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SOPA and PIPA Face Uphill Battle Due to Public Outcry
Yesterday, there was a 24-hour Internet blackout and widespread protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) before the House and the Protect IP Act (PIPA) before the Senate. The unprecedented protest of these two bills had the full support of Wikipedia, Google, Facebook, and countless other influential websites, businesses, and individuals. Wikipedia provided users with the contact information for their Senators and Congressmen and displayed the following message in lieu of the normal Wikipedia result:
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Still Not Clear on SOPA & PIPA? Infographic w/Simple Explanations
January 18, 2012 by Olivier Blanchard If you like this blog and others like it, don’t support SOPA or any of its variants.
SOPA, PIPA and bills like them want to kill this blog. And yours
Clay Shirky: Sopa and Pipa would create a consumption-only internet | Comment is free
'Sites will be forced to spy on their users, all the time, to make sure you are not talking about sites media firms in the US do not want you to talk about.'
Post-SOPA: the path forward for addressing piracy
The number of high-quality services that "compete with free" is growing—and some of the credit is certainly due to the major content conglomerates, which have made it easier to license and use their digital material.
5 best songs against SOPA
I'm sure you've heard by now that SOPA is bad and would ruin the Internet, but have you actually read the bill?
Why SOPA Is Dangerous
There has been some small celebration over the last few days about what appears, at first glance, to be a victory of anti-SOPA activists against the legislative disaster that is the Stop Online Piracy Act: White House releases statement against SOPA; asks for refined legislation this year -- The White House stated, "We must avoid creating new cybersecurity risks or disrupting the underlying architecture of the Internet." DNS provision pulled from SOPA, victory for opponents -- The bill's provision to muck with the DNS infrastructure will reportedly be removed.
5 reasons why SOPA, PROTECT-IP and other legislative idiocy will never die
Industry Suppressed Report Showing Users Of Shuttered 'Pirate' Site Probably Helped Movie Industry...
We've seen study after study after study after study after study showing, contrary to the claim of the industry and certain politicians that users of file sharing sites are pure "freeloaders" who are "leeching," that the users tend to be larger spenders on media and ancillary products.
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SOPA Sponsor Lamar Smith’s Campaign Website Violated Copyright Laws
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Cheezburger Sites To Be Blacked Out January 18 To Protest SOPA and PIPA
Ben Huh, CEO of the popular Cheezburger Network, tweeted Thursday that the network will be blacking itself out January 18 to protest the two bills Congress is working to pass that would, among other things, encourage domain name filtering against web sites deemed to be dedicated to copyright and trademark infringement.On January 6th, the copyright-reform organization Public Knowledge sent out an e-mail to supporters urging them to take action to oppose the Protect IP Act. "Find a town hall meeting by joining our Meetup Group," the email said.
Is a pro-PIPA lobbying group guilty of e-mail "content theft?"
At 9:30pm PST on February 11, US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) seized the domain mooo.com.
Silicon Valley Congresswoman: Web seizures trample due process (and break the law)
The Danger of an Attack on Piracy Online
Stay with me here. SOPA deals with technical digital issues that may seem to be a sideshow but could become crucial to American media and technology businesses and the people who consume their products.SOPA destructive of DNS
The Danger of an Attack on Piracy Online
Stay with me here. SOPA deals with technical digital issues that may seem to be a sideshow but could become crucial to American media and technology businesses and the people who consume their products.How SOPA would affect you: FAQ | Privacy Inc.
When Rep. Lamar Smith announced the Stop Online Piracy Act in late October, he knew it was going to be controversial. But the Texas Republican probably never anticipated the broad and fierce outcry from Internet users that SOPA provoked over the last few months.Cnet/CBS distributer of p2pand pro SOPA?