[twir]

While I see your point, I don't think it's fair to chalk up the opposition to merely piracy supporters. There are a large number of people who fear the broader ramifications, and a lot of organizations, who are against SOPA and not necessarily pirates.

[Tycho]

Reading the description of the bill below, it does seem awful. But like I said, up to this point I hadn't even read it, and the reason for that is there's so much noise coming from the pro-torrenting lobby, I just tune out the whole debate these days.

(i should note that i don't live in the USA, otherwise I probably would have read about the bill itself by now)

[billpatrianakos]

It's not fair, you're right. However I'm seeing a lot pro piracy people out there and a lot of the top stories on this have been either coming from or somehow supporting the major piracy, excuse me, "peer to peer file exchange and sharing" sites.

I doubt anyone here will say SOPA has any redeeming qualities whatsoever but the comments and stories sometimes stray into the area we're talking about and we're only speaking in the context of those sites.