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I’m surprised by the number of people here who bit on the “censorship” bait. These bills are an attempt to honor / reinforce intellectual property rights. It’s been allowed to go on so long that people apparently feel they are entitled to things that are created and owned by someone else. Sad. I hope these bills prevail.

I can see your concern to downloading movies illegally and/or music, but I think this goes way overboard. There is a thing called "fair Use," which I support and all this will do is make people afraid to post pictures and text because they would need a lawyer to figure things out at best or not post anything out of fear. all it is is a power grab by government and the people in their pockets to stifle the easy flow of information instead of adapting to it. As one of my heroes, Harry Mudd, from Star Trek puts it, "Knowledge, sir, should be free to all." B-) This will stifle the flow of knowledge. The old ways are gone, the spread of knowledge is so easy now, maybe we need to restructure the idea of intellectual property itself, redefine it somehow, unlike your house, land, car, software and possessions, it has a bit of intangibility to it. As the saying goes, it either has to put up or shut up with the reality of today and/or adapt or die. This law will stifle creativity and it will drive more things from our shores to other places to make it go underground. I think the way things are is good enough.