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“To promote prosperity, creativity, entrepreneurship, and innovation by combating the theft of U.S. property, and for other purposes.”

The first sentence of the Stop Online Piracy Act

Ed. note: If SOPA passes, we are allowing theft and infringement to be permanently conflated in the laws of the United States.

December 21, 2011
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“Stealing music, movies, and other forms of copyrighted materials is wrong, and the problem of online infringement is real.”

Laurence Tribe, Constitutional Law Professor at Harvard in SOPA: The End of the Internet as We Know it

Ed. note: When SOPA opponents who teach law at Harvard are using the terms wrong, we’re all screwed.

December 20, 2011