Comments on: Why Is Lawrence Lessig MIA In The Great SOPA Piracy Debate? http://paidcontent.org/2011/11/20/419-why-is-lawrence-lessig-mia-in-the-great-sopa-piracy-debate/ The economics of digital content Sun, 19 May 2013 07:03:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: LT http://paidcontent.org/2011/11/20/419-why-is-lawrence-lessig-mia-in-the-great-sopa-piracy-debate/#comment-86283 Wed, 14 Dec 2011 20:39:04 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2011/11/20/419-why-is-lawrence-lessig-mia-in-the-great-sopa-piracy-debate/#comment-86283 Why? Probably because when everyone is already outraged, it’s not worth Lessig’s time to participate.

Once an issue reaches the front page of a major newspaper, the issue’s advocates have accomplished 90% of their goal.

]]> By: Jay http://paidcontent.org/2011/11/20/419-why-is-lawrence-lessig-mia-in-the-great-sopa-piracy-debate/#comment-86282 Sun, 20 Nov 2011 16:52:53 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2011/11/20/419-why-is-lawrence-lessig-mia-in-the-great-sopa-piracy-debate/#comment-86282 I would say that Lessig’s pursuit to ending corruption would help in the long run.  The fact is, the lobbying that Hollywood does for copyright would bring about a much fairer balance than constantly fighting in Congress against the egregious examples of businesses benefiting from monopolies.  I would ask for Lessig to continue fighting against lobbying.  It would cut Hollywood off at its source.

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