Just got around to reading Henley's op-ed from USA Today - very interesting indeed. He certainly is a formidable rhetorician.

For those who are interested in hearing both sides of the debate, here are some other viewpoints:

Partial responses from the EFF, whom Henley includes in his criticism: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/n...m_campaign=rss (I find the first response much better than Templeton's, which suffers from the fatal flaw of cheesy incorporation of Eagles titles - I was cringing as I read it).

A couple other responses:

http://brainwagon.org/2011/08/26/don...rotect-ip-act/

http://www.zeropaid.com/news/95333/a...rotect-ip-act/