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Internet Clicks Beat Old Guard

AP | ALAN FRAM | Posted 03.22.2012

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WASHINGTON — Outspent but hardly outgunned, online and high-tech companies triggered an avalanche of Internet clicks to force Congress to shelve...

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Chamber of Commerce's Secret SOPA Email

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 01.21.2012

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WASHINGTON -- The top intellectual property lawyer at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce appears to have sent out an email to underlings on Friday, notifyin...

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Reid Makes Big Decision On Anti-Piracy Bill

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 01.20.2012

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WASHINGTON -- In a significant victory for open Internet advocates, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and House Judiciary Committee Chairman ...

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Senate's McConnell Calls For PIPA Bill To Be 'Shelved'

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 01.19.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) urged Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Thursday to nix an upcoming vote on Protect ...

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Do SOPA and PIPA Conflict With State Dept.'s Global Internet Freedom Goals?

Corbin Hiar | Posted 03.20.2012

Read More: Center for Public Integrity, Pipa, The New Republic, Protect IP, Hillary Clinton, Alec Ross, State Department, Barack Obama, Sopa, Iwatch News, World News

If done wrong, anti-piracy legislation could restrict the rights of Internet users across the country -- and put U.S. diplomats in a very awkward position.

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SCOTUS Adds More Fuel to the Copyright Debate With Golan V. Holder

Christina Gagnier | Posted 03.19.2012

Read More: Public Domain, Supreme Court, Law, Congress, Copyright, Pipa, Copyright Law, Protect IP, Sopa, Golan v. Holder, Technology News

The case marked a continuance of the debate over the Copyright Clause of the United States Constitution that was broached in the 2003 Supreme Court decision in the Eldred v. Ashcroft case.

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Key Supporters Abandon Anti-Piracy Legislation

The Huffington Post | Luke Johnson | Posted 01.18.2012

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Joining other lawmakers, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) announced Wednesday that he would no longer support the Protect IP Act, amid widespread online prot...

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Obama Picks Sides In SOPA Fight Between Campaign Donors

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 01.18.2012

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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama entered the fray over two controversial anti-piracy bills with a Jan. 14 statement aligning the White House with ...

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Lawmakers Stand Up To SOPA And PIPA On Twitter

Posted 01.23.2012

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As over 7,000 websites go dark Wednesday to protest the Stop Online Piracy and Protect IP acts, a controversial pair of bills that could effectively s...

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Key Senator Abandons The Protect IP Ship

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 01.18.2012

Read More: Internet Blackout, Stop Online Piracy Act, Internet, Video, Marco Rubio, Tech Industry, Pipa, Dianne Feinstein, Protect IP, Disney, Hollywood, Sopa, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- With thousands of websites large and small blacked out Wednesday in protest of the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act, a House bill, and it...

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While the Net Goes Dark for SOPA and PIPA, Register to Vote

Christina Gagnier | Posted 03.19.2012

Read More: Internet, Activism, 2012 Election, Pipa, Political Activism, Elections 2012, Protect IP, Voting, Sopa, Stop Online Piracy Act, Sopa Blackout, Technology News

January 18 reflects the commitment of the technology community to take a stand when it comes to policies that would serve to cripple the openness and values that have made the Internet so robust.

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The Truth About SOPA: How the Corporate Lobby's Argument Doesn't Add Up

Joe Sestak | Posted 03.19.2012

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Don't be fooled by its seemingly straightforward title: SOPA is one of the greatest challenges to a free and open web that we've ever faced.

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SOPA BLACKOUT

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 01.20.2012

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Thousands of websites, including some of the most popular, are going dark today to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act, a bill which is designed to thw...

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Protests Planned To Counter Piracy Bill, Online And In Person

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 01.19.2012

Read More: Stop Online Piracy Act, Google, Politics, Schumer, Tech, Video, Economy, Pipa, Internet Censorship, Protest, Protests, Protect IP, Gillibrand, Sopa, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Google will join thousands of tech activists, entrepreneurs and corporations on Wednesday in protesting the proposed Stop Online Piracy ...

