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) …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Govt agency to promote legal file sharing?
Should there be a government agency to promote affordable and legal file sharing? Such a concept came up last week when the New Zealand …
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A Brief History of Litigious Music Industry Idiocy by Flavorpill
You might have seen the picture (above) doing the rounds on the web over the last couple of days – a screenshot of a …
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Filesharing Cyberlocker Hotfile to Countersue Warner Bros.
The once-popular cyberlocker Hotfile is preparing to countersue Warner Bros., whilst currently in the middle of a lawsuit brought against it by the MPAA …
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CNET Proposes 5 Essential Changes for the Protect IP Act
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 …
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