At today's Internet Caucus event on Capitol Hill, TechDirt's Mike Masnick addressed congressional staff and tech representatives contending that the problem of online piracy is solely the responsibility of the content creators. His message was, if someone is stealing your content online, it's your fault. Piracy is actually good for [...]
ACT reached out to Capitol Hill today to highlight improvements in the latest version of Rogue Website legislation while outlining the remaining concerns we have with the existing draft scheduled for a vote in the House Judiciary Committee tomorrow. ACT also addressed the Wyden/Issa plan in separate correspondence. The letters: [...]
The Association for Competitive Technology has long supported the protection of intellectual property as a critical element of small business. Representing over 4,000 small business software developers we understand the damage that piracy poses to the innovation economy and recognize the role that government and industry must play in stopping [...]
In my last post, Hillicon Valley Gets Duped by Anti-IPR “Activists,” I noted that a group called “Fight for the Future” was dead wrong about the effects of S. 978, a bill proposing that the criminal penalties for high-volume, intentional, for-profit mass piracy should be similar, regardless of whether they [...]
The Hill’s technology blog, Hillicon Valley just posted Brendan Sasso’s story, Bill would send Justin Bieber to prison, group says. As the father of a fourth-grade girl, I assumed that that the bill mentioned must expand criminal-nuisance laws. But the whole story was just nonsense: It just recorded gibberish spouted [...]