Entrepreneur and angel investor Alexis Ohanian, probably best known as one of the co-founders of reddit and evangelist of HipMunk, took the stage at The Next Web Conference this morning…
While the US government getting involved in Internet affairs is nothing new, it has only been three months since SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) kicked up dust and called attention…
Earlier today, we told you about something called FLIXPAC, a new political action committee formed by Netflix to lobby government officials in Washington, D.C. Coverage of the PAC sparked immediate…
Since the knockdown of the proposed SOPA and PIPA acts to combat online piracy, music industry execs are mulling other ways to stop people from pirating music from their artists….
At an emergency New York Tech Meetup held outside the offices of Senator Schumer & Senator Gillibrand, hundreds of geeks, founders, designers, programmers and other rational people gathered in protest…
Today we’ve seen quite a few companies taking a unique approach to protesting the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA). For example, Tunrtable.fm is displaying…
In what has become a day of massive Internet activism against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA), the biggest names on the web are…
With many huge sites shutting down today in opposition of SOPA and PIPA, other sites are taking a less dramatic route, leaving an equally huge impression. Turntable.fm, the popular social…
Tomorrow is nuclear day for sites like Reddit and Wikipedia. Both sites will be “blacking out“, which basically means they’ll be shutting down in protest of the Stop Online Piracy…
With news about the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) hitting mainstream publications and broadcasts, more Americans are becoming interested in what it’s all about. Reading proposed bills isn’t the easiest…
Today, founder of the non-profit behind information archive Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, announced that the site will go dark for 24 hours on Wednesday in protest of the Stop Online Piracy…
Today, we wrote about a phone call made by New York entrepeneur Amanda Peyton due to her concerns about the proposed PROTECT IP Act (PIPA). She called the office of…
The SOPA and PIPA uproar continues on the Internet and users are urging the Web’s biggest names to protest the proposed acts by “going black”. By going black, or basically…
It doesn’t get more global than WordPress. Over 60 million people use some form of the popular blogging service, either hosted on WordPress.com or professionally hosted elsewhere. That fact alone…
During a speech last night, former U.S. Vice President Al Gore made his feelings known about the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). During a question and answer session with the…
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