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CIPA is Another Privacy Fight Brewing on The Internet – Tech Thursday

Big Rich — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:30:19 +0000

It hasn't been long since Hollywood took a backhanded bitch slap with the SPOA and PIPA legislation defeat thanks to the Internet at large . Now there's new legislation making its way through Congress called CSIPA aims to give the government and let Internet companies share more of your information about cyber security threats and could endanger privacy. Hollywood is happy it's not them in the cross hairs again.

Is RapidShare Next on The Piracy Chopping Block? – Tech Thursday

Big Rich — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:30:36 +0000

Just a little more than 24 hours after the sound thumping that the SOPA and PIPA bills got online and the subsequent tabling of them in Congress, file locker website MegaUpload was shutdown by the U.S. Department of Justice for alleged piracy of movies and music. The accusers, the same people that helped Congress write the SOPA and PIPA bills, the RIAA and the MPAA. Now RapidShare is thought to be the next take down.

Bill Mahar Gets Owned By His Guests For Supporting SOPA [VIDEO]

BJ Ragone — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 14:36:26 +0000

Bill Mahar is outspoken against pretty much everything, but because a few people pirated his stupid movie Religulous years ago he is all for putting a ban on our freedom. Another big mouth Hollywood hippie proves that he is also just a greedy jerk. He doesn't quite understand SOPA or how it works so his guests give him a crash course and make him look like an idiot.

Piracy Bills Didn't Know What Hit Them – Tech Thursday

Big Rich — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:30:32 +0000

Yesterday was the planned "Blackout" of websites all over the internet to protest and make people aware of the two bills working their way through Congress that they say would help protect American Intellectual Property that is being pirated over seas. Those bills are called The Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA and the Protect Intelectual Property Act, also known as PIPA. It was, by all measures, a success.

Wikipedia, Reddit, Cheezburger Network and More Sites to Go Dark in Protest of SOPA

Shauna Wright — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:30:41 +0000

Homework will be harder to do and bar bets tougher to win starting at midnight ET on Tuesday, when Wikipedia will go dark for 24 hours in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and PROTECT IP Act (PIPA), anti-piracy legislation under consideration by the US Congress.