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SOPA would put this blog out of business. The whole intellectual property rights thing has already had an impact on higher ed putting materials behind pay-walls and making them unavailable to students and faculty. It has also had a deadening effect on scientific research and development with corporations rushing to put patents on new discoveries and locking them away in lawyer-guarded vaults of trade secrets never to see the light of day, or of critical testing and further research.
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