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The Circuit: SOPA and PIPA, Sprint and LightSquared, Apple’s media event - Post Tech - The Washington Post
Online piracy: Online piracy will continue to lead the technology policy agenda in 2012, with more parties chiming in with their opinions on the Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect IP Act.
Edward J. Black: Thanks, Take Aways From Internet Revolution Over SOPA, PIPA
The hundreds of thousand of calls to Congress and millions of petition signatures opposing two controversial bills, SOPA and PIPA, have been characterized as a revolution.American University Intellectual Property Brief » Amidst SOPA and DMCA, Comedian Louis C.K. Speaks to Artists’ Relationship with Pirates
Popular comedian Louis C.K.
Wikipedia went down , denying access to the 85 million people who visit the site every day. Flickr users chose to black out over 200,000 photos.
One Per Cent: What was the impact of internet's blackout SOPA protest?
Why is the United States Congress trying to enact SOPA and PIPA? Because I am a pirate. That’s the simple fact of the matter: If piracy wasn’t such an issue for American rights holders (publishers, broadcasters, content creators), lobbies such as the RIAA and MPAA wouldn’t have donated millions of dollars to morally bankrupt Representatives and Senators and the Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect IP Act would still be swimming in the ether.
Why I pirate | ExtremeTech
Wednesday, January 18th was a big day for the Web. Americans stood up in opposition to PIPA and SOPA – bills that would censor the Web and impose harmful regulations on U.S. businesses.
End Piracy, Not Liberty – Google
SOPA and PIPA-Do you care? | Daily Host News
DAILYHOSTNEWS, January 11, 2012- The much hyped and talked about bills namely SOPA and PIPA have already stirred the internet with various online campaigns and discussions against them. Everyone’s eyes are set on D-day when the USA Congress will be voting on the internet censorship bill SOPA.SOPA, PIPA Blackouts Dominate Headlines, But What's the Impact? | News & Opinion | PCMag.com
The Internet blackouts to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) were big news yesterday, but what type of impact did they have? Google on Wednesday blacked out the logo on its homepage, and linked to an anti-SOPA/PIPA petition that called on Americans to oppose the bills because they'd "censor the Internet and slow economic growth."
Lockdown: The coming war on general-purpose computing - Boing Boing
This article is based on a keynote speech to the Chaos Computer Congress in Berlin, Dec. 2011. General-purpose computers are astounding. They're so astounding that our society still struggles to come to grips with them, what they're for, how to accommodate them, and how to cope with them.How SOPA Affects Students, Educators, and Libraries | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Big media groups like the MPAA and the RIAA have historically targeted college campuses with “anti-piracy” measures, and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) — the blacklist bill they’re trying to push through Congress — is no exception. The bill’s supporters insist that it targets only “rogue” foreign sites dedicated to piracy, but its vague language and overbroad enforcement methods all but ensure it could be used to stifle student and educator speech.It looks like the hashtags are paying off. As the House Judiciary Committee held hearings on the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in December, the powers of the internet—the web companies who innovate, the users who populate it—joined together to defend the idea of a free and open ’net. Now, because of the controversy and noise (more than 700,000 tweets and a million emails), there may no longer be the legislative will in the House to pass it, according to Rep.
PIPA is the new SOPA
The Stop Online Piracy Act ( SOPA ) is a United States bill introduced by U.S. Representative Lamar S. Smith (R-TX) to expand the ability of U.S. law enforcement to fight online trafficking in copyrighted intellectual property and counterfeit goods .
Stop Online Piracy Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Imagine that Ron Wyden fails: either PROTECT IP or SoPA / E-PARASITE passes and is signed into law by President Obama. Advocacy groups such as the EFF would launch an immediate constitutional challenge to the bill’s censorship mandates. I believe the outcome of such litigation is far less certain than either side believes.