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Mashable editor in chief Lance Ulanoff explores what SOPA would mean for content distribution on the web. It looks like 1994. Mashable editor in chief Lance Ulanoff explores what SOPA would mean for content distribution on the web. It looks like 1994. By Victoria Slind-Flor (This is a daily report on global news about patents, [...]

It is joining the Anti-SOPA/PIPA movement by participating in Wednesday January 18th's website access blackout. NEW YORK, Jan 17 – Shadowville.com, a well known provider of music instrumentals for free and for purchase, announced today that it will be Josh Wolford's comprehensive rundown of the SOPA/PIPA protest blackouts slated for tomorrow mentioned how some site [...]

Are there any real outside-the-beltway people who think it's a good idea? Instead, today's markup of SOPA in the House Judiciary committee was derailed by a snarky post on Twitter. (See CNET's FAQ on SOPA.) The tweet in question came from Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), a pro-gun, anti-abortion conservative who wrote that: "We are As [...]

both of whom oppose SOPA and the Protect IP Act, were among the lawmakers that are proposing the new bill, which is being called the OPEN Act. In a statement, the lawmakers suggested that the creation of a judicial remedy to combat online infringement both of whom oppose SOPA and the Protect IP Act, were [...]

There is opposition on both sides of the SOPA issue: One side is opposed to piracy, the other to government regulation of Internet domains. Thus far, the efforts to demonize piracy in the public mind by ballooning it into a global conspiracy to destroy Markham Erickson, executive director of NetCoalition, said that while his group [...]

It's little surprise that Web-based companies like Google, Facebook, and Twitter oppose SOPA, which is designed to make allegedly piratical Web sites virtually disappear from the Internet. They, and many civil liberties and human rights groups, The entertainment industry has long lobbied congress for tougher laws on piracy. It seems H.R. 3261, the Stop Online [...]

(Eric Gaillard – Reuters) A quick primer on SOPA from our tech blogger Cecilia Kang: The bill is a companion to the Senate's “Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act,” (Protect IP), but SOPA goes a As some of you know, I spent three plus hours this morning watching [...]

Curiously, however, the proposed SOPA anti-piracy legislation that has drawn such strong negative reactions from web-based service providers, could end up playing right into hackers' hands. Or so says Matthew Prince, co-founder and CEO of popular Internet giants place full-page anti-SOPA ad in NYT. By Cory Doctorow at 6:13 am Wednesday, Nov 16. Congress may [...]

The U.S. Congress is currently embroiled in a heated debated over the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), proposed legislation that supporters argue is needed combat online infringement, but critics fear would create the "great If you've been living under an Internet-free rock the past couple of weeks, you might have managed to miss the steady [...]

We've already articulated our stance on the PROTECT IP, SOPA, E-PARASITE, or whatever you want to call it bill, which creates a dangerous precedent of blacklisting domains and concentrates power on rights-holders, and Google Chairman Schmidt calls SOPA draconian. By Reuters / November 16, 2011 Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt waits to speak prior to [...]