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MPAA Chairman Calls SOPA Blackouts a ‘Dangerous’ Gimmick
If you thought that today's blackout by Wikipedia, Reddit, the Cheezburger Network and other sites was a legitimate political protest against SOPA and PIPA,...
Irony Alert: Congressman Who Wrote SOPA Violated Copyright Law
Lamar Smith (R-TX), the chief sponsor of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), cares very much about holding copyright violators accountable for their actions —...
Don’t Understand SOPA? Help Is Close at Hand
With Wikipedia, Reddit and other sites offline today in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act, you might be wondering "What's so bad about SOPA, anyway?"...
SOPA Protests Gain Steam as Web Activists Flex Growing Clout
Internet-based protests against a pair of controversial anti-piracy bills gained momentum Wednesday, as several lawmakers dropped their support in the face of...
SOPA Boycotting Made Easy with New Android App
Having trouble keeping track of which companies you want to boycott to protest their support of the Stop Online Piracy Act? As the slogan goes, there's an app...
Sorry, Folks: Game Publishers Didn't 'Drop' SOPA Support
Last week, some tech and gaming publications reported that Sony, Nintendo and Electronic Arts had "dropped" support for SOPA, a bill that would allow the...
GoDaddy Boycott over SOPA Support Still On, Exodus Looms
Too little, too late — that's the message some customers plan to send Internet domain registrar GoDaddy today, after the company gave its support to the...
Go Daddy Reverses Position on SOPA, Yanks Support
In view of increasing online outrage over statements supporting the Stop Online Privacy Act, Go Daddy just announced it's reversing its position and no longer...
TechFast: SOPA Backlash, Google’s Music Store, Tablet Wars
Good morning and happy Thursday. Here's what's going on in tech so far...
Paint It Black: 7 Ways You Can Protest SOPA and PIPA
So it's lights out for Wikipedia, a blacked-over logo for Google, Reddit closing up for 12 hours and thousands of others shuttering to protest the Stop Online...
Did It Work? ‘Day After’ Results of the SOPA, PIPA Blackout
Google's dropped its logo-shroud, Wikipedia's returned from limbo, normal service in general has been resumed and all's right with the world...except that SOPA...
Why We Won’t See Many Protests like the SOPA Blackout
The SOPA blackout protest last week was an unprecedented event. Its massive success surprised even the activists who spurred the protest. So does this mean that...
SOPA Opera, Republican Presidential Candidates Edition
I expect that it will have little bearing on the outcome of the Republican primaries, but I was surprised by the conversation in last night’s debate about the...
SOPA Officially 'Postponed' Until Further Notice – PIPA, Too
Representative Lamar Smith (R-Tex.) released a statement saying he'd be shelving the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) bill he'd authored in light of recent...
SOPA: Reddit Confirms January 18 Blackout, Wikipedia and Others May Follow
It's on — at least partially: Reddit has announced that it will be going dark for 12 hours to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act, and Wikipedia founder Jimmy...
SOPA: What if Google, Facebook and Twitter Went Offline in Protest?
Can you imagine a world without Google or Facebook? If plans to protest the potential passing of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) come to fruition, you won't...
GoDaddy Threatened by Boycott for Supporting SOPA
2011 hasn't been the easiest of years for GoDaddy.com's public relations team. First, it had to deal with Internet backlash after a video of its CEO shooting...
‘Anonymous’ Blacks Out the Internet in Response to SOPA Debate
The government debate over the Stop Online Piracy Act may have taken a break for the holidays, with the hearings in the House of Representatives apparently...
SOPA Won’t Stop Online Piracy, Would Censor Everyone Else
In short, SOPA, if passed, would allow the U.S. government to blacklist any website found to have infringing material, inhibiting access to those sites using DNS...
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Following the creation of an online system allowing users to automate calls to their local representative to protest the PROTECT-IP Act and Stop Online Piracy...
