User blog comment:Kata89/SOPA and PIPA, good or bad?/@comment-1318845-20120125162057

Not to mention that pirates have other ways that will bypass SOPA. Meaning it hurts everyone else but not its intended victims.

I'm surprised at the comments that none have mentioned: SOPA would put people out of work in a ravaged economy as it is. Not help it. The Internet is a source of work for how many Americans? All of them are cut down if they work for a website like YouTube (or Wikia!) where there's even the slightest chance somebody will upload a Justin Bieber song illegally, it will eventually fall, putting them out of work. It also would possibly cut down Wikipedia, the single most useful not-profit website around.

I'm not trying to flame you. I hate flamers. But SOPA's idea (trying to stop piracy, like that'll happen) and bad execution (written with loopholes that take the whole site down for one oft-accidentally act of piracy) are both mistakes.