Talk with the Editor Online piracy is a threat Andy Samberg Neil Gaiman Trent Reznor Aziz Ansari Adam Savage & More Tell Congress Don't Pass PIPA Or SOPA In Our Names Web Activists’ Assault On AntiPiracy Bills Sends Supporters Fleeing Translating Chris Dodd's Sanctimonious Bluster Internet Protests Into English Websites plan protest of antipiracy measures Senator Ron Wyden To The Thank You For Speaking Up... But We're Not Done Yet Marco Rubio Dropping His CoSponsorship Of Wikipedia Blackout Protest Has Plenty Company hearing to resume even in face opposition Google Goes Big With Its SOPA/PIPA Protests; Blacks Out Logo Why today's blackouts are working Mozilla Firefox join antiSOPA strike Opera White House Shuts Down Proposed Bill Lamar Smith MPAA Brush

Why SOPA and PIPA Won't Stop Real Piracy Supporters of the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA (and its Senate-sister the Protect Intellectual Property Act, PIPA) legislation -- like the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) -- argue that legislation is needed because online piracy puts jobs and industries at risk. Key facts about U.S. online piracy bills SOPA and PIPA (Reuters) - The House of Representative's Stop Online Piracy Act and the Senate's Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act have generated fierce opposition within the technology community. Here are some facts about the bills: What would SOPA and PIPA do? ** The legislation, known as SOPA in the U.S. House of Representatives and PIPA in the ... Hollywood, Silicon Valley face off over piracy bill US congressional support for legislation targeting online piracy was eroding as Wikipedia and Google led an online onslaught and branded the bills a danger to Internet freedom. How To Fix Online Piracy And online piracy, like anything else, can be overcome with the right amount of resources. The question is do companies really want to spend what it will take to solve this problem? Is the return on investment worth it? Or do publishers, like so many other industries, just take a reserve for these losses and invest their efforts elsewhere. Senators drop support of piracy bill after protests Support for two online piracy bills in Congress appeared to wane Wednesday after opponents of the legislation staged a dramatic protest in which vast swaths of the Web effectively went dark . Visitors to Wikipedia who tried to search the online encyclopedia's usually trivia-filled pages were instead greeted by a message informing them that the bills could "fatally damage the free and open ... We Don't Need SOPA. But We Need Anti-Piracy Legislation As many internet users are just discovering today by either visiting Google or trying to visit Wikipedia or Reddit, the tech community has lined up against the controversial SOPA and PIPA acts, twin bills designed to curb online piracy. They're bad bills, and should be stopped. They're vague, allow for too much power to be put in centralized sources, and contain dangerous wiggle room that could ... Web Protests Piracy Bill, and 2 Key Senators Change Course Senator Marco Rubio, Republican of Florida, announced he would no longer back the anti-Internet piracy legislation he had co-sponsored. Senator John Cornyn, a Texas Republican, quickly followed suit. Backers desert anti-piracy bill Eight US lawmakers withdraw their backing from anti-piracy laws being considered in Congress amid "blackout" protests on thousands of internet sites. Blackout Builds Movement Against Anti-Piracy Laws Thousands of internet sites are taking part in a "blackout" protest against anti-piracy laws being discussed in Congress... Protests Against Web Piracy Bills Planned in New York, San Francisco Protests over controversial anti-piracy legislation escalated, as opponents planned demonstrations in New York and San Francisco, lawmakers took sides, and websites including Wikipedia staged a blackout.
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