• ShepherdPie@midwest.social
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    8 months ago

    They know the game. Articles like this are to gain sympathy amongst the rest of society and cast pirates as ruthless criminals in order to gain public support for some future draconian legislation. We’ll probably see some SOPA-like legislation in the near future (probably after the election)

    • possibly a cat@lemmy.ml
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      8 months ago

      Of course. And my reframing of the argument was more of the same, pandering to public opinion. Unfortunately I don’t have their pockets - or else I might be able to do something more meaningful, like lobby against the SOPAs of the world.