Would you still purchase from a rogue site, knowing that the counterfeit goods could kill you?That’s what happens every day when consumers unknowingly do business on rogue websites.

WALL STREET JOURNAL EDITORIAL

(Brake the Internet Pirates, 1/18/12)

"This isn't college kids swapping MP3s, as in the 1990s. Rather, rogue websites set up shop overseas and sell U.S. consumers bootleg movies, TV shows, software, video games, books and music, as well as pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, fashion, jewelry and more... The Internet has been a tremendous engine for commercial and democratic exchange, but that makes it all the more important to police the abusers who hijack its architecture. SOPA merely adapts the current avenues of legal recourse for infringement and counterfeiting to new realities. Without rights that protect the creativity and innovation that bring fresh ideas and products to market, there will be far fewer ideas and products to steal."