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Originally Posted by Hitchens
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I should have said SOPA wouldn't change much for the average end-user.
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I know what you're saying, but dwell on this for a moment.
DNS redirect would be so easy to get around it isn't funny. Nothing the government can do under SOPA or PIPA can be effective in stopping piracy.
They won't be able to control what the pirates put online, so they will control ordinary users' access to the internet as a substitute.
Failed legislation will bring more restrictive legislation, and the final result will be allowing end users to connect only through approved government portals. That would be the only
effective method of controlling piracy.
The sad thing is that the money "lost" to content providers is all hypothetical. They are really doing
better right now than other industries economically speaking.