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Except that there's already laws that say building circumvention devices is a felony.

And with that other bill, where the US can arrest anyone, anywhere, anytime, it's not good enough to not be American.



The legality isn't stopping people from copyright infringement, so why would it stop them from working around blatant censorship? If anything, something as drastic as SOPA is likely to make breaking these laws even more socially acceptable, which is bad news for its supporters.




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