A Scouting Life: I'm glad everyone is so concerned about SOPA/PIPA

samsplace:

However every day that bit tormenting sites exist money is taken out of my pocket. It is stolen in lost residuals which both contribute to my pension and health care, and are also paid directly to me as part of my compensation for my work. So after you are done posting your little black square on…

This is why I got pissed on Twitter at the original SB Nation post gave a pass to streaming games “because you couldn’t afford the NFL Package.” (They have since apologized and replaced their statement with the official Vox Media statement.)

Supporting things like Net Neutrality and sane copyright law  — I say sane because US Copyright is in some serious need of revision — do not have to be mutually exclusive beliefs, but nor does anti-SOPA support give you cover to for illegal activity on the internet.