"Better than SOPA" => A lot of things are better than SOPA. But we have done this dance a lot of times before. These 'better things' are a lot of different things to different people. I know that 'people in Europe' would be satisfied if they could get content in an easy manner and directly. The fact that you buy a book/movie/game on Amazon/apple/whatever and it says 'not available in your region' is prehistoric and simply invites illegal copying. No-one cares about the copyright laws involved with regions; it's inconvenient, so people copy and (a lot of people) buy when it comes out in their region (finally, if it ever does...). But the whole region concept is so out of date that even the notion of it makes all 'piracy' claims laughable in the eyes of most people 'over here'.
The claim that if 'companies would make legal buying as easy as copying people would buy more' I think holds a lot of truth. Sure you have people who copy always (they just don't want to pay), but SOPA won't stop that at all, not even a bit. It doesn't stop these people and pisses off people who actually are not opposed to paying but cannot (at the time). There might be other groups, I don't know them.
Currently there definitely is nothing 'better' than SOPA in the eyes of the publishers besides what there currently is, and both don't prevent what they want to prevent, but SOPA does cripple the internet, which makes it very wrong. Everyone with a brain SHOULD oppose it.
If you know of a 'better' solution, please enlighten me; the 'solutions' so far are based on a lot of work on the side of providers and such and none on the side of publishers while just providing the same content for the same price at the same time all over the world would prevent significantly more than any laws, punishment or filters can (but I know they are trying to postpone that eventuality because they want to make more money artificially (without doing any work) which is exactly the reason they are dinosaurs).
The claim that if 'companies would make legal buying as easy as copying people would buy more' I think holds a lot of truth. Sure you have people who copy always (they just don't want to pay), but SOPA won't stop that at all, not even a bit. It doesn't stop these people and pisses off people who actually are not opposed to paying but cannot (at the time). There might be other groups, I don't know them.
Currently there definitely is nothing 'better' than SOPA in the eyes of the publishers besides what there currently is, and both don't prevent what they want to prevent, but SOPA does cripple the internet, which makes it very wrong. Everyone with a brain SHOULD oppose it.
If you know of a 'better' solution, please enlighten me; the 'solutions' so far are based on a lot of work on the side of providers and such and none on the side of publishers while just providing the same content for the same price at the same time all over the world would prevent significantly more than any laws, punishment or filters can (but I know they are trying to postpone that eventuality because they want to make more money artificially (without doing any work) which is exactly the reason they are dinosaurs).