User blog comment:Alex9400/For or Against/@comment-4061583-20120118210416

To be serious, SOPA and PIPA aren't going to stop piracy. Let's take for example Prohibition. How well did it go? Yes, alcohol consumptions did decrease, but let's face it, it was not stomped. Likewise, those laws will decrease softcore piracy, but it will not kill piracy as a whole, but worse. Prohibition didn't lead to house raids. Not so much with SOPA/PIPA in a sense. Plenty of anti-piracy methods were tried, but none worked: Red Alert 3? It was supposed to have that online check so users would be forced to verify the CD-key online. That did not work, it was cracked. It's BS attempt by the corporate feces to pass another obviously bad law to strengthen the anti-government sentiments common in the libertarian circles.