If you’re sitting there thinking to yourself, “Self, I just haven’t read enough self-serving blather & disingenuous crap today”, then have I got the webpage for you! Cary Sherman, CEO of the RIAA, has an editorial in The New York Times that will satisfy your needs:

While no legislation is perfect, the Protect Intellectual Property Act (or PIPA) was carefully devised, with nearly unanimous bipartisan support in the Senate, and its House counterpart, the Stop Online Piracy Act (or SOPA), was based on existing statutes and Supreme Court precedents. But at the 11th hour, a flood of e-mails and phone calls to Congress stopped the legislation in its tracks. Was this the result of democracy, or demagoguery?

Ugh. I really like what Myrrh Larsen said on Twitter about this:

Fully raged out at @RIAA boss Cary Sherman’s @nytimes op/ed until the last 2 paragraphs… …in which the camera pans back & we see his business associates holding a gun to his head. A single drop of sweat falls between the keys.

That’s a short film I’d pay to see.