Your view is typical of the "iGeneration".
"However, I cannot see the link between generated revenue and pirate links being a central part of a search engine???s function..."
Let me just put it out front. I don't like SOPA. It is too far and over-reaching.
That said, you are also presenting the white washed story of TV-Shack. You can argue till you are blue in the face that "TV-Shack" was fully legal but it was fundamentally unethical (and questionable on legal). It was a center of allowing the outright theft of intelectual property owned by others. If Richard O???Dwyer thought the TV-Shack was a "good idea" and had no issue with it, then a trip through the justice system might educate him and do him some good.
Does Google profit from these sites? Yep. Do they profit from the theft of books? Yep. Is SOPA, as it is written good? Nope.
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