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• Portuguese rights society presents lists of supporters for a digital media tax; composer says he never gave consent to be included on the list

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 837
  Carlos sez, "A Portuguese Authors Association was caught faking authors names in support of an abusive proposed law to add a copyright tax to every gigabyte of digital storage." António Pinho Vargas (one of my most appreciated Portuguese music composers, you should check his Tom Waits if you dont know him) has came ...
  4 days ago

• Polish MPs wear Guy Fawkes masks to protest ACTA

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 837
  The streets of Poland have erupted in protest on the eve of the countrys signing onto ACTA, the secretive copyright treaty that is being rammed through many European Parliaments this year. Members of Parliament showed up for work wearing Anon-style Guy Fawkes masks to show their disapproval. After the signing, ...
  5 days ago

• Chief ACTA Eurocrat quits in disgust at lack of democratic fundamentals in global copyright treaty

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 837
  Kader Arif, the EU "rapporteur" for ACTA (a copyright treaty negotiated in secret, which contains all the worst elements of SOPA, and which is coming to a vote in the EU) has turned in his report and resigned from his job, delivering a scathing rebuke to the EU negotiators and parliamentarians, and the global ...
  5 days ago

• Stop ACTA: secretive treaty will bring in the worst of SOPA through trade obligations

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 837
  ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, is the notorious, unprecedented secret copyright treaty that was negotiated by industry representatives and government trade reps, without any access by elected representatives, independent business, the press, public interest groups, legal scholars, independent ...
  6 days ago

• MegaUpload raided, founder arrested; Anonymous launches mass DDoS against entertainment companies and US law enforcement

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 837
  New Zealand police, responding from a request from the US government, raided MegaUpload today, arresting founder and CEO Kim ”Dotcom” Schmitz and three "associates." The service, which allowed users to upload files that were too big to email, claimed 150 million users. The entertainment industry alleged that the ...
  1 week ago

• SOPA isnt dead, its back on

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 837
  House Judiciary Committee Chair Lamar Smith (R-TX) has vowed to resume his markup hearings in February . ( Thanks, Adam! )
  1 week ago

• Congressmen and Senators withdraw support for SOPA/PIPA

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 837
  Yesterday, literally millions of Americans contacted their senators and congressional reps to ask them to withdraw their support for SOPA and PIPA. The result? A massive withdrawal of support from elected lawmakers for the bills. Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL), Roy Blunt (R-MO), Mark Kirk (R-IL), Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and ...
  1 week ago

• A Few Final SOPA/PIPA Links for Consideration

  
  The Command Line — Authority: 112
  As you may well imagine, the sites from which I usual cull my blog fodder have either been out of action or focusing exclusively on the pleas against SOPA and PIPA during this day of protest (as have I.) In lieu of my usual curation of stories, even a minimal link dump, here are a few more posts worth reading about ...
  1 week ago

• Human Readable Explanation of the Problems with SOPA/PIPA

  
  The Command Line — Authority: 112
  Mitchell Baker, head lizard wrangler for Mozilla, has a very clear post for those still struggling to understand the problems with the proposed SOPA and PIPA legislation. As maker of the Firefox browser and a very active organization in shaping many new developments on the web, Mozilla has a huge stake in the outcome. ...
  1 week ago

• Artists opposing the PROTECT-IP / SOPA Act

  
  NEWSgrist - where spin is art — Authority: 103
  Artists opposing the PROTECT-IP / SOPA Act [petition link at bottom] Congress needs to hear from Artists! The PROTECT-IP act would censor the net, in the name of protecting "creativity" (read: copyright). The law would let the government or corporations censor entire sites-- they just have to convince a ...
  1 week ago

• Why Were Blacking Out Sites: PIPA and SOPA

  
  Beneblog: Technology Meets Society — Authority: 92
  In November, I wrote a blog post entitled: Why I’m Scared of the SOPA bill . Part of my objective was to show the unintended consequences of Internet censorship bills like SOPA and PIPA (SOPAs Senate buddy bill), responding to alerts from organizations I trust like the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The ...
  1 week ago

• Big Content Won’t Scare Me off the Net

  
  The Command Line — Authority: 112
  Or why this site is not blacked out. ( Updated to add links for further reading at the end of the post. I realize as my thoughts are shared beyond my usual readership that this entry doesn’t adequately explain the issues and what is at risk, relying very heavily on my writing and podcasts to make clear what is at ...
  1 week ago

• Stop SOPA and PROTECT-IP

  
  Digital Sextant — Authority: 110
  I’ve written about this before , and if I had  more time (beginning of the semester morass), I’d do the whole blackout thing .  Instead, you’ll have to settle for this. Please, please contact your Congress-person to protest the awful SOPA and PROTECT-IP laws .
  1 week ago

• SOPA Blackout

  
  goNZo Freakpower Brains Trust — Authority: 403
  This site would be blacked out in support of the anti-SOPA/PIPA, but the HTML hurts my head. So instead, Im raping The Oatmeals Intellectual Property below: Please dont shut my blog (or Blogger) down because of my harmless IP cloning. Stop SOPA/PIPA. While youre at it, can you kill the IP trolls in the TPP ...
  2 weeks ago

• MPAA issues statement slamming SOPA/PIPA "blackout" protests as "dangerous gimmick"

  
  bigBrains.com — Authority: 147
  Former Senator Chris Dodd, Chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. (MPAA), pooh-poohs the January 18 internet blackout protests over SOPA and PIPA: It is an irresponsible response and a disservice to people who rely on them for information and use their services. It is also an abuse of ...
  2 weeks ago

• 2600 to go PIPA-dark, too

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 837
  Emmanuel Goldstein sez, "The websites for 2600 will go dark on Wednesday, joining many others around the world in protest against the potentially devastating effects of bills like SOPA and PIPA."
  2 weeks ago

• Free PDF of the first Diesel Sweeties comic collection

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 837
  The delightful R. Stevens is distributing the first Diesel Sweeties webcomic collection as a DRM-free, free PDF, in celebration of his birthday. "Pocket Sweeties, Volume 1," is a sterling example of the demented, bitter humor that Rich pulls off so well, and were a lucky Internet for getting this great gimmee from ...
  2 weeks ago

• MPAA issues statement slamming SOPA/PIPA "blackout" protests as "dangerous gimmick"

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 837
  Former Senator Chris Dodd, Chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. (MPAA), pooh-poohs the January 18 internet blackout protests over SOPA and PIPA : It is an irresponsible response and a disservice to people who rely on them for information and use their services. It is also an ...
  2 weeks ago

• Makerbot playsets: free, downloadable 3D files for dollhouses, dolls and accessories

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 837
  MakerBot has announced "MakerBot Playsets," a series of freely downloadable dollhouses, furnishings and dolls for your 3D printer. Whip up as pieces as needed, on demand, and amaze the wee ones (and compulsive hoarders) in your life. MakerBot’s own design superstar Michael “Skimbal” Curry, creator of such ...
  2 weeks ago

• Google will go semithermonuclear tomorrow

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 837
  Big news: although Google wont be blacking out tomorrow in protest of SOPA and PIPA, they will have a homepage graphic and link protesting the laws : "Like many businesses, entrepreneurs and web users, we oppose these bills because there are smart, targeted ways to shut down foreign rogue websites without asking ...
  2 weeks ago

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