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If SOPA would increase your business income by 10 times, would you accept it then?

No, you're still talking about fundamentally broken mechanisms and rules. If SOPA would decrease your business income by 10 times, would you accept it then? I can make up numbers too.

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If SOPA would increase your business income by 10 times, would you accept it then?

Except that it won't. An almost insignificantly small industry has an outrageous amount of influence compared to the industries that actually make real money and jobs in the US.

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If SOPA would increase your business income by 10 times, would you accept it then?

Except that it won't. An almost insignificantly small industry has an outrageous amount of influence compared to the industries that actually make real money and jobs in the US.

Just imagine what it would be like to make 10 times more money from iOS development say. Wouldn't you like that?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Except that it won't. An almost insignificantly small industry has an outrageous amount of influence compared to the industries that actually make real money and jobs in the US.

Just imagine what it would be like to make 10 times more money from iOS development say. Wouldn't you like that?

"Go sell crazy somewhere else, we're all stocked up here."

I like hypothetical money trees just as much as the next person but on what do you base these hypothetical scenarios?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Except that it won't. An almost insignificantly small industry has an outrageous amount of influence compared to the industries that actually make real money and jobs in the US.

Just imagine what it would be like to make 10 times more money from iOS development say. Wouldn't you like that?

Never. I can't even imagine wanting to sell my freedom.

EDIT: I'm not sure why you would like it, either, given that the iOS games in your profile appear to be derivatives of more popular ones. If some legal department felt that you crossed the line somewhere in one of those games, you could have all your accounts suspended. That's not 10x the profit, that's 10x the risk.

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