Does Daily Variety Validate SOPA Fears?
I’m for SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act, or the Senate’s PIPA). But at first, I admit, I thought it was the right thing to do. I own a small catalog of music releases, films, and some publishing interests. I would see a spike in sales if SOPA passed.
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The Vandals’ Joe Escalante on SOPA: How the Daily Variety Lawsuit Proves it …
24 2012 at 12:20 PM We all know about the Daily Variety suit that plagues the Vandals, but yesteday bassist Joe Escalante published a column over at Huffington Post that talks about SOPA and how it bodes ill for the Internet…using their case as an …
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The House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on their version of the bill known as SOPA or the Stop Online Piracy Act. The Protect IP Act would allow the attorney general to create a blacklist of sites they see as engaging in infringing activities, to be blocked by ISP providers, search engines, payment providers and advertising networks all without a court hearing or trial. Numerous groups have come out against it but will Congress listen. O’Reilly Media’s Alexander Howard discusses.
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