SOPA

[Professor S]

Originally Posted by Seth

Prof, that's interesting. The question I have is how would file sharing be stopped without infringing on the 'openness' of the internet? Who writes those parameters outside of some other(conventional investigation, sniff-out) form of enforcement.

I'm personally against taking tax dollars away from other, important funding programs and redirecting it towards another law enforcement sector.

I wouldn't be sure of the specifics, but in essence there need to be laws specific regarding appropriate use of electronic property, and IMO they should be equivalent (or very close to equivalent) to those laws protecting personal property. Most people just don't understand, or agree with, the idea that you can make such a hard line between stealing data or stealing a physical item.

Like with most laws, they should be enforced when a crime takes place, and not try and prevent the law from being broken in the first place.