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The tech industry is harmed by piracy a zillion times greater than Hollywood ever has been or ever could be. Microsoft alone is pirated more than Hollywood in dollar terms. Yet the tech industry hasn't spent the last ten years trying to get vile bills like this passed. It's clearly because Hollywood is in trouble that they're scrambling. Same thing the recording industry did when they saw their own tombstone. Unfortunately Hollywood is even more powerful.


"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." Mahatma Gandhi (http://www.quotedb.com/quotes/2776)

SPOA/PIPA seem to very firmly place the tech world into the "then they fight you" arena.




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