly on IP of various sorts.   if we can't protect IP america's ecomony will collapse because so much of our ecomony is dependant on it.

Yea they will get this passed while people arent looking they will attach it to a education or unemployment bill which will need to be passed.

I don't want to impose my tastes on others, but being a retrogamer, I almost always got excellent games, I've been ripped off very rarely, and I spent a very honest amount for the quality I received in return. By no means I can say the same about the record industry. Result, after having spent a considerable total amount both on games and records and CDs, I still don't pirate games and as soon as I found it I bought a legit copy of Planescape: Torment that I really had to pirate, as I couldn't find it new for sale and only as excessively overpriced collection item used, to finally regularize it. About records and CDs: NO COMMENT.
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