Some people have asked how Epic feels about the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).
The Stop Online Piracy Act (or SOPA) in the House is the more famous of the two.
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Pro gamers have joined in on the anti-SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) cause.
Ohanian emerged as a vocal opponent of the Stop Online Piracy Act.
It's turned out to be a big weekend for those concerned about the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act.
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Please, call or write your Members of Congress and tell them to oppose the Stop Online Piracy Act.
But all that global knowledge sharing could come to a grinding halt if the Stop Online Piracy Act goes forward.
The growing anti-SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) support that has swept through the gaming and Internet community found a very big ally today.
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Ryan said he would vote down the Stop Online Piracy Act, a bill that would have restricted free music trading, to avoid additional regulation.
He cited the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act (Sopa) in the United States as an example of the kind of threat facing online freedom.
Warner Brothers is a staunch supporter of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), and keeps a keen eye out for infringement of its own copyright and trademarks.
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Wikipedia, which attracts millions of hits every day, is opposed to the US Stop Online Piracy Act (Sopa) and Protect Intellectual Property Act (Pipa) being debated by Congress.
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Darrell Issa, a US congressman and vocal critic of the stalled Stop Online Piracy Act (Sopa), voiced his concerns about Acta at the World Economics Forum in Davos.
Opponents of the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act have been busy building tools to identify which corporations have lobbied for the bill to better boycott their products.
Game developers large and small have already come out against the Stop Online Piracy Act, but their protest means little as the biggest players in the industry stand behind it.
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There has been lots of great analysis of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the potential side effects its enactment would have for Internet providers and content distributors.
Acta shares similarities with America's Stop Online Piracy Act, which US lawmakers set aside last week after Wikipedia and Google blacked out or partially obscured their websites for a day in protest.
With President Barack Obama speaking out against the Stop Online Piracy Act and a looming Internet blackout to protest the act, it looks like SOPA is as good as dead.
As a journalist who has watched circulation of newspapers collapse over the last 10 years, I initially thought that the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) might be a wonderful thing for print media companies.
But during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on one of the proposals (the so-called Stop Online Piracy Act), proponents of the measure disregarded all facts showing why their solution is worse than the problem.
Analysts say that there is a risk that the Anonymous campaign could become confused with the broader campaign against the House of Representatives' Stop Online Piracy Act (Sopa) and the Senate's Protect Intellectual Property Act (Pipa).
White's personal information, including his Social Security number, cellphone number and address, was published online just moments after the exchange, in which he defended his company's support of the controversial -- and now-shelved -- Stop Online Piracy Act.
GoDaddy has found itself siding with law enforcement before, both in its controversial support of the Stop Online Piracy Act and this Congressional testimony affirming their willingness to take websites down even without an order from a judge.
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Our movement involved a new coalition of actors, many of whom were part of the vocal opposition to the doomed Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA, but also involved groups such as the Tea Party Nation and the National College Republicans.
You may have heard that Congress is currently considering a bill called the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA. While SOPA has a ton of problems, there are some significant issues that I thought fellow gamers might want to know about.
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These groups and others, like the National Music Publishers Association (NMPA), convinced Congress that copyright interests trumped innovation on the Internet, leading to the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House and Protect IP Act (PIPA) in the Senate.
The former cattle rancher, Grateful Dead lyricist and founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation has been engaged in that battle for 25 years, longer than many of the young Internet users opposing the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) have been old enough to sit at a keyboard.
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Whether it's illegal downloads (the target of the failed Stop Online Piracy Act in Congress) or DVR systems that let users quickly and easily zoom past advertising, the new-media landscape offers a host of hurdles that have left some entertainers and, by extension, entertainment companies, struggling to adapt.
Ohanian, who is on the steering committee for the Internet Defense League and is very active in the fight to preserve internet freedom, also called on the public to sign a petition to defeat CISPA in the way users helped defeat the Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect Intellectual Propert Act in 2011.
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