Quote from Yoorah;541530:
These kind of new laws are needed because what you do online is harder to track (and punish if you do something bad) compared to stuff you do in "real life." Again, the easiest example is online theft aka piracy. If you steal something IRL, the chance someone will see you and track you down is pretty high. Online? Nope. This is why change is required--and sadly, it's the bad people who are forcing these changes to be implemented and impact everyone else.
And support for this sort of stuff is bipartisan, from what I remember.
No. They
aren't needed.
The government doesn't need our ****ing name, address and SSN when we go to buy a loaf of bread. That's just bull****. They need to stay out of our business.
If anything, it's going to force people to pay to be more anonymous online using seedboxes or vpn's and anonymous prepaid cards.
Companies just need to pull their faces out of their asses and deliver the content people actually want. Why would I want to tote around dozens of dvd cases when I could have hundreds on my computer digitally instead?
If movies were sold in 720p or 1080p with h264 encoding in a mp4, mkv, avi format, etc., then a hell of a lot more people would be willing to buy them, especially if they cut down the cost since there's no cost for the production company since they don't need to print physical media. They would be cheaper and legal.
And for music... Well, they charge too much for that. $1 per song is just stupid. If there were 10 songs on a CD, that's $10, probably more than the actual CD itself, and you don't even get the physical media.
They really need to either lower the prices to something actually reasonable or they need to set up subscription services where people pay to legally download whatever it is they want and the money goes to the artists, production companies, et cetera.
They really just need to reform their system to be in line with the modern age, not dumb down the modern age and try to restrict it and take away our freedoms just because some greedy mother****ers are being stubborn and refuse change.