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Reddit founder Alexis Ohanion has been one of the most prominent opponents of the PIPA and SOPA bills. Just yesterday he debated the issues on MSNBC and later this week Reddit itself will join the PIPA blackout, taking the site offline for 12 hours. And there’s more. In a video just released Ohanion calls out [...]

Early December we broke the news that Wikipedia was considering to blackout its site to oppose the pending PIPA/SOPA bills, and today founder Jimmy Wales just confirmed that it’s on. Coming Wednesday the English Wikipedia will go dark. With this unprecedented move Wikipedia joins the ranks of Reddit, Mozilla, Boing Boing and many others. The [...]

The White House just released a statement commenting on the pending SOPA and PIPA anti-piracy bills in congress. While the Obama Administration sides with the opposition by saying that free-speech should be protected, censorship is evil, and that DNS-blocking is a no go, the statement doesn’t mean that the bills are off the table.

While the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) continues to dominate the news, the people responsible for the bill continue to break their own rules. A few weeks ago several SOPA sponsors were caught posting copyrighted videos on their personal websites. Under SOPA this is considered to be a felony, punishable by 5 years in prison. [...]

It’s no secret that congressman Jared Polis is not a fan of SOPA. He is among the representatives who support the SOPA alternative #OPEN. But, little known is the fact that one of the reasons for Rep. Polis to oppose SOPA is the threat it poses to the gaming community. Rep. Polis is a “League [...]

Last weekend Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff wrote a column in the Salt Lake City Tribune supporting the pending SOPA and PIPA anti-piracy bills. In his article Shurtleff argues that the bills are a necessity if the US is to “stop Internet thieves and profiteers.” An interesting take, but not very credible, as the Attorney Generally who may soon have the power to seize domains, simply passed off MPAA-penned propaganda as his own words.

Oh the irony… Last week the anti-PIPA group Public Knowledge sent out an email asking people to attend town hall meetings to oppose the Protect Intellectual Property Act. Today the pro-PIPA group Creative America did the same, but unlike their name suggests their email isn’t very creative. In fact, some parts appear to be directly [...]