SmallBusiness.com:PIPA
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At SmallBusiness.com, we believe that laws should protect the ownership of property, both physical property and digital property. However, we share a belief with a large and growing number of organizations and individuals who think the legislation called SOPA in the U.S. House of Representatives and PIPA in the Senate will not protect property rights and, more alarming, advances a legislative agenda of the entertainment industry that we believe is a clear and present danger to the innovators and job-creators in today's economy.
We support Wikipedia's black-out and recommend you read this page on Wikipedia to learn why they chose to protest in such a way.
We also believe that the internet is too important to use flawed logic and mis-guided ideas that follow in the tradition of previous regulatory policies regarding a wide array of issues that resulted in unintended consequences, and often exacerbated the problem they were supposed to fix.
We agree with the successful book publishing entrepreneur, Tim O'Reilly, who said, "Laws like SOPA make us sclerotic as a country, where we have all these extra burdens that provide little benefit. In general it makes America less competitive. If SOPA goes through, it could very well force certain innovative companies to go offshore. There are incumbent industries that will always protest every new technology; but any forward-looking country needs to protect its emerging industries."[1]
We couldn't have said it better.
References
- ↑ Tim O'Reilly: Why I'm Fighting SOPA Gigaom.com