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A Brave New Fahrenheit 2012

Duncan Quirk | Posted 03.04.2012

Read More: Freedom of the Press, Civil Liberties, President Obama, Sopa, National Defense Authorization Act, Ndaa, Free Speech, Stop Online Piracy Act, First Amendment, Protect IP, Congress, Bad Legislation, 2012, Politics News

In a time where our government cannot come to a necessary bipartisan solution to save our country from economic collapse under enormous debt, it is astonishing how much support these pieces of legislation that diminish our civil rights are receiving.

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Fixing Protect IP

Jess Coleman | Posted 02.24.2012

Read More: Protect IP, Sopa, Sopa Protest, 2012: Our Election, Piracy, SOPA Bill, Sopa-Google, Sopa and Pipa Bills, High School News

While Protect IP and SOPA are significantly flawed, Congress should shake off the misguided criticism and move forward to combat the only big issue that is experiencing bipartisan support.

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What You Need to Know About the Stop Online Piracy Act in 2012

Alexander Howard | Posted 02.22.2012

Read More: Internet Freedom, Sopa, Internet, Stop Online Privacy Act, Protect IP, Protect Ip Act, Intellectual Property, Congress and Sopa, Sopa Information 2012, Internet Censorship, Video, Politics News

Whether the broadcast networks choose to cover it or not will matter less next year than it would have even a decade ago. The Internet will drive awareness of these bills in 2012 in a way that simply wasn't possible before this moment in history.

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Don't Break the Internet

Mark Lemley | Posted 02.20.2012

Read More: Internet, Ip, Online Piracy, Stop Online Piracy Act, Copyright Infringement, SOPA Bill, Protect Ip Act, Protect IP, Technology News

Copyright and trademark infringement on the Internet is a very real problem, and IP owners need tools to deal with that problem. But the power to break the Internet shouldn't be among them.

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Congress Threatens Foundation Of Internet

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 12.16.2011

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Ryan Grim contributed reporting WASHINGTON -- A month ago, Google lobbyist Katherine Oyama absorbed one of the more unusual congressional tongue-la...

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The Stop Online Piracy Act: Yet Another Stealth Maneuver to Control the Internet

John W. Whitehead | Posted 02.10.2012

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"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons ...

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Time to Occupy the Internet Before It's Too Late

Bob Cesca | Posted 02.08.2012

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There's a cold war of attrition being fought for the right to own the Internet, its content and its technology, and you're losing.

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Rupert Murdoch Lobbies Congress To Restrict Internet

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 12.08.2011

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WASHINGTON -- News Corp. honcho Rupert Murdoch threw his weight behind Congress' attempt to restrict the Internet, personally lobbying leaders on Capi...

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Lawmakers Fight Internet Censorship

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 12.02.2011

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WASHINGTON -- A bipartisan cadre of lawmakers proposed a new framework for an anti-piracy bill late Thursday night, hoping to derail leading legislati...

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Stop #SOPA: Using the Internet to Save the Internet

Patrick Ruffini | Posted 01.28.2012

Read More: Rand Paul, Lobbying, Nancy Pelosi, Darrell Issa House of Representatives, Tumblr, Startups, Protect IP, Internet Censorship, Sopa, Technology News

Everywhere this year, we're seeing the power of the instant activist. Insidery D.C. lobbying fights may be ripe for technology-driven disruption just like political campaigns were a decade ago.

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Filibuster Censorship: Senator Ron Wyden to Read Censorship Opponents' Names From Senate Floor

David Segal | Posted 01.22.2012

Read More: Protect IP, Coica, Wyden, Internet Freedom, Pipa, Demand Progress, Stop Online Piracy, Leahy, Internet Censorship, Sopa, Video, Technology News

Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) is going to be reading names of censorship opponents from the floor of the Senate during his expected filibuster of the PROTE...

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