The Great SOPA Conspiracy Theory

http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2011/12/23/the-great-sopa-conspiracy-theory/

by flueedo • 15 years ago

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draggnar• 15 years ago

This is news to me

stevenleeg• 15 years ago

This seems ridiculous to me. Does anyone think these corporate dinosaurs really have enough intelligence on this topic to organize a mass conspiracy to gain control of the Internet?

I'm sorry but no.

SOPA is prime evidence of the knee jerk reactions these companies are making in order to protect their age old business models that no longer work.

alsocasey• 15 years ago

Sounds like regular, run-of-the-mill complete lack of communication between various disparate branches of a any large multinational corporation.

The "internet" side of things were probably run with very little oversight beyond bottom-line targets (which distributing the software off ad-loaded pages no doubt helped).

flueedo• 15 years ago

I find it unlikely too. But what's interesting is how this can be perceived as bizarrely hypocritical. For the last 10 years to this day you can go to CNET and Download.com and get software that induce/facilitate/enable piracy, such as Kazaa.

The Great SOPA Conspiracy Theory

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