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 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-internet-to-collaboratively-write-better-laws/253445/
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