In this case, I think it's a 'police state' thing, since several tech companies have come out against it. But SOPA and ACTA were definitely anti-piracy powergrabs.
*sigh* The thing about even the 'moderate' piracy legislation is... where is the line? I don't pirate games, videos, or books/manga/whatnot, but I DO have several game soundtracks from Zophar's Domain downloaded to my computer. That might count as 'piracy' - even though I OWN all the games involved, and only use the music because I don't want to have to use my GBA/DS/whatnot solely as a music player. (And I used to do that, with certain games with open Sound Rooms. Fire Emblem and Chrono Trigger come to mind.) And that is ridiculous.
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In this case, I think it's a 'police state' thing, since several tech companies have come out against it. But SOPA and ACTA were definitely anti-piracy powergrabs.
*sigh* The thing about even the 'moderate' piracy legislation is... where is the line? I don't pirate games, videos, or books/manga/whatnot, but I DO have several game soundtracks from Zophar's Domain downloaded to my computer. That might count as 'piracy' - even though I OWN all the games involved, and only use the music because I don't want to have to use my GBA/DS/whatnot solely as a music player. (And I used to do that, with certain games with open Sound Rooms. Fire Emblem and Chrono Trigger come to mind.) And that is ridiculous.