Can You Hear Me, Now? *Silence*

"If a tree falls in the woods, does it make a sound?"

Sure it does.  But if no one can hear it, then how does anyone know, right?  What if no one was there to hear it? What if no one could hear you?  What if you couldn't communicate online, because sites didn't off you the ability to post anything, because they were afraid you'd use their site to display copyright infringing material and ultimately get blacked out?

Keep in mind I have my doubts that SOPA will go through, but what if it did?  That's what many sites are trying to tell all of us.  Wikipedia has gone black for the day to show what it would be like.  They're doing this to let people know that they want people to raise their voice about the issue.  Let's speak up.

Want to see what your friend's favorite moment in "Family Guy" on the last episode?  Tough!  He'll have to tell you in his own words.  Doesn't have the same effect, does it?  Nope.  Not at all.  It may sound funny, but you won't get the same effect.  Plus there are some things that just don't translate into words so well.  That's probably the smallest nitpick I'd have about it.  I could talk about the evils of uploading copyrighted material, but I'm guilty enough for watching those clips as I said before.  Besides unless it is a full episode, it just seems that the media is kinda of anal about it.

Take a look at You Tube.  People abuse the heck out of it.  I'm guilty of watching the illegally pirated clips, but I don't upload them.  Google doesn't exactly have the man power to take them all down, let alone even know about every single one that gets put up.  That puts Google in jeopardy of being blacked out by the media.  Bye bye, You Tube.  This goes for any website where you can post even text.  What's stopping someone from putting up a link to a foreign site to download illegal movies from?  Nothing, but the law.  But there are soooo many of us and compared to the media.  It's "the few of them versus the lot of us."  Or in this case "their money vs. our empty pockets."

Money talks in politics.  No lie.  Everyone knows it.  They have tried before to trample on our rights and in some cases have been successful.

I'd like to see how DVD and music sales go after this to be honest.  I would end up saying "the hell with all of you." and just cancel Netflix.  Learn how to cloak myself online the best I can and pirate things under cover.  Why should they get my money if they don't deserve it?

"Well technically they do deserve it since they worked hard on what you stole."
Are you talking to me?  Don't forget they stole something much more valuable from everyone else than their precious movies.

Open your hearts, minds and spirits and empty your wallets, media corporations of America.  Without us, you're nothing.  It's our money that got you where you are today.  Start showing the little guy some damn respect.  You didn't get to where you are today without us.