Making money from the fallout over SOPA and PIPA by questioning assumptions
Recent discussion sparked by opposition to the SOPA and PIPA bills has mostly been along the lines of "piracy is bad because it hurts the entertainment industries, but SOPA and PIPA go too far..." I agree with Jonathan Coulton that statements like this make too many unproven assumptions. So let's start from the beginning.
Assumption 0: People should pay money for art
I think most people would agree with this assumption, although for most of human history that wasn't true.
