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Google vs. Hollywood: The Worst of Enemies, The Best of Friends (Potentially)

Robert Simpson | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Richard O'Dwyer, Google, Congress, TV Shack, Film Industry, Megaupload, Spotify, Cinema, Stop Online Piracy Act, Protect Ip Act, Itunes, Lovefilm, Dvd, Illegal Downloading, Netflix, Silicon Valley, Hollywood, Media News

The battle raging between the big Hollywood film studios and the giant of Silicon Valley is probably the most pointless and futile conflict being rage...

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Issa Leaks Secret Document To Pressure Obama On Trade Deal

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Big Pharma, Tpp, Ip, Acta, Economy, Darrell Issa, Manufacturing, Free Trade, Jobs, Buy America, Trans-Pacific Partnership, Barack Obama, Buy American, Sopa, Stop Online Piracy Act, Intellectual Property, Video, Trade, Trans-Pacific, Patents, Patent Reform, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) has taken the unprecedented step of leaking a secret U.S. trade document, in ...

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SOPA: Who's On Music's Side?

Stephan Jenkins | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: SOPA Bill, Stop Online Piracy Act, Sopa Music, Sopa Vote, Pipa, Sopa Legislation, Sopa Musicians, Sopa, Satire, San Francisco News

The old entertainment conglomerates (who have been ripping off musicians forever) and the new tech establishment (who's just learning) had a fight recently, and free speech won -- sort of.

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"We're the New Green Movement," Says Pirate Party Founder

Elisabeth Braw | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Online Piracy, Stop Online Piracy Act, Elections, European Union, Pirate Party, Green Movement, Labor Movement, Rick Falkvinge, Sopa, World News

It has branches in some 50 countries. It has members of parliaments and city councils. The Pirate Party, founded only five years ago, is today's fastest-growing party among voters under 30. Its core message: internet piracy should be legal.

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Reconsidering the Stop Online Piracy Act

Eric K. Clemons | Posted 04.22.2012

Read More: Stop Online Piracy Act, Digital Media, Internet Piracy, Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Online Piracy, Dmca, Sopa, Technology News

Eventually, Congress will have to consider SOPA. Here we suggest several questions that Congress will need to address and very short suggestions of what we expect they will conclude.

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Keeping SOPA Measures Out of Trade Agreements ACTA, TPP

Edward J. Black | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Stop Online Piracy Act, Copyright Infringement, Pipa, Piracy, Trade. SOPA, Internet Freedom, Economy, Internet Censorship, Acta, Tpp, Innovation, Technology, Technology News

Internet users realized during the debate over SOPA and its companion bill, PIPA, that because they were not at the table, they were on the menu. Vowing 'never again,' they have thus set their sights on ACTA.

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The KerPUNK Festival and the Power of the Internet

Melissa Webster | Posted 04.02.2012

The Festival was officially named by punk rock icon Larry Livermore, the music producer credited with discovering Green Day.

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Constitution Check: When the Internet Went Dark, What Was the Constitutional Meaning?

Lyle Denniston | Posted 04.01.2012

Read More: Stop Online Piracy Act, Golan v. Holder, Eldred v. Ashcroft, Rebecca MacKinnon, Sopa Blackout, Sopa, Politics News

January 18 may well go down in history as the dawn of a new age of First Amendment-shielded political agitation via the Web, but at the same time as the twilight of constitutional protection for "the public domain."

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The Debate Over Anti-Piracy Laws

Toni Johnson | Posted 04.01.2012

Read More: Sopa and Pipa Bills, Sopa and Pipa, Megaupload Shut Down, Anti-Piracy Laws, Internet Piracy, Megaupload, Stop Online Piracy Act, Technology News

Since the future of SOPA and PIPA is largely in doubt, industry and lawmakers are left looking for a path forward. But the debate is not confined to the United States; digital piracy is increasingly being touted as an international trade concern.

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Protecting Internet Democracy

Brian Fox | Posted 03.31.2012

Read More: Google, Stop Online Piracy Act, Internet, Internet Privacy, Internet Freedom, Eli Pariser, Pipa, Online Freedom, Online Privacy, Sopa, Syria, Technology News

The best way to protect and even promote democracy is to protect the freedom of the Internet. While SOPA has created a stir publicly, we must be vigilant about even some of the "conveniences" we are presented with, lest we all break the law of unintended consequences.

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Only a Smarter Congress Can Make Better Internet Policy

The Sunlight Foundation | Posted 03.28.2012

Read More: Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, Pipa, Sopa, Stop Online Piracy Act, Internet, Internet Piracy, Online Piracy, Politics News

Getting citizens involved will make Congress pay attention, but not every issue is a SOPA, where the internet shuts down in protest. Most issues fly below the radar. Only an empowered, capable Congress can make decisions.

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Common Sense vs. Piracy

Pasha Adam | Posted 01.26.2012

Read More: Stop Online Piracy Act, Television, Itunes, Netflix, Online Piracy, Sopa, TV News

Over the last ten years technology has changed. The way people want to consume television has changed. And yet Hollywood is moving at a snail's pace when it comes to revolutionizing the business model.

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What's Behind Washington's About Face On Internet Piracy

Kevin Bermeister | Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Stop Online Piracy Act, Protect Intellectual Property Act, Internet, Pipa, Internet Service Providers, Online Piracy, Internet Piracy, Megaupload, Kim Dotcom, Isp, Sopa, Technology News

Behind the SOPA legislative scene a very different and highly competitive industrial-scale battle is being fought by publishers of the web's content, Internet service providers (the final distributors of content) and copyright owners, including Hollywood.

