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<title>MPAA chief Chris Dodd: SOPA, PIPA gone, not coming back</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/10/03/comments.also.made.about.google.search.four.strikes.rules/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1349312713_chrisdodd-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Chairman of the Motion Picture Association of America and former Senator Christopher Dodd told Wired in an interview that the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA) are not going to return to to the congressional floor. Dodd claimed that "that legislation is gone. Itís over. Itís not coming back" after an appearance at the San Francisco-based Commonwealth Club on Tuesday night....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2012 01:20:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Groups ask Congress to "step back" from IP law proceedings</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/02/06/lawmakers.asked.to.take.fresh.perspective/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://cdn3.macnn.com/news/1201/congress-3.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[A long list of companies and organizations, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Open Congress, have sent an open letter urging congressional lawmakers to take an entirely new approach to intellectual property law. The authors suggest concerns raised over SOPA and PIPA legislation are "too fundamental and too numerous" to be resolved through "hasty revisions" to the existing bills....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 02:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>RIAA opposes anti-piracy OPEN Act</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/02/01/trade.group.claims.legislation.will.worsen.problem/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://cdn2.macnn.com/news/1107/riaain.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[The Recording Industry Association of America has come out swinging in opposition to an anti-piracy bill that has been proposed in the wake of the much-derided Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect IP Act. The new proposal, referred to as the Open Act (PDF), relies on the International Trade Commission to investigate copyright infringement claims....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:55:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>SOPA backers caught off-guard, make 'incremental' compromise</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/01/25/mpaa.only.now.edging.towards.balance/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1201/mpaa-chrisdodd.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[A new exposé of some of the actions behind the scenes of SOPA's rejection has shown the fundamental disconnect between the MPAA and differing points of view as well as signs that there may be progress, if slow, on an alternative.  MPAA president and former Democratic senator Chris Dodd explained to The Hollywood Reporter that he had been "assured" there would be no major opposition from the White ...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:05:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Megaupload wants servers back, briefly gets clone</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/01/20/megaupload.returns.fire.after.shutdown/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1201/megaupload.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Megaupload reacted vigorously to shutdowns and arrests with action of its own.  In conversation with Reuters, defending attorney Ira Rothken said Megaupload was "looking at its legal options" to bring its site back online.  The lawyer objected to FBI and media industry claims that Megaupload was a criminal conspiracy and said that simply having a file upload service wasn't grounds for the raids th...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 03:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>ESA backtracks, drops SOPA support after momentum turns</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/01/20/esa.drops.sopa.support.only.after.too.late/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1201/xbox360gamepad2010-2.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[The Entertainment Software Association engaged in what many saw as bandwagoneering Friday after it dropped its previous support for the Stop Online Piracy Act.  Now that the bill had been indefinitely postponed following large-scale protests, the game advocacy group switched to arguing for a law that "balances both creative and technology interests."  It claimed to have wanted an even approach "fr...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 01:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>European Commission VP attacks SOPA</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/01/20/neelie.kroes.twits.against.sopa.bill/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1201/neeliekroesin.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[The latest to speak out against the controversial SOPA and PIPA bills is European Union Commissioner for the Digital Agenda, Neelie Kroes. "Glad tide is turning on SOPA: don't need bad legislation when should be safeguarding benefits of open net," she wrote in a Twitter message. The legislation, if passed, would give the US Justice Department to shut down sites simply suspected of sharing pirated ...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:05:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>PIPA, SOPA bills postponed after protests</title>
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<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1201/congress-3.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Both Congress and the Senate have delayed votes on their joint controversial Senate majority leader Harry Reid has stated that he decided to at least delay the vote on the controversial Protect IP Act (PIPA).  He explained it as a reaction to "recent events," a euphemism for the widescale protests that turned numerous Senators against the bill....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:50:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>SOPA bill revisions to resume in February</title>
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<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1201/congress-3.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Republican Congressman and Judiciary Committee chair Lamar Smith stated Tuesday that the Stop Online Piracy Act would resume the drafting process in February.  Despite hopes from opponents that a shelving meant it was stopped, the contentious bill would be back to the markup phase.  Pre-election retreats were the immediate reason for the pause, Smith said....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:40:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Obama administration says it would block SOPA as-is</title>
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<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1111/whitehouse-2.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[The Obama administration in a direct response on Saturday hinted it would veto any version of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), and by extension the Protect IP Act (PIPA), that included domain name blocking.  The White House statement said that any proposal had to be narrowly focused on clearly criminal activity and "must not tamper" with the DNS system that translates web domains to IP addresses...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 21:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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