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President Obama on debate over the SOPA
As readers of this blog will know, the debate over the Stop Piracy Online Act ( SOPA ) has been heating up.from the wow,-that's-chutzpah dept
SOPA/PIPA Supporters Pretend White House Statement Means We Can Rush Through SOPA/PIPA | Techdirt
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Media baron Rupert Murdoch used his new Twitter account this weekend to attack the Obama Administration's opposition to parts of proposed legislation designed to combat Internet piracy. "So Obama has thrown in his lot with Silicon Valley paymasters who threaten all software creators with piracy, plain thievery," News Corp's chairman and chief executive officer posted on his personal Twitter account Saturday. Murdoch, whose media empire includes Fox TV, The Wall Street Journal, Fox Studios and the Sun newspaper in Britain, continued with several tweets, attacking Google as the "Piracy leader" for streaming movies free.
Rupert Murdoch turns to Twitter to attack Obama
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The purchaser of a licence for a program is entitled, as a rule, to observe, study or test its functioning so as to determine the ideas and principles which underlie that program
Threat Level - Privacy, Crime and Security Online | Wired.com
Hollywood studios want a federal judge to preserve data on all the 66.6 million users of Megaupload, the file-sharing service that was shuttered in January due to federal indictments targeting its operators.
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Obama’s anti-SOPA stance seeks compromise to Silicon Valley-Hollywood standoff | VentureBeat
Updated with response from the pro-SOPA lobby
The good news about the White House’s response to an anti-SOPA petition is that it raised the discussion to the level of principles, arguing against “disrupting the underlying architecture of the Internet.”
Shifting the discussion to principles « BuzzMachine
In a statement on behalf of the Obama administration this morning, a trio of senior officials including the nation's Chief Technology Officer made clear that any anti-piracy legislation passing the President's desk would not create risks of censorship, nor would it condone any alterations to the Internet's domain name system that could invite security dangers.
White House Strangles SOPA, Citing Censorship, Security Concerns
The Obama administration has joined the ranks of skeptics of the Stop Online Piracy Act.
Obama administration joins the ranks of SOPA skeptics
By Victoria Espinel, Aneesh Chopra, and Howard Schmidt
Obama Administration responds to We the People petitions on SOPA and online piracy | The White House