Napster only 'evolved' into a pay site after it was nearly sued out of existence, and then finally resurrected in a lame attempt to make up for lost ground, because all the users had moved on to other sharing technologies. However, by then, people were too used to being able to get things for free - or more importantly, conveniently. Look at some of the successful independent products like Hulu, Netflix and Spotify. A mix of great choice, decent prices and functional convenience - until the **AAses stick their greedy paws in.
I can't get Pandora in my country. So no-one gets my money for that. Americans only recently got Spotify. I only recently could get Netflix (with a pathetic selection), and I still can't get Hulu. It's like they really really don't want my money!
Speeding laws are regularly broken, but at least everyone agrees that they are very important to have on the books - and most people will pay some attention to them. Laws to force you to prop up a failing business model just don't have the same 'threat to life and limb' cachet though, even when dressed up as 'artist welfare'.
Artists/companies as welfare dependents. Hmm, that would work for bringing the GOP on board. Or make their heads explode!
Still deprivation of paid-for services with no warning. That's certainly fraud, and given that 'copying=theft' is right up there with grand larceny, especially since it is potentially *actually* depriving the user of their 'property'. Just because it's not being deleted off their reader isn't relevant - once paid for, it's essentially cloud storage. If they have no requirement to download it within a certain time, then they cannot 'expire' it, especially for something as stupid as an expired credit card. It would be totally different if it were some e-book version of Netflix, where you couldn't access something in your queue after your card expires and therefore your subscription, but that would still be about a subscription expiring.
An overwhelming majority of the politicians wanting to chuck all latinos/blacks/native americans/gays/liberals out of the country were re-elected. So what?
An overwhelming majority of the politicians wanting to crank up taxes and 'shaft the country' were re-elected. So what?
Given your nation's habit of 'interning' inconvenient nationals, this seems to be a continuation of the same process. And SOPA, even if it would have been workable or actually desirable from a legal point of view, was still utterly broken from a technical frame.
How did Prohibition work as a law with a 'desired' effect of 'protecting' society?
Reducing the deficit. That seems to be a financial war you are waging on the rest of the world - fighting currently has spread to Greece and Argentina, and even China has had outbreaks of 'conflict'.
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I can't get Pandora in my country. So no-one gets my money for that. Americans only recently got Spotify. I only recently could get Netflix (with a pathetic selection), and I still can't get Hulu. It's like they really really don't want my money!
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That and the ridiculous pricing.
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Artists/companies as welfare dependents. Hmm, that would work for bringing the GOP on board. Or make their heads explode!
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An overwhelming majority of the politicians wanting to crank up taxes and 'shaft the country' were re-elected. So what?
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How did Prohibition work as a law with a 'desired' effect of 'protecting' society?
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Charlie Brown, you're the best!
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(Spoken as a fantasy game fan ;)
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