re: #197 Lidane

Since my MBA program centers on digital media, we’ve been talking about SOPA and PIPA a lot this week. It’s unavoidable, especially since we spent an entire course talking about Digital Law, and copyright in particular.

One of the profs tagged both bills as a back-door attempt at passing ACTA as legislation. I think he might be on to something.

That is sort of chilling. And without India and China signing onto it the enforcement via border crossing thing is going to run strong. Plus the constant thorn of privacy violations in the name of national security.

Nothing like another arbitrary search and potentially destroy process to worry about. (This is one reason I avoid taking my personal laptop overseas. Not that there is pirated material on it, but it’s far too easy for a claim to be made that there is a violation and then having it seized.)