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SOPA and PIPA Are Not Quite Dead Yet
While some may view the shelving of the infamous piracy bills as the death of both SOPA and PIPA, both bills remain alive with active supporters in bo...
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70 Groups Send Open Letter To Congress Regarding SOPA/PIPA
SOPA and PIPA may have been shelved, but the groups involved with initial protest feel that the threat is far from over. Seventy groups, most of them ...
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Paulo Coelho on SOPA: ‘Pirate Everything I’ve Ever Written!’
During the entire SOPA/PIPA/ACTA ongoing ordeal, all you have heard about were the movie studios in Hollywood feeling butt hurt about people ripping t...
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Is TPP Worse Than SOPA, PIPA & ACTA?
First there was SOPA, then there was PIPA. The Internet beat those back. Then along came ACTA inciting protests around the world. Up next is something...
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SOPA: Money Isn’t Always Power
The recent Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) are perfect examples of how common interest can prevail despite ...
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The Entertainment Industry Is Actually Booming, So… Why SOPA?
That headline is a bit reductive as it should end “Why SOPA, PIPA, Bill C-11, OPEN, et al.?” but that’s what the actual article is f...
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SOPA Blackout Day By The Numbers [Infographic]
Frugal Dad has put out an infographic breaking down SOPA blackout day (January 18) by the numbers. “The Wikipedia blackout was seen by 160 milli...
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Is OPEN Better than SOPA?
During the initial SOPA hearings, the mockery that they were, Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon, one of the loudest opponents to the Stop Online Piracy Act,...
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SOPA Was Only the Beginning: ACTA Gets International Push Back
As we touched on earlier, as members of the European Union sign ACTA into something of an existence — it still requires ratification from the Eu...
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SOPA/PIPA: The Aftermath of Web Blackout, ACTA, & What’s Next
Even though the SOPA and PIPA bills are essentially dead, they are still getting a lot of attention. Last week, the U.S. witnessed a powerful expressi...
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Bill C-11: SOPA’s Canadian Hellspawn
Blocked websites. Infinite copyrights. Draconian entertainment industries. Judicial targeting of “pirate” sites. Users’ loss of Inte...
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Anonymous Protests Irish SOPA, Sees Results
Anonymous is targeting Irish government Web sites over their own version of SOPA. The country is looking to bring into law their own version of SOPA b...
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President Obama Doesn’t Support SOPA, But Signs ACTA?
Move over SOPA, tell ACTA the news? Or is this more of a case of “move over SOPA, it’s ACTA time?” Or does, “Stop! ACTA time!&...
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Bill Maher Loves SOPA, Amazing 8 Year Old Guitarist, and Laser Cannons
A viral video is one that becomes popular through the process of Internet sharing, via social media, sharing sites, or good ‘ole email. Everyday we ...
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SOPA Protests, Wikipedia Blackout Visualized Through Tweets
If you wanted to make the declarative statement “Last Wednesday’s internet SOPA / PIPA protests killed SOPA & PIPA,” there exis...
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Jimmy Wales Says Chris Dodd Should Be Fired, Dodd Softens On SOPA Protesters
Speaking at the DLD conference in Munich this morning, Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales didn’t mince words on the subject of former Senator and cur...
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Wikipedia Founder Talks SOPA, Receives Funding
Wikipedia made bank this morning when the foundation received $1 million on stage during the Digital Life Design conference. This morning on the DLD s...
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EFF Held An AMA Q&A Today On Reddit About SOPA, PIPA, et al.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation‘s activism team visited the land of Reddit today with a mission: (image)@EFFEFFThe EFF activism team is doing...
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SOPA and PIPA Bills Lack Common Sense
Did you know that a majority of new laws passed on our books in this country get passed via the efforts of special interest groups and lobbyists? What...
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Open Marriage, SOPA, and Obama Singing Al Green
Twitter is a wonderful place for one-liners. To be funny on the site, you’ve got to be sharp and practice economy of language. You’ve only got 140...
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Facebook Expresses Relief At SOPA / PIPA Delay
Facebook has expressed their relief this afternoon at the House and Senate decisions to delay action on SOPA and PIPA for the time being. Here is the ...
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