Feds Shut FileSharing Site Megaupload Hactivists Attack MPAA And Universal Music Sites Following Indictments Andy Samberg Neil Gaiman Trent Reznor Aziz Ansari Adam Savage & More Tell Congress Don't Pass PIPA Or SOPA In Our Names Disney Refused Invitation From Senator Feinstein To Meet With Tech Companies Over PIPA/SOPA Translating Chris Dodd's Sanctimonious Bluster On Internet Protests Into English Wikipedia Blackout Protest Has Plenty Of Company Lamar Smith Brush Off As Just A Publicity Stunt The List Censoring Countries Thinks Provide Good Example For US Cato Institute Digs MPAA's Own Research Show That Wouldn't Save Single Net Job Insane Entitlement EMI Sues Irish Gov't Not Passing SOPALike Censorship Law Hollywood Star Ashton Kutcher Says 'SOPA Is Problem Solution' If SOPA's Main Target Pirate Bay It's Worth Pointing Out ThePirateBay.org Immune Denial Pretends No Big Have Joined SOPA/PIPA How Far We've Come; We Need Go Why Hollywood's Idea 'Innovation' MythBuster's PROTECT IP Could Destroy Know It Supporters Pretend White House Statement Means Can Rush Through BooFreakingHoo RIAA Complains 'The Deck Stacked' Against Them CES Panels Union Members Sign Petition Asking Unions Stop Supporting Will Dark Wednesday AntiPiracy Bills

Anonymous Retaliates Against MegaUpload Takedown, Knocks MPAA, RIAA Sites Offline Anonymous has allegedly taken down the Department of Justice website, the MPAA website, the RIAA website, and others. MPAA Fights Back Against Anonymous Attacks Eriq Gardner Hollywood trade group says it is working with the feds to identify the people responsible for the attack on its website. read more MPAA: SOPA, PIPA Blackouts Are 'Abuse of Power' The MPAA said today that the SOPA/PIPA blackouts are nothing but a publicity stunt and an abuse of power. Thirty Years Before SOPA, MPAA Feared the VCR In 1982, Jack Valenti warned that these little tapes would brutally murder his industry. (Image via Wikipedia) Thirty years before SOPA, the MPAA was in Washington, demanding legislative protection from a new and dangerous technology: the VCR. Here's then-MPAA head Jack Valenti, testifying before a House Judiciary Subcommittee in 1982: MPAA Attacks Ars Technica For 'Challenging Efforts to Curb Content Theft' The Motion Picture Association of America doesn't like us. According to the MPAA blog on Tuesday, "Arts Technica" is a "tech blog with a long history of challenging efforts to curb content theft." (If so, we're the only such tech blog that actually encouraged a now-current MPAA lawyer to do copyright coverage for our site and that [...] Hollywood Studios, MPAA to Attempt to Neutralize SOPA Protests With Ad Campaign [REPORT] The Motion Picture Association of America is looking to fight back against Wednesday's Internet protests over SOPA with an ad campaign aiming to address "misconceptions" about the bill, according to a report. MPAA Finds Internet Blackouts To Be "Irresponsible" Today is the day where many popular sites are blacking out in an effort to protest the anti-piracy bills that certain members of the government are so blindly trying to force down the public's throat. Granted, the uninformed public out … MPAA blasts 'dangerous' anti-SOPA blackouts as 'stunts' Chief Hollywood lobbyist Chris Dodd, a former U.S. Senator, railed against tomorrow's planned Web blackouts/copyright-law protests. MPAA attacks Ars for "challenging efforts to curb content theft" The Motion Picture Association of America doesn't like us. According to the MPAA blog on Tuesday, "Arts Technica" is a "tech blog with a long history of challenging efforts to curb content theft." (If so, we're the only such tech blog that actually encouraged a now-current MPAA lawyer to do copyright coverage for our site and that recommended the pro-rightsholder book Free Ride in this year's ... SOPA lives—and MPAA calls protests an "abuse of power" The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has looked at tomorrow's "Internet blackout" in opposition to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)—and it sees only a "gimmick," a "stunt," "hyperbole," "a dangerous and troubling development," an "irresponsible response," and an "abuse of power." Wikipedia, reddit, and others are going dark to protest the legislation, while sites like Scribd and ...
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