Wednesday, January 18, 2012
SOPA Loses Steam With Hollywood Union Members
WebProNews: Obviously, some of the most voracious supporters of the oft-maligned protection acts working their way through the houses of government are members of the entertainment industry. You may know at least two of these associations better by their choice of acronyms: The MPAA and the RIAA. Clearly, these to entities have the most to lose in a non-SOPA protected world, at least if let spokespersons from each group tell it.
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I'm glad to see that the workers in the entertainment industry understand the damage that SOPA would do, even if their employers and higher-ups are still blind to the harm it would do. The fact that even they acknowledge that the entertainment industry has a pretty bad track record with regards to piracy and trying to combat it, and that they would abuse the powers given to them through the SOPA/PIPA acts is kinda scary. It just demonstrates more and more that the entertainment industry does not have the capability to police itself effectively, which is why when legislation that will hopefully be actually effective in curbing piracy while also respecting people's rights on the internet does come around, the entertainment industry will hopefully not have a large role in actually doing the policing and enforcing of the legislation.
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