According to my sources, an addition to SOPA is in the works. This addition is spearheaded by the Retail Industry Association of America(RIAA), text taken from an early internal draft:
"The problem of shoplifting is a widespread scourge in the retail industry. Shoplifting costs business owners billions of dollars every year, and hurts consumers as well. To make matters worse, many jobs are lost.
We believe that the general principles of SOPA can be applied to the retail industry with some small additions. Shoplifters often live in apartment buildings, where they stash and consume their loot. It is only fair that the owner of the building is responsible for its tenants belongings.
Our modest proposal is that, if a tenant is found to be a shoplifter, all tenants of the apartment building in question should be evicted to prevent further crime. Furthermore, the address of the building should be removed from all maps to prevent accomplices from visiting. All payments to and from the owner of the building should be stopped.
These measures should stay in place until the owner has put safeguards in place to prevent further crime.
Since it can be difficult to prove that someone is shoplifting, we believe that mere suspicion should be enough to start the above procedure. If further investigation proves the allegations wrong, the measures taken can be reversed with no harm done.
We would also like to use this opportunity to state that we are committed to fair, reasonable and balanced law for the general public, complemented by voluntary ethical conduct code for the retail industry itself.
Noh Wan - on behalf of
RIAA"
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