Following its ability to build up enough grassroots support to get GoDaddy to change its position (if not its mind) on SOPA & PIPA, it appears the Reddit community wants to see if it can do the same thing with some politicians. Earlier this week,… Continue reading →

Well, well. Via Julian Sanchez, we learn that SOPA’s official “sponsor” and chief supporter, Lamar Smith, spoke out in 2006 about how Congress shouldn’t regulate the internet:

“I want a vibrant Internet just like they do,” said Rep. Lamar Smith, a Te… Continue reading →

Remember Paul Christoforo? The “marketing rep” for the Avenger gaming controllers who caused quite a stir this week by doing just about everything wrong in responding to a customer service request, and then missing no opportunity to make the situation… Continue reading →

We’ve always been a bit baffled by GoDaddy’s original support of COICA/PIPA/SOPA. As we noted in the fall, under the original definitions in SOPA, GoDaddy itself was almost certainly a rogue site. If you do searches on various trademarks, its recomme… Continue reading →

A few months ago, we wrote about how a TSA agent who was involved in an intrusive “pat down” of Amy Alkon threatened her with a defamation claim for daring to say and write that she felt she was raped by the TSA agent. Recently Alkon sought to publish… Continue reading →

Well, today was the day originally scheduled as the GoDaddy boycott day, in which people who had registered domains with GoDaddy were going to transfer them out. With GoDaddy officially dropping support for SOPA, there have been some questions about w… Continue reading →

I’m almost always impressed and intrigued by articles from Rick Falkvinge, who I think does an amazing job distilling some complicated issues around the intersection of the internet, the law and civil liberties into a format that’s easy to understand. … Continue reading →

We received an interesting email recently from Bilal in Dubai, explaining just how difficult it is to purchase legal music online from the Middle East, and wondering why it is that the recording industry keeps complaining that not enough people are buy… Continue reading →

We recently wrote about the somewhat surprising move that The Heritage Foundation had come out against SOPA. This was surprising mainly because the think tank was famous for being very closely aligned with the MPAA on copyright issues in the past — e… Continue reading →