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> Critics of this pending legislation need to be honest about the company they keep and why they essentially aid and abet these criminal endeavors.

Music is the only business where you can get away with calling potential buyers of your product "criminals".

How so? Aren't most people who steal physical goods, such as cars, potential buyers of cars?

But the auto industry is not accusing search engines, and anyone else who opposes the PROTECT IP Act, of aiding and abetting criminal behavior.

Also, desktop software, movies.

Really, anything digital.