Click the link above to read Joshua Kopstein’s article.
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Imagine life without the Internet folks! Seeya later Facebook! So long online shopping and bill-pay!
LaurasTheory does not understand how SOPA and its compadre in the US Senate even made it to their respective committees. Lobby money? What?
I don’t think the entertainment industry even remotely comprehends the massive amount of free publicity their artists and products are going to lose if either bill goes into law.
Online shopping and banking will also be compromised by these bills, if the security issues raised in this article are valid.
If so, any hopes that the entertainment industry has of actually capitalizing on these bills by selling more product online will fall by the wayside quickly as Internet shoppers drop away like leaves on a windy fall day as concerns about online theft take hold.
So with Tower Records and Blockbuster off the blocks, so to speak, and more paper catalogs, magazines and newspapers cancelled than in the history of paper publishing, what’s the plan for the future of CD and DVD sales?
No sales?
