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Key Anti-Piracy Bill Backer: SOPA Is 'Dead'

Bloomberg | Eric Engleman | Posted 04.12.2012

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Hollywood-backed legislation to fight online piracy, shelved this year after an Internet protest led by Google Inc. (GOOG) and Wikipedia, is "dead," s...

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The MPAA Dinosaur and the SOPA Debacle

Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 04.02.2012

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Hoyt Hilsman

Instead of trying to shut down popular websites and punish their opponents -- and their own customers -- Hollywood should take an entirely different approach to the digital revolution.

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PIPA And SOPA Were Stopped, But the Web Hasn't Won

Art Brodsky | Posted 03.26.2012

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Art Brodsky

Web community, bask briefly in your glory. Then get back to work, because the next industry-sponsored bill to curb technology will be here before you know it, and they might be smarter next time about how they pursue it.

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Moses, Media Piracy and the MPAA

Marty Kaplan | Posted 06.03.2011

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Marty Kaplan

Not only is there no evidence that anti-piracy education programs build a stronger "culture of intellectual property." There's also little evidence that enforcement works -- splashy raids haven't reduced piracy.

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Hollywood Follows Wall Street?

Richard Grenell | Posted 05.25.2011

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Richard Grenell

Sending Chris Dodd to Washington means Hollywood is looking to replicate Wall Street's behavior of the last decade. Dodd gave us the multi-billion dollar bailouts and failures at the taxpayers' expense.

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Chris Dodd Named Head Of MPAA

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Former Sen. Chris Dodd of Connecticut is taking over as head of the Motion Picture Association of America. The group on Tuesday name...

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