The Other Problem with SOPA and PIPA: They Won’t Work
Popular Mechanics:
The failure of the entertainment industry—and, consequently, the legislators who are trying to help them out—to understand their problem is because of an even more fundamental misunderstanding about the products they are selling. They believe they are selling music and movies, discrete pieces of entertainment. But since the advent of the compact disc and DVD, the entertainment industry has been selling data—and data is inherently fluid and leaky. If you cannot control the way you sell and distribute your data, you are going to suffer from leaks, and no legislative clubs are going to plug those leaks.
