I don't download music or movies illegally (I tend to believe that if someone has produced something, and desires for users or consumers of that product to pay them, then, if I use that product or service, I should pay - if I don't think that it is worth what they want me to pay, I shouldn't use the product!), but I do have a problem with SOPA and the breadth of powers it gives the government to interfere with my access to information and web sites. I don't trust my government, with leaders who do not understand the technology they are seeking to regulate, to restrict their regulatory activities to genuinely offending sites. We have seen too much of an attitude of "arrest, then don't bother verifying whether the individual or business was actually offending," to believe that innocent sites will not be caught up in the very big net that SOPA provides. SOPA is too imprecise of a tool to be allowed to our law enforcement groups.

It isn't just about people wanting to "pirate" and steal - there are vastly broader implications of such censorship - so before you get all self-righteous and pissed at "pirates". Get the facts before you shoot off your mouth in ignorance. SOPA must die! And Homeland Security has no business enforcing copyright law - period!

Thanks pirates,