read the article will you? The reason it is "SOPA like" is how it was made and rushed through congress with little concern of public backlash. We're not talking about actual content of the bill here.
From what I gathered from this it allows a "protected entity", which could be anyone, to contract a "Cybersecurity Provider" to gather info on anything as long as long as it constitutes a "cyber-security threat" something that is neither specific and can be easily proven to be anything. The "protected entity" may then share that information with the government or "any other entity designated by the protected entity", which again could be anyone. The worst part is "Preempts any state statute that restricts or otherwise regulates an activity authorized by the Act," this means that states will have no say in the matter on the bill, as anything they pass to nullify the bill will be rendered pointless. So, my conclusion is that it is the government's attempt to get a free card whenever it wants any information it can't readily get by calling it a "cyber security threat".
A couple good things I did see were that the information could not be used for commercial purposes, though since this summary doesn't go into much detail on how that will work it is hard to tell how effective it will really be in reality.
Another thing is the oversight board, but this is a double edged sword. While it may be used to genuinely protect privacy and civil liberties, they only give recommendations that may or may not be followed. The worst case being suggestions that make the bill even worse.
While I agree there does need to be a balance, even as you say yourself, my problem with copyright law as it stands now is that it has tipped too far in favor of copyright holders, not even the authors, artists, and musicians, but the holders. So, in order to find that balance again, copyright law sorely needs to be revised.
If you look at how much Stardock's products are pirated and how much Ubisoft's is pirated, they are pretty much comparable, though I don't even know why people would even want Ubisoft games...
Any DRM Ubisoft puts on their software does nothing to the actual number of people pirating their content, so what's the point of it?
Let's face it, no amount of "Anti-Piracy" measures has ever actually stemmed the flow of piracy. If piracy actually did cause the erosion of a business model like you said, you would have seen it by now, but you haven't.
But the Users are the one's who name and upload files, is it really IsoHunt's fault someone uploads "HIGH QUALITY!!!1 Game Of Thrones XviD-FQM[ettv]" They provide the service, the users decide what to do with it.
Yeah he reminds me a lot of the troll AC from the comments of the "Megaupload Points Out That The Feds Want To Destroy Relevant Evidence In Its Case" post.
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A couple good things I did see were that the information could not be used for commercial purposes, though since this summary doesn't go into much detail on how that will work it is hard to tell how effective it will really be in reality.
Another thing is the oversight board, but this is a double edged sword. While it may be used to genuinely protect privacy and civil liberties, they only give recommendations that may or may not be followed. The worst case being suggestions that make the bill even worse.
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Any DRM Ubisoft puts on their software does nothing to the actual number of people pirating their content, so what's the point of it?
Let's face it, no amount of "Anti-Piracy" measures has ever actually stemmed the flow of piracy. If piracy actually did cause the erosion of a business model like you said, you would have seen it by now, but you haven't.
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anyway I was trying to say "I love the Humble Bundle, got a lot of great games from that"
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