It’s a good thing that SOPA and PIPA have been put on hold indefinitely by yesterday’s digital tantrum. Nothing delights me more than imagining a dark cloud of popular anger sweeping over Washington’s lobbyists, forcing them to scuttle like vermin from whatever evil-doings they were up to. The whole episode reminds me of the unanticipated fireball of popular outrage that destroyed John McCain’s attempt in 2007 to pass a sweeping amnesty bill.

But the whole thing was just a digital tantrum, and several commentators are correct in noting that while these sorts of outbursts have their place, the tech industry needs to devise a long-term strategy for defeating the entertainment industry weasels once and for all. And it’s not about my antisemitism or my dot-communist aversion to paying for intellectual property. They’re a genuine threat to free expression and need to be defeated.

But how?

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