<story><title>While we are focusing on SOPA, we are being distracted from the Protect IP Act</title><url>http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/np5ee/while_we_are_focusing_on_sopa_we_are_being/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fragsworth</author><text>I get a dreadful sense that there&apos;s really no stopping this. The entertainment industry has been around longer than the tech industry, their claws more deeply embedded in our political system. They will not cease until they get the controls they want. They&apos;ll stop at nothing - they will use every tactic they can come up with to get their laws passed.  Maybe SOPA won&apos;t pass, maybe Protect IP won&apos;t pass, but later on it will be something else. The public gets bored with issues as they drone on - can we maintain our vigilance forever?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alexqgb</author><text>Maintaining vigilance is one thing. Resisting a direct and perpetually sustained assault is another. In answer to that question, no, the public can&apos;t win. Like a body riddled with unchecked tumors, it will inevitably die - prematurely and horribly.&lt;p&gt;Make no mistake: private election finance is a cancer upon the Nation. We end it, or it ends us.</text></comment>
<story><title>While we are focusing on SOPA, we are being distracted from the Protect IP Act</title><url>http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/np5ee/while_we_are_focusing_on_sopa_we_are_being/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fragsworth</author><text>I get a dreadful sense that there&apos;s really no stopping this. The entertainment industry has been around longer than the tech industry, their claws more deeply embedded in our political system. They will not cease until they get the controls they want. They&apos;ll stop at nothing - they will use every tactic they can come up with to get their laws passed.  Maybe SOPA won&apos;t pass, maybe Protect IP won&apos;t pass, but later on it will be something else. The public gets bored with issues as they drone on - can we maintain our vigilance forever?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rohit89</author><text>Perhaps work should be done to pass a law that prevents these sort of bills from popping up. Go on the offense and eliminate the threat instead of constantly having to defend variations of the problem.</text></comment>