Source 7: One Way To reduce Piracy: Improve the LCS Experience: by Ryan Haupt
-Haupt believes that government intervention is not needed to stop online piracy. Retailers must strive to improve their stores and advertising in order to attract potential customers.
-Haupt compares comic book shops and retailers to front line soldiers that represent the bulk of the industry. He believes that comic shops has built up stigma as a smelly haven for snobbish nerds and this is what prevents the average person from entering the comic shop
-Citing one experience of finding a tater tot on a shelve of trades, Haupt shows that these sanitation rules can make or break a comic book shop.
-Large chain bookstores are not to blame for the comic shops declining success as bookstores do not sell bulk amounts of comics and do not treat them with the same respect as the comic shop.
-A simple hello when a customer walks in and a retailer that is willing to help customers find the best material for them can make a bigger difference that SOPA ever would, according to Haupt.
Source 8: SOPA and the Comic Book Industry: By Brett of Graphic Policy
-The blog states that the blacklisting method that SOPA proposes to end online piracy can be worked around due to the use of such devices as a Firefox-Plug in. The blog also notes this method's ineffectiveness in such undemocratic countries as Iran and China.
-The Blog notes an interesting dilemma, that websites could no longer be held accountable for causing seizures as innocent websites could be targeted and such down. This issue holds personal significance for me as I had a seizure myself and would not want that to happen to others.
-The blog also notes that SOPA gives internet service providers power to shut down websites that are "health risks to the public". The unlimited jurisdiction that this act gives can allow for innocent websites to be shut down in the wrong hands.
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