And so my dear readers today we're gonna discuss the new laws in the US senate. Namely SOPA and PIPA (btw, fun fact PIPA in Romanian means pipe, the smoking type, and also is largely used in slang as another word for dick).

But let's get to the point.

If SOPA and PIPA gets voted then US citizens will end up in another type of communist censorship. And i tell you this as someone who knows exactly what he's talking about since i lived in the communist Romania all my youth (well, until the age of 14 that is).

Now, as my good friend Dann (nope, not me, he's from UK, we just happen to share the name) said, first of all this acts comes in total disagreement with the first amendment, aka the freedom of speech. Then again it's only natural for the American congress to do whatever they like if it suits the large companies. AlsoI must say this particualr pro argument for this act made me laugh.

According to cbsnews.com: Content groups like the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), and business representatives like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, argue that innovation and jobs in content-creating industries are threatened by growing Internet piracy. Overseas websites, they argue, are a safe haven for Internet pirates profiting off their content.

Really?

How can an overseas internet website can stop someone from hiring personnel? Well it could because you see, if someone gets a job into content-creating industry all their work is getting automatically copyrighted by that company and once that particular work piece get's "pirated" the company loose money and in the end they cannot afford to keep that person. That's of course what comes up at a first glance. BUT at a second more deep glance, the exact same work is getting sold legally in millions of copies as well (through iTunes or whatever other online media store). The real issue is that with the freedom to express themselves the mentioned employee chooses to sell his work independently and makes more money out've it through royalties or direct sales. And that was not something that was widely known in US. But it's getting to be a problem because with all the "overseas" websites publishing free and cheap work and with all the information that anyone can access our dear americans end up learning stuff about working for themselves rather then making money for the giants. And of the US senate promptly gets worried about loosing "jobs". LOL

So what is to be done. Let's cut off the information channels, keep all americans dumb and in the end our giants will thrive. Yeah right. Nope, they will not thrive.

The software/media/whatever will still get pirated and believe it or not, if you want to drop the pirating rate, rather then passing censorship laws to be thrown chaotically by computer illiterate judges in every direction you should just talk to you dear media company owners to lower their prices because once a product get's a fair affordable price everyone prefers to have the best copy rather then some cracked/pirated/edited shit.

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