Tag Archives: RIAA

Boo-Freaking-Hoo

By C.G. | Published: January 13, 2012

Mike Masnick in response to the RIAA complaining the deck is stacked against them on CES discussion panels: …who the hell does the RIAA think it’s kidding? “The deck is stacked”? At a trade show? How about back in Washington DC where this bill was written? In that case, the MPAA/RIAA folks were very, very [...]

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Tomorrow is Internet Censorship Day!

By C.G. | Published: November 15, 2011

Tomorrow is Internet Censorship Day where people who believe in free speech online highlight the dangers the PROTECT IP Act and the Stop Online Piracy Act introduce to the Constitution and our free market – especially in entrepreneurial Silicon Valley. Brad Feld has a collection of links in his post where people can read up [...]

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How The PROTECT IP Act Breaks The Internet

By C.G. | Published: October 30, 2011

Nice 4 minute video on how the proposed PROTECT IP E-PARASITE bill threatens to break the internet and make Justin Bieber a felon. PROTECT IP Act Breaks The Internet – Vimeo via TechDirt

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The New Model Is Working

By C.G. | Published: May 19, 2011

Fred Wilson on speaking against the PROTECT IP (son of COCIA) law being proposed: Technology is a genie that cannot be put back into a bottle. We are better served imagining, inventing, and financing new models and new services that will allow creative activities to thrive in the digital world… There is a new model [...]

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Mandating Features

By C.G. | Published: August 16, 2010

Gary Shapiro from the Consumer Electronics Association on the RIAA and NAB’s wish that the Federal Government force Apple and other companies to include FM receivers in their products: Rather than adapt to the digital marketplace, NAB and RIAA act like buggy-whip industries that refuse to innovate and seek to impose penalties on those that [...]

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