In the wake of SOPA/PIPA last month I put forth my distillation of the digital piracy conundrum, arguing: SOPA wouldn’t really be needed if service providers figured out how to satisfy the digital market demands that pirate sites so successfully satisfy. At minimum, giving the government the power to block access to web content isn’t going…

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There’s nothing that works so right that someone can’t, by some edict, wreck it. The internet as we know it could be wrecked. With SOPA, the “Stop Online Piracy Act” being debated in Congress, we have a meta rehashing of the same digital piracy debate we had pre-iTunes. Where once the RIAA was fighting to…

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