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Re:I was on BloombergTV talking SOPA today - how'd I do? by squeee on Wednesday January 04, 2012 @05:10PM (#3426147)
I love how everyone keeps asking where is the compromise from the tech industry. This bill is like someone saying "Hi Bob, this store you have here is great, but sometimes someone comes in and steals one of my products off your shelves and since you can't guarantee me that I will get paid for every one of my products that walks out the door I'm going to have to shut down your store until you can."

But, to answer your question; great job. Did you get the sense that she truly had any idea what would happen if SOPA/PIPA pass as they are written today?

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Re:I was on BloombergTV talking SOPA today - how'd I do? by JoshTriplett on Wednesday January 04, 2012 @09:28PM (#3427044)
> I love how everyone keeps asking where is the compromise from the tech industry.

Politics lives by the fallacy of middle ground: the compromise is always right, and anyone refusing to compromise is always wrong and can be safely ignored. Put that together with the Overton window (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window), and politics compromises its way towards whatever position it wants. Zeno's Paradox, applied to law.

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Re:I was on BloombergTV talking SOPA today - how'd I do? by corin_ on Wednesday January 04, 2012 @05:45PM (#3426312)
This analogy is as bad as people who say that piracy is the same as stealing from a shop - in your story, the content producer does get paid for that product, it's Bob the store owner who loses money. You think shops can turn around to their suppliers and say "hey, a few things got stolen so we'd like a refund for them"?
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Re:I was on BloombergTV talking SOPA today - how'd I do? by AlisdairO on Wednesday January 04, 2012 @05:40PM (#3426286)
Yes, I find it very frustrating too. My response would probably be "The compromise was the DMCA. Usually when I make a compromise I try to stick by it."

Nice interview!

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