What's So Bad About SOPA?

[Fred]

The reason copyright laws were designed as a civil matter, is that otherwise the heavy (and politicized) hand of government would become an over-bearing force on our Free Market system.

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[enhu]

As if hardware manufacturers aren't bad enough to actually make partner with software companies. I think it won't work in the end though. Lots of us in the online world, especially in BHW are usually raising an amount just to buy a product so why would one buy stuff that can't/won't be shared?