"...followed by a brisk mauling."

“…and we need a little cooperation from the people who are stealing, who are stealing these movies, and we’re not getting it!” — Bill Mayer, “Real Time with Bill Mayer,” in defense of SOPA, a bill which he admits he did not read, and “doesn’t get.”

No, Bill. Do you really expect criminals to cooperate with the law? REALLY? You admit that you don’t understand what this bill is really about, that you haven’t read it. You admit the reason you even CARE is because when you released “Religulous,” you lost a large amount of profit to illegal file-sharing.

When Jennifer Granholm pointed out that at the very least, we could admire the proof that our individual citizens, when banded together, still had power in our government, you laughed it off, saying, “No, they just want free shit! They don’t want to stop getting free shit!”

Hey, Bill, I don’t pirate. That’s not to say I don’t want free shit, its just against my personal morals. Plenty of people were against SOPA on grounds that weren’t about saving their own asses. You know why we didn’t want SOPA passed? Because we felt there was a big difference between uploading the entire “Family Guy” series to your site and then selling ad space, versus taking a home video of your grandma’s centennial—where the whole nursing home gathered round and sang “Happy Birthday”—and uploading it to YouTube.