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Group Representing Major Movie and TV Studios Advocates for Site-blocking Law to Curb Online Piracy in the US
11 Apr 2024 11:45 GMT
… websites dedicated to sharing pirated content.
One of his … for laws like the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP … websites accused of hosting pirated content. The major argument … overbroad legislation could lead to censorship. For example, the …
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Studios Are Going After Piracy Again, Potentially Reigniting Fight Over Free Speech
10 Apr 2024 20:54 GMT
… to sites that host pirated content. The legislation … would’ve effectively promoted censorship, leading to a series … legislation called the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect Intellectual Property Act. … legislation.”
In 2012, SOPA was criticized for forcing …
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York University accused of censoring student's Hong Kong protest
30 Mar 2024 18:45 GMT
… York has been accused of censoring a Chinese student after it … 2020 (Photo: Belinda Jiao/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty … education sector, helping to safeguard intellectual property and sensitive research.”
The …
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Movie Industry To Renew Push For Bill Targeting Piracy Sites
11 Apr 2024 12:34 GMT
… an
attempt to enact the Stop Online Piracy Act -- an entertainment-industry … Knowledge, which previously fought the Stop Online Piracy Act, on Wednesday reiterated its objections … any attempt to ram through censorious legislation
developed entirely in secret …
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Voltage Pictures, Copyright Owners Sue Comcast For Allowing Users To Pirate Films
16 Sep 2022 04:53 GMT
… subscribers that repeatedly watch pirated films on illegal … the BitTorrent protocol and pirate copies of films. … Obama-era legislation called SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) failed badly and no … hate speech, misinformation and censorship, and dead-end …
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SOPA To The Future: Reclaiming Collective Internet Power
24 Jan 2022 18:17 GMT
… Lofgren »
Amid fears that the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) could be the first nail … trade secrets, performative legislation, censorship, and conspiracy theories we live … by promoting harm, by expanding censorship, by profiting from mass surveillance …
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The SOPA Fight Reminds Us Of The Internet's Power And Usefulness
21 Jan 2022 22:19 GMT
… House bill called the “Stop Online Piracy Act” (SOPA) and its Senate counterpart … competitors and censor opposing viewpoints.
Opposition to SOPA-PIPA … importantly, the post-SOPA-PIPA Internet has proven … legacy industries that engineered SOPA-PIPA. In fact, …
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The Fight For Anti-Censorship Tools Continues
20 Jan 2022 20:35 GMT
… successful campaign against the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the United States. This … the world envisaged by the SOPA, anti-censorship tools like Virtual Private … case which demonstrates that anti-censorship tools are vulnerable targets for …
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How The SOPA Blackout Happened
18 Jan 2022 21:06 GMT
… protest in history against the Stop Online Piracy Act, and the millions more … seemed guaranteed. Instead, the SOPA Blackout was the first … suddenly fall apart?
Yes, SOPA overreached against the will of … unjust bill that would censor the Internet, and provide …
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While Everyone's Busy, Hollywood & Record Labels Suggest Congress Bring Back SOPA
12 Dec 2018 13:51 GMT
… quot;Joint Strategic Plan for Intellectual Property," which is … Well, how about widespread censorship in the form of … scale piracy sites (not sites that accidentally host pirated material) … inroads towards bringing back SOPA, despite the total clusterfuck …