SOPA

oh, everyone's talking about SOPA now!


Let's analyze this for 5 minutes.. if I steal your car, then you don't have a car anymore, if I copy your car, then you still have your car and I have a car also. So how can copying something be made illegal?  It seems we have redefined the word stealing to fit the economical interests of the 1% up there. They used to burn books now they close websites.


If i remember right (that's how much research I'm putting into this entry) there are something like 200 countries in this planet and 0.5% of them actually cares about copyright laws, USA, UK, Germany, Japan, Australia, and a handful more, the ones that have the money.


So the other 95% of countries on this planet, including the one I grew up in, the one I'm now, the ones I've spent most of my life at and the ones most of friends are at right now, don't really care about SOPA, or copyright laws because they have enough problems already struggling to survive, pay for rent, food or just make ends meet.


Our rules used to be, don't lie, don't steal, don't kill, and now we have thousands of laws that we can't even keep track of.


And not even the lawyers can know all the laws because there are just too many, so you will always be breaking some of them without even noticing it. Specially when traveling, most countries have their own idiotic laws that you've probably never even heard of and you are breaking right now.


And with this SOPA thing, same as with pretty much everything, in the end it all comes down to a left vs right debate. Conservative people will say yes to SOPA and progressive people will say no, as usual. But we know progressive liberal freethinkers are usually not the ones in power.

If I'm an artist, I make art because I like it and I want to share it with the world. I don't do it to make money. I do it because I want to make other people happy, thus making myself happy.


I'm not saying all the musicians should play for free and the painters should paint for free, but this laws only protects the big record labels and hollywood studios, which have billions already and don't need to keep leeching from us.



So yeah, copyright whatever, the point i wanted to make in this post was this: shouldn't we take care of the basic needs of our fellow humans instead of worrying about copyright laws?




Shouldn't we make sure the basic needs of food, shelter, health and education are covered for all the people on this planet before worrying about who's copying some silly song or movie?




Of course it's terrible that our freedom gets raped by our governments once again. But we should set up some priorities.


I probably wouldn't mind that they sensor the ways of entertainment, communicating and expressing ourselves if they make sure everyone has food, water, health and happiness on this planet.



Ok, I lie, probably I would mind, just not as much as I do now.