SOPA and PIPA Part II: The Revenge of Big Content

Hollywood’s top lobbyist, former Senator Chris Dodd, followed a familiar script last week after sweeping online protests derailed the Stop Online Piracy Act (Sopa) …

The Top 3 Reasons Why the Feds Seized Megaupload

A week ago the US government dropped the hammer on the nearly 4% of the world’s web traffic passing though the Megaupload “cyberlocker”, seizing …

Filesharing Music in a Web 2.0 World: Is The PROTECT IP Act Missing the Message?

In the late 1960s, Marshall McLuhan wrote extensively on the importance of understanding the “messages” of technology as we look to understand ourselves in …

PROTECT IP Act would cost taxpayers $47 million & private sector even more

via arstechnica The Congressional Budget Office has released a new estimate of the cost of the PROTECT IP Act, the controversial legislation to force …

The Sweeping Implications of the “E-PARASITE” / “Stop Online Piracy” Act [VIDEO]

  The latest wave of Big Content’s never-ending war on copyright infringement is the Stop Online Piracy / E PARASITE Act, which was introduced in …

Ousted Penn State President: Students Downloading Music is Morally Reprehensible. Pedophilia, Not So Much.

Together with football coach Joe Paterno, Penn State University president and RIAA enthusiast Graham Spanier has been fired following child sex abuse allegations in …

Hydroshare Founder Marvin Barksdale Speaks On the Internet Piracy Paradox @ Urbanworld Film Festival

Marvin Barksdale, founder Of Hydroshare, Inc. parent company of Hydroshare.tv and iamnotpirate.com, was recently recruited to speak on the Digital Music Panel along side industry vets Aubrey …

100+ Prominent Law Professors Denounce the PROTECT IP Act

The Volokh Conspiracy announced that more than 90 “law professors who teach and write about intellectual property and Internet law” signed a letter opposing …

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