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At bottom, this is a political fight between the overwhelming majority of
law-abiding Americans, companies and institutions hurt by rampant piracy versus
a small minority of special interests who profit or benefit from the convenience of unfettered piracy, and a
small minority of techtopians who politically oppose enforcement of property rights online as a threat to transparency, sharing, freedom of speech and democracy.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottcleland/2...ecially-google/And better yet:
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Google is the only public opponent that is an admitted criminal aider-and-abettor of piracy via rogue websites. Remember, in August, Google admitted to knowingly and repeatedly violating Federal criminal laws against the “unsafe and unlawful importation of prescription drugs†via the promotion of rogue websites for years, in a criminal non-prosecution agreement; Google also paid a near record $500m criminal forfeiture penalty.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottcleland/2...ially-google/2/Exactly, Lilburne. Which is why it is generally a safe bet that if the Wikimedia Foundation rallies around some cause in the real world, one is more likely to be choosing the more ethically high-minded path by selecting the path not followed by the WMF. I knew I supported the SOPA legislation the moment Jimbo started yammering dramatically about it.