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click170 on Nov 16, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: SOPA Hearing is Streaming Live

How unfortunate. Ms. Jackson-Lee seems to have fallen for the fallacious argument that every file that was downloaded would have otherwise been bought if piracy wasn't a viable option. This does not bode well for the future...

feralchimp on Nov 16, 2011 [–]

"stealing our nation's genius"

FAIL. Genius, like digital bits, are not zero sum. This isn't digital Highlander; a kid pirating a film does not magically soak up (and away) the genius of the auteur.

mirkules on Nov 16, 2011 | [–]

The solution, of course, is to stifle our nation's genius so that nobody can steal it.

Nice Highlander metaphor, btw.

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