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Friday
Jan202012

The Next SOPA

DateFriday, January 20, 2012 at 10:59AM

Marco Arment

Such ridiculous, destructive bills should never even pass committee review, but we’re not addressing the real problem: the MPAA’s buying power in Congress. This is a campaign finance problem.

Couldn't agree more with Marco here.  Money might not buy elections, but it sure as hell can buy laws. Just look at the copywright law and how everytime Mickey Mouse is up to be public domained Disney pays millions, maybe even billions to extend the copywright.

Finance reform needs to happen and big business is going to use their large coffers to fight.  The only advantage we have is the numbers.  As the OWS protests have shown, people are fed up.