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Piracy Shmiracy: We Need New 21st Century Business Models

John Tarnoff | Posted 03.26.2012

Read More: Media Business, Stop Online Piracy Act, Entertainment, Pipa, Online Piracy, Mpaa, Chris Dodd, Movies, Sopa, Media News

The MPAA and NATO are panicking because they don't know how to replace revenues lost not to piracy, but to newer commercial content platforms like Netflix or YouTube. This is a better explanation for the brinksmanship over the now-tabled SOPA/PIPA legislation.

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

Art Brodsky | Posted 03.26.2012

Read More: Chris Dodd Mpaa, Public Knowledge, Pipa, SOPA Bill, Online Piracy, Stop Online Piracy Act, Sopa, Technology News

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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The Real SOPA Opera Should Be ID Theft

Adam Levin | Posted 03.25.2012

Read More: Wikipedia, Google, Twitter, Lobbyists, Grassroots, Identity Theft, Pipa, SOPA Bill, Facebook, Privacy, Sopa, Stop Online Piracy Act, Aol, Sopa Pipa, Data, Data Breaches, Youtube, Politics News

While we contemplate the gargantuan battle of the content vs. technology worlds, we must not forget an equally serious, actually even more serious example of online piracy.

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Hollywood Lobbyist To Politicians: Don't Count On 'Support' If You Opposed SOPA

| Will Evans | Posted 01.24.2012

Read More: SOPA Boxer, Stop Online Piracy Act, Anti-Piracy, SOPA Berman, SOPA California, Video, SOPA Campaign Contributions, SOPA California Politicians, SOPA Hollywood, SOPA Internet, SOPA Politicians, Sopa, SOPA Contributions, Los Angeles News

California Watch. By Will Evans Hollywood is threatening politicians with one thing they hold very dear: campaign cash. As anti-piracy legisl...

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Internet Clicks Beat Old Guard

AP | ALAN FRAM | Posted 03.22.2012

Read More: Google Sopa, Google, Stop Online Piracy Act, Protect Ip Act, Video, Piracy, Pipa, Mpaa, Sopa Blackout, Protect IP, Chris Dodd, Stop Online Piracy, Sopa and Pipa Bills, Sopa, Politics News

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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Hollywood Lobbyist Chris Dodd Lobs Money Threat At President Obama

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 01.19.2012

Read More: Stop Online Piracy Act, Video, SOPA Bill, Chris Dodd, Chris Dodd Sopa, Barack Obama, Hollywood, Campaign Finance, Motion Picture Association of America, Sopa, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Hell hath no fury like a lobbyist scorned. Former Democratic senator and current head of the Motion Picture Association of America Chris...

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SOPA Saved Us

Noah Fitzgerel | Posted 03.20.2012

Read More: Pipa, Google-Sopa, Wikipedia-Sopa, Millenials SOPA, Teens and SOPA, Sopa, Stop Online Piracy Act, Protect Ip Act, 2012: Our Election, High School News

It might seem strange to read, but to a certain extent, it is evident that SOPA (the Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (the PROTECT IP Act) have saved my generation from being portrayed as the paradigm of political disinterest.

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SOPA Protests: In Internet-DRIVEN Activism, It's the Customers and Users Who Matter

Colin Delany | Posted 03.20.2012

Read More: Stop Online Piracy Act, Google, Wikipedia, Congress, Online Advocacy, Copyright, Activism, Lobbying, Pipa, Intellectual Property, Lolcats, Sopa, Video, Politics News

Here's an angle that just occurred to me about yesterday's widespread online protests against the "Stop Online Piracy Act": normally we talk about dig...

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SOPA Showdown: What's Next In The Battle Between Hollywood And Silicon Valley

HuffingtonPost.com | Bianca Bosker | Posted 01.18.2012

Read More: Sopa Protest, Stop Online Piracy Act, Protect Ip Act, Video, PIPA Protest, Pipa, Sopa and Pipa, Sopa and Pipa Bills, Hollywood, Sopa, Silicon Valley, Technology News

As controversial anti-piracy legislation lost key supporters amid online protests Wednesday, some experts said the best course of action for major med...

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Key Supporters Abandon Anti-Piracy Legislation

The Huffington Post | Luke Johnson | Posted 01.18.2012

Read More: Internet Blackout, Marco Rubio, Roy Blunt, Pipa, Sopa Blackout, Protect IP, Sopa, Censored, Stop Online Piracy Act, Protect Ip Act, Video, Piracy, Orrin Hatch, Blackout, Sopa and Pipa Bills, Censorship, Politics News

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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WATCH: Glenn Beck Weighs In On SOPA

The Huffington Post | Alana Horowitz | Posted 03.19.2012

Read More: Stop Online Piracy Act, Video, Pipa, Sopa Blackout, Glenn Beck, Glenn Beck Sopa, Piracy Bills, Fox Sopa, Sopa, Media News

And now, the SOPA commentary you've all been waiting for. Glenn Back slammed the controversial anti-piracy bill on his internet talk show on Wednes...

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WATCH: A Video Test of SOPA and PIPA Powers

Matthew Filipowicz | Posted 03.19.2012

Read More: Comedy, Stop Online Piracy Act, Pipa, Protect Ip Act, Satire, Sopa, Parody, Net Neutrality, Stopsopa, Video, Comedy News

We have obtained exclusive video of the government testing the potential powers that it would be granted under SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act and PIPA, the Protect IP Act.

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