Last month we saw two major developments in the enforcement of copyrights around the world. The FBI busted Megaupload and arrested its owner, charging them both with money laundering and copyright infringement AND the proposed US legislation to protect Americans from copyright infringement - SOPA and PIPA - was defeated. It's no coincidence. SOPA and PIPA were designed to ban websites in other countries who systematically violate the copyrights of Americans, but the legislation was defeated by a spontaneous coalition of some of the richest corporations in the world like Google and Facebook and the people who believe that copyrights are out-of-date, unfair, and over-reaching. The anti-copyrights movement tries to pretend that copyright infringement isn't stealing. But it is. This is why the FBI was then forced to go into other countries to arrest people, seize assets, and shut down companies. Systematic copyright infringement is taking billions from the US economy and tens of thousands of jobs. And when people prevented copyrights from being protected by SOPA and PIPA in a non-violent, civilized way, the government was then forced to resort to brute force and invasions of other countries to protect its citizen's rights. If advocates of the "free mind" really believed in peace and rational process of law they would have supported SOPA and PIPA overwhelmingly. But in reality they only believe in stealing. And stealing is an inherently violent act. On some level they understand this, and this is why there is no spontaneous coalition to defend Megaupload.
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