The Stop Online Piracy Act: the blindness continues

I think artists stand to gain the least from copyright law protection. Artists make the least amount of money on album sales as it is. This is not because too many people are downloading their albums instead of buying them. Its largely because there isn't as much money in the record business in general. Most artists make the most off of touring, merchandise, etc. I was watching a 60 minutes episode on Taylor Swift recently, and it said that her tour made between $100 and $150 million. She likely did not receive even a small fraction of that from her record deals. Its annoying that record labels want to disguise these laws as protections for the artist. The record labels largely exist to exploit the artists, not protect them and this is evident by the many suboptimal deals artists get on their record deals. The SOPA law would serve not to protect actors, singers, etc...It is meant to protect the industry monopolies behind the artists.

-- Austin Klar