User blog comment:Craiglpalmer/SOPA and PIPA Situation Summary/@comment-1370845-20120118174108

If they want to remove piracy, that's the wrong way to go about it. Removing piracy yet making the internet a bad pace is for obvious ideas bad, but removing the really bad piracy can be good. Rather than shutting down people who upload the occasional pirated image or a few seconds of a cartoon for their personal use, there must be a way to prevent this from occurring.

It's a fact that 90% of music is distributed illegally. There should be something done about that, yes. But what iTunes does to prevent this actually encourages piracy; if I lose a song I've downloaded, I'll illegally download it instead. And if I want to sell a custom compilation cd I own to someone, why can't there be ways in which I can do that but the artists can still make some of the money, but easily? And why can't the credit card system be improved somehow so that I'll be able to access music? The main reason I can't access it is because I have no credit card.

Why should little things be classed as piracy and coyright? There's plenty of ways, without destroying everythnig else in the process, that this can be done. As for Wikia, considering how often it's used, why can't Wikia just be made 'official' by the companies somehow? Why can't we allow the companies to distribute images to us, for example? That doesn't stop the people in the internet who get charged for only tiny things such as a video they made for personal use, but there could wel be ways tt could be sorted out without an 'iron fist'.