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Of course, with SOPA they won't just take the one addon down, but the entire domain.


In which case I'm sure "someone" will post it uuencoded to every forum operated by any subsidiary of companies supporting SOPA.

Or something to that effect.

They'll have fun moderating every scrap of user generated content they want to make use of or shut all their forums down, and still, circumvention tools will be everywhere.

If this passes, not only will they find people will create tons of tools to make circumvention easier than ever, but darknet efforts redoubled and work to make the net in general more censorship resistant explode; and people doing their worst to ensure it'll be harder than ever to stop piracy.


Except that there's already laws that say building circumvention devices is a felony.

And with that other bill, where the US can arrest anyone, anywhere, anytime, it's not good enough to not be American.


The legality isn't stopping people from copyright infringement, so why would it stop them from working around blatant censorship? If anything, something as drastic as SOPA is likely to make breaking these laws even more socially acceptable, which is bad news for its supporters.




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