The Only Way to Stop SOPA
And the only way to stop future SOPAs is to make the system less corrupt, which means taking money out of politics.<p>This is why Lawrence Lessig left the fight against intellectual property craziness to focus on the underlying problem of corruption.<p>It's been years since I heard Lessig was shifting his focus to fight corruption, and recently SOPA got me curious about what he's been up to and if SOPA had brought him back out of "retirement". That led me to this article, "Why Is Lawrence Lessig MIA In The Great SOPA Piracy Debate?"   <a href="http://m.paidcontent.org/article/419-why-is-lawrence-lessig-mia-in-the-great-sopa-piracy-debate/" rel="nofollow">http://m.paidcontent.org/article/419-why-is-lawrence-lessig-...</a><p>which led me to Lessig's response: <a href="http://lessig.tumblr.com/post/13119510676/me-mia-on-the-sopa-soap-opera" rel="nofollow">http://lessig.tumblr.com/post/13119510676/me-mia-on-the-sopa...</a><p>which led me to his iniative to fight political corruption through campaign finance reform: <a href="http://www.rootstrikers.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.rootstrikers.org/</a><p>I'm actually glad to see that Lessig isn't letting SOPA distract him from his fight against corruption which is the root of the problem. Stopping SOPA would be a huge win, but it would only be a battle win, and as long as we're losing the corruption war there are going to be many more SOPAs to fight in the future.