Saturday, January 7, 2012

The Truth about the Economics Behind the Blacklist Bills

Click here to access article by Trevor Timm from Electronic Frontier Foundation.
...for unknown reasons, Congress is ignoring that SOPA/PIPA would depress the growing tech sector, all while citing the MPAA's misleading and debunked numbers on how piracy is “decimating” their industry.
The author makes a strong case that laws such as SOPA do not make sense from a market perspective. 

So this begs the question: why are the political operatives of the One Percent, who are obsessively market oriented, trying so hard to push this law through? Could it be that they are fearing the 99 Percent's use of the internet to counter their propaganda?