Tag: Stop Online Piracy Act
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Calling out RIAA and MPAA lies over SOPA & PIPA
Or to use their term ‘misinformation’. Really the RIAA and MPAA don’t seem to know when to lick their wounds and give it a rest, judging by their petty and frankly wrong response to the successful Internet Blackout and actions by Wikipedia and Google – so it’s nice to see Techdirt calling them out line…
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Star Wars Uncut: The Director’s Cut
Crowdsourcing at it’s best, it’s usually most successful when it’s something to do with sci-fi or Star Wars – in this case the latter, a project where people were asked to remake Star Wars in 15 second chunks, it’s brilliant, and now the Director’s Cut is online (wonder if key scenes and characters have been…
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First SOPA/PIPA – then ACTA. Round 2!
OK fresh from the wins of the Great Internet Blackout, it’s time to remember that ACTA, The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (remember that?) has NOT gone away, it’s coming up for the final vote in the European Union, despite major problems with the lack of transparency, a massive vote against it in 2010, private and public…