Put Down the Pitchforks on SOPA

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Pogue is making a point that HN's grellas has made repeatedly - the mixture of opposition to SOPA and opposition to copyright became a pretty big mess.

If informed, I'm confident that a strong majority of Americans would oppose SOPA. I'm equally confident that a majority would not oppose the fundamentals of copyright.

Could you give us a summary of these fundamentals of copyright?

I read one of grellas' rants, and I wasn't impressed. he/she seems to be starting from an "onwership of ideas" standpoint, and that's a logical non-starter. Too many cases of independent invention have occurred for a moral basis for idea ownership to exist.

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