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51. Exactly. Even the "old media", like RIAA, despite of what they claim and believe,

never really sold "the right to listen to music" (content), but just packaged convenience of listening
experience. Ever since invention of tape recorders anyone in possession of one could
record any copyrighted music off the radio for free. People continued to buy records simply
because those were cheap and spared them the hassle. They paid for convenience, and they
paid as much as that convenience was worth to them. Same is true with CDs and DVDs.
Now the Internet just minimized the hassle of downloading and burning of a song or a movie.
But RIIA wants to charge the same ridiculous amount for the same product, which is clearly
much diminished in utility. The only way to do it is to make finding and ripping movies and
music into more hassle, as it was before. How far would they go in those attempts? Would
they ban online radio stations, because anyone with minimal technical savvy could save digital
copies of broadcasted songs? SOPA is stupid because it is futile in its declared purpose and
it is dangerous in its potential to overreach that purpose.