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    The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) was a proposed United States congressional bill to expand the ability of U.S. law enforcement to combat online copyright...
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    The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) found broad support from organizations that rely on copyright, including the Motion Picture...
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  • on this second list would be immune from prosecution. The 2011 Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) would have allowed the US Department of Justice, as well...
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    Lawrence Lessig. He founded the online group Demand Progress, known for its campaign against the Stop Online Piracy Act. On January 6, 2011, Swartz was...
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    Republican Party. He sponsored the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act (PCIP). He also co-sponsored the...
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    University School of Law. Kern has been involved in online activism against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and in support of Gamergate. Mark Kern was...
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    House version of the bill, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), was introduced on October 26, 2011. In the wake of online protests held on January 18, 2012...
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  • counterfeit goods. In October 2011, a bill was introduced entitled Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). If the bill had been passed, it would have expanded the...
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    Online piracy or software piracy is the practice of downloading and distributing copyrighted works digitally without permission, such as music or software...
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  • debate of piracy has been a constant topic for a long time; but this time, the "battlefield" shifts to the internet. The Stop Online Piracy Act bill was...
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  • furnishing classified information to WikiLeaks. On October 26, 2011, the Stop Online Piracy Act, which opponents said would threaten free speech and censor the...
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  • The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) are two proposed draft laws that were being considered by the United States Congress. Their...
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    E-democracy (redirect from Online democracy)
    to better discern the truth. The introduction of H.R. 3261, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), in the United States House of Representatives, was perceived...
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    targeting the elimination of piracy were made when the highly anticipated yet often debated bill known as the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) was proposed in...
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    of America introduced the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in 2011 which would have made it a criminal act to stream and share copyrighted material...
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    United States Congress proposed as an alternative to the Stop Online Piracy Act and PROTECT IP Act, by Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon, a Democrat, and Representative...
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  • Trump. PROTECT IP Act Stop Online Piracy Act Protecting Children from Internet Pornographers Act of 2011 Protecting Lawful Streaming Act Engleman, Eric (June...
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    the world" and student groups compared it to the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act that was proposed in the United States. Ottawa lawyer Kathleen Simmons...
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  • Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act, sparking the movement that eventually defeated COICA's successor bills, the Stop Online Piracy Act and the...
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    by the Congress of the United States: the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect Intellectual Property Act. On that day, the Italian Wikipedia redirected...
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  • Navy Socialist Party of Azania, a political party in South Africa Stop Online Piracy Act, a controversial proposed legislation introduced in the U.S. Senate...
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    Protests against SOPA and PIPA (category Internet-based and online protests)
    proposed laws in the United States Congress—the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA). These followed smaller protests in late 2011...
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    being immune to prosecution under the Copyright Act. Proposed laws such as the Stop Online Piracy Act broaden the definition of "willful infringement"...
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  • 12-hour sitewide blackout on January 18, 2012, in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act. In May 2012, Reddit joined the Internet Defense League, a group...
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  • their domain registration away from registrars that supported the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), as part of the protests against SOPA. It was first held...
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    Most Influential People on the Web. In response to the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), Graham announced in late 2011 that no representatives of...
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    the Better Business Bureau in protest of their support for the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). In February 2013, Delphi Forums celebrated its 30th anniversary...
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    early 2011, Ohanian spoke out against Congress's Stop Online Piracy Act and the Senate's PROTECT IP Act. He helped lead the Internet-enabled campaign that...
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    to implement similar site blocking legislation against copyright-related piracy. Examples include: File sharing and peer-to-peer (P2P) related websites...
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    com. Retrieved 2015-07-17. "List of Supporters: H.R. 3261, the Stop Online Piracy Act" (PDF). Judiciary.house.gov. Archived from the original (PDF) on...
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