What you are saying is true but the defeatism won't improve anything either. By saying and thinking what you posted they have really won, our apathy (or similar sentiment) is and has become their greatest weapon. And also, we can not keep on living thinking that all of us can be bought and there is no chance of "true democracy".
-rgdot
I don't think I am being defeatist. I am being a realist.
The fundamental problem is not the RIAA/MPAA and the rest of them it is the fact they have bought politicians in most countries now - certainly in America. True you might be able to shame a few politicians into stepping up with opposition to SOPA when an election is in the not too distant future but at the end of the day we all know what RIAA/MPAA will do next and they will get what they want.
Its not even as though the US are being bought and paid for by US companies most of the time - certainly most of the entertainment business now is pretty much owned by Far Eastern companies like Sony - so your politicians are being bribed/funded/extorted/blackmailed (pick one they all apply) by multinationals.
Outside the US things are less clear cut - but the EU is an example of a group of countries who basically follow the US into all sorts of calamitous decisions, not particularly because we believe in the reasons but we fear to be ostracised, esp. the UK and the 'special relationship' which basically means we allow the US to use the UK like a large US military base.
The only way to really tackle the problem (and this is my genuine belief) is to persuade people to vote for genuinely local politicians who have no party allegiance. While party structures exist as they do in the US and the UK the public only actually get to vote for the people who have already been vetted and approved by these corporate oligarchs.
The main problem with this approach is that you have to persuade the current system to change the whole stucture of a so called democracy in which they have massive personal and financial self interest.
There are two approaches that could be campaigned for - armed struggle and a real physical revolution (which I don't really fancy) or a much more difficult path of persuasion. A simple start for that persuasion is the removal of the right to political donations - give all candidates in an election equal funding from an election fund and equal access to the media - then have local primaries to cut down the local candidate list - but decided by the electorate not smoke filled rooms of political party members. Also make voting compulsory - with a large fine if you don't without a very good reason. Finally have a 'non of the above box' on every ballot paper and force a new election if that box wins!
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