Because the whole business
of actually suggesting that someone is breaking the law
and then gathering evidence and proving that,
that turns out to be really inconvenient.
"We'd prefer not to do that,"
says the content industries.
And what they want is not to have to do that.
They don't want legal distinctions
between legal and illegal sharing.
They just want the sharing to go away.
PIPA and SOPA are not oddities, they're not anomalies,
they're not events.
They're the next turn of this particular screw,
which has been going on 20 years now.
And if we defeat these, as I hope we do,
more is coming.
Because until we convince Congress
that the way to deal with copyright violation
is the way copyright violation was dealt with with Napster, with YouTube,
which is to have a trial with all the presentation of evidence
and the hashing out of facts and the assessment of remedies