PIPA is to be voted on this week. SOPA is still being “studied.” While there is no doubt that piracy exists on the Internet, these bills are definitely not the answer. Five reasons the Internet’s still protesting SOPA and PIPA…
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Not beating a dead horse. SOPA and PIPA live
SOPA and PIPA are not dead. More action needed
Despite recent hearings in which sponsors admitted that more research is needed, these bills are far from dead and are still being pushed hard by special interest groups. Make no mistake, these bills require content filtering and blocking of certain…
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SOPA stopped – for now…
ue to a massive effort on the part of many thousands concerned with Individual and small business rights on the Internet (and even some large businesses and Internet pioneers too), SOPA has been stopped for now. But we know this…
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An Open Letter From Internet Engineers to the U.S. Congress | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Please read and consider this carefully. I was honored to be allowed to sign this letter, and believe every word of it. One correction, InterCon was the first INTERNET applications company on the Macintosh platform, not the first applications company.…
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Adding Serious Teeth to the Badness Inherrent in SOPA and PROTECT-IP
The message that should be sent loudly and clearly to both the government and the Content Cartel is that you can’t have it both ways. Either intellectual property should be treated identically to real property, including penalties for its theft…
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KeepTheWebOpen.com – Lawmakers Asking For Our Help
In a very interesting maneuver, several legislators have banded together to offer an alternative to PROTECT-IP and SOPA, called OPEN. They have drafted legislation that they offer as a starting point, and are asking for the people to weigh in.…
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How is a Song Unlike a Purse?
Not surprisingly, the huge backlash against SOPA has produced a set of compromises. But are they still missing the point? Can we afford to continue treating intellectual property the same way as we treat physical goods? Is it time to…
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Can you Have “Fair Use” if a Work is Copy Protected?
One of the most important aspects of the copyright system is that of “fair use.” In a nutshell, fair use is the ability to incorporate a small portion of a copyrighted work for non commercial purposes. For example, a news…
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So What’s So Bad About SOPA?
This piece, excellent work as usual by Jonathan Zittrain et al, explains more about why SOPA is so very dangerous to the Internet as we know it, and to all the innovation that has created it, and could be created…
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Quite the interesting theory of copyright law…
The world wide marketplace has also brought about a virtually instantaneous method of complaining about products and services that the consumer feels are sub-par. In the “olden days,” you had to use word of mouth to pass around that a…
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