Reply #39: If the bill passes, then Americans need to boycott the media companies.

[JDPriestly]

Simply stop purchasing CDs, etc.

Stop watching TV. End your subscriptions to cable.

I have been asking people to stop consuming these products for a long time.

Of course, I think that if fair use of copyrighted material is ended on the internet, a lot of sales of products will be lost anyway.

There was a time, for example, when excerpts from Fox News were more common on DU. Who bothers now that Fox wants to restrict access to their material.

We used to get a lot more clips and quotes from some other news sources also. But nobody bothers if they have to pay to get into the website.

Best way to change this law is to stop using the media. You can still quote from a printed book that you own or borrow from the library. That will be the way to go in the future.

I never download large quantities of copyrighted material without paying for it. That, it seems to me, is not the issue here. Rather they owners of the material want to end the fair use doctrine as I understand the OP. They are crazy to do that. They will lose customers in the end.