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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Ohanian emerged as a vocal opponent of the Stop Online Piracy Act.
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.
Ryan said he would vote down the Stop Online Piracy Act, a bill that would have restricted free music trading, to avoid additional regulation.
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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Hot news from the Internet activist community: Good guy hackers plan to launch satellites to fight the Stop Online Piracy Act and create a censorship-free Internet.
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.
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.
The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and its Senate companion, Protect IP Act (PIPA), were ostensibly designed to deal with a very real problem: rampant piracy of copyrighted material by foreign websites, particularly those in China.
Even as they were drafting the language for the Stop Online Piracy Act, it appears that the United States Congresspeople were engaging in a liberal amount of online piracy, according to a report from Torrent Freak.
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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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Demand Progress was instrumental in fighting the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act, two bills that would have expanded government oversight in fighting Internet piracy and copyright violations at the possible expense of the free flow of information.
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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From these platforms, and with his remarkable skills as a writer, he was able to play a crucial role in alerting the Net to the dangers of the Stop Online Piracy Act that would have given the government more power to shut down sites at the blink of the content industry's stink eye.
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.
The sudden Congressional decisions to ditch the very bad intellectual property bills, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) have raised all sorts of new questions about how discussion around the bills should proceed and, as importantly, how was it the opposition managed to have such a devastating impact on such a powerful lobby as the movie studios and their friends.
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.
He cited the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act (Sopa) in the United States as an example of the kind of threat facing online freedom.
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.
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.
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.
It's turned out to be a big weekend for those concerned about the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act.
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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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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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