Please call, email, snail mail and fax your US Representative and your two US Senators…Tell them: As your constituent, please oppose SOPA and PIPA. It will kill the Internet! Why? SOPA and PIPA would put the burden on website owners to police user-contributed material and call for the unnecessary blocking of entire sites. Small sites…

Posted on December 13, 2011 at 4:00pm by  Liz Klimas The House set to vote on the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) this Thursday, a bill that depending on who you are is seen as either protecting intellectual property or censoring the Internet. The bill seeks to remove “rouge” websites hosting unauthorized copyrighted material, but in the process,…

Overkill on Internet piracy ………………………………………………………………………… By Jennifer Rubin – Washington Post ……………………………………………………………………………………     Over the weekend, First Amendment impresario Floyd Abrams addressed two controversial Internet piracy bills, the Senate’s Protect IP Act (PIPA) and the House version, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). He argued that the bill, designed to stop Internet theft of intellectual property, has been…

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