At the risk of getting digitally lynched, doesn't the government have to do... something? If I steal the Adobe master suite from a store, that's a felony, but if I download it, it's copy write infringement?

With more and more distributed online, there are going to HAVE to be some governed laws covering businesses who - more and more - are staking their livelihood on online business. Right now, there's nothing to protect them, other than easily crackable DRM measures.

While I think this has the potential to be scary, shouldn't you agree that some steps NEED to be taken? I've read the bill, and on paper it looks mostly fair, with some extra not so much fair steps taken to drive home the point. I don't agree with punishing sites that do business with sites that promote piracy. It's not the same as harboring terrorists.

Honestly, I pirated the hell out of everything once upon a time, but things have gotten better. Software as "apps" are much more affordable, music is cheap or free depending on your Internet service. Things are getting better.I don't know, I'm off topic.