There is no question that the reviled anti-piracy bills, known as SOPA and PIPA, were terrible. The ways in which they were terrible have been explained across the Internet. But understanding how they were bad is not the same as understanding *why* they were so bad, and the reason extends beyond these particular bills to a persistent issue with intellectual property laws and regulations more generally: the asymmetry of input during the drafting process. In the drafting of SOPA the public and, importantly, the tech community were not consulted<https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/11/public-shut-out-stop-online-piracy-act-hearings-again>during hearings. When the process is so imbalanced, the results will be imbalanced as well. http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/02/can-we-harness-the-int... -- www.federicoguerrini.com Il mio ultimo libro: Vivere Social http://www.bol.it/libri/Vivere-social.-Manuale/Federico-Guerrini/ea978889713...