SOPA "explained" by The Guardian

SOPA "explained" by The Guardian

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Will 2012 see the end of the internet as we know it? The House Judiciary committee tried to finalize the Stop Online Piracy Act (Sopa) before Christmas for a vote early next year. But fierce opposition -- much of it online -- seems to have given pause to the bill's main author, Lamar Smith. He is now expected to hear from expert witnesses early next year before the bill goes to Congress. Watch this video for a guide to the fight that will likely become one of the big stories of the coming year

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A World Without Wikipedia: For SOPA, Websites Threaten a Midnight Blackout

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Read more: http://to.pbs.org/wFyoWi Beginning midnight Wednesday, some major Internet companies could go dark for 24 hours as part of an online protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA. Ray Suarez discusses the planned blackout with Ben Huh, the CEO of a participating company, and NBC...

Could Facebook Shut Down? Understanding SOPA and PIPA

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Understanding SOPA/PIPA & Why You Should Be Concerned

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Most everyone has noticed the swath of websites that were blacked out in protest of the pending PIPA / SOPA legislation in congress, but not as many people understand exactly why those bills are such a problem. This short documentary explores PIPA and SOPA, how the bills work, who's behind them,...

SOPA - Das Internet wird abgeschaltet

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In diesem VideoTutorial ein Ausblick, auf die Auswirkungen des sog. SOPA Gesetzes aus den USA auf das Internet.

ACTA explained - Animation.flv

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ACTA is one more offensive against the sharing of culture on the Internet. ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) is an agreement secretly negotiated by a small "club" of like-minded countries (39 countries, including the 27 of the European Union, the United States, Japan, etc). Negotiated...

The Fight Against the SOPA Bill

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Congress is about to vote on the Stop Online Piracy Act, which could give the government power to shut down any website with copyrighted content. Kevin Pereira talks to CNET's Declan McCullagh about how this bill impacts you. For more from The Loop, go here:...

Brad Burnham: The Right to Piracy: The Conflict Behind SOPA

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http://bigthink.com The Right to Piracy: The Conflict Behind SOPA

SOPA & PIPA Explained

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An excellent explanation of how SOPA and PIPA work, and why they are bad bills. Credits to Khan Academy More about SOPA & PIPA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PROTECT_IP_Ac https://www.eff.org/...

Here is why, CISPA More Dangerous than SOPA !

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What is Protect IP and SOPA?

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Please share this video with EVERYBODY! http://freedomforip.org/ Recently, we sat down with Brian Rowe and Marcus Barnes-Cannon to discuss Protect IP and what it actually means to not only our community, but anyone that uses the Internet. Brian Rowe (http://twitter.com/#!/sarterus) is a...

Anonymous - Message to the American People

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Dear brothers and sisters. Now is the time to open your eyes! In a stunning move that has civil libertarians stuttering with disbelief, the U.S. Senate has just passed a bill that effectively ends the Bill of Rights in America. The National Defense Authorization Act is being called the most...

SOPA Delayed - The PIPA Bill Is Next

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That's right, they delayed it....knwoing full well they couldn't win this, they're now scrambling to try to find another means of delaying the inevitible. Here's links to everything that outta help you guys and gals out. SOPA Delay news -...

Anonymous - A Message to Congress on SOPA

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We will not stand and watch as you slowly take away our rights to free speech. We WILL FIGHT YOU tooth and nail and we will show no mercy. If you pass this bill, you will pay for it! Expect us. TRANSCRIPT _________________ Hello American Congress. We are Anonymous. Your proposal of the...

sopa ماهو

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Explainer: understanding Sopa & PIPA. What are they? Google, Youtube, Facebook, Wiki are dead.

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Try Free Website Monitoring Services, Receive SMS / Email when your website goes down. http://www.dns4www.net VIDEO & SCRIPT By: http://www.guardian.co.uk ------------------------------- Will 2012 see the end of the internet as we know it? The House Judiciary committee tried to finalize the Stop...

SOPA explained in one minute - SOPA Ireland

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Featuring interview with: Aidan Killian #SOPAIreland Visit http://stopsopaireland.com/ and sign the petition. Join: https://www.facebook.com/StopSOPAIreland More about Aidan Killian: http://www.AidanKillian.com/ http://www.ComedyCrashCourse.com/

Wikipedia To Protest SOPA With Site Shutdown

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A warning to high-school students and undergrads: You may want to dust off your library cards. Wikipedia has announced it will join the sites Reddit and Boing Boing and go offline Jan. 18 to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect Intellectual Property Act being debated by Congress....

Say NO to ACTA

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Learn more and take action about ACTA at http://lqdn.fr/ACTA (subtitles included : fr, en, es, de, it, nl, se, pt, ro, ca, hu, gr, ...) Here are few ways to act against ACTA, right now: http://www.laquadrature.net/wiki/How_to_act_against_ACTA Ongoing translation and subtitling efforts:...

Stop SOPA: The Documentary

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A short informative piece on the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA, and what YOU can do to shut it down. To make a difference, please visit: http://www.americancensorship.org/ If you enjoyed the video, please share it. Follow me on Twitter: @benbaranovsky Follow me on Goole+:...

Defend our freedom to share (or why SOPA is a bad idea)

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http://www.ted.com What does a bill like PIPA/SOPA mean to our shareable world? At the TED offices, Clay Shirky delivers a proper manifesto -- a call to defend our freedom to create, discuss, link and share, rather than passively consume. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and...

President Obama on SOPA + Answering Mike Mozart's (JeepersMedia) Richard O'Dwyer Question 2012

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Obama answers questions about SOPA and UK citizen Richard O'Dwyer

An opinion on how the SOPA argument should and should not be presented

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Merely an opinion piece from me related to a recent video that's been making the rounds. Feel free to watch the video and make up your own mind - http://youtu.be/WJIuYgIvKsc Ashton Kutcher's blog on SOPA - http://t.co/BrdkfzmZ

Viacom's New SOPA/PIPA Internet Censorship Pitch - Truth Annotated Edition!

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This is a truth annotated version of Viacom's new pitch for gobal Internet Censorship (SOPA - Stop Online Piracy Act and PIPA - Protect IP Act). For more information on this topic, please see Lauren Weinstein's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com

Explanation of the law SOPA

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A full blackout is a reasonable response, because, in the language that is so popular with politicians, SOPA is going to result in excessive regulation that will cost jobs and likely cause significant increases in the cost of services, perhaps to the point where those services will no longer be...

Internet Censorship Is the Wrong Answer to Online Piracy

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Internet censorship is not the answer to problems of piracy online. Cato Institute research fellow Julian Sanchez explains that internet censorship won't effectively address the problem of piracy and will threaten innovation and the liberties of Americans by engaging in unconstitutional prior...