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MPAA's Chris Dodd Takes Aim At SOPA Strike
latimes.com 4 weeks, 1 day agoHollywood's chief lobbyist lashed out at tech companies for mounting Tuesday night's planned online blackout to protest proposed anti-piracy legislation that has pitted Southern California movie and music distributors against Silicon Valley Internet corporations. Motion Picture Assn. of America Chief Executive Chris Dodd, the former Senator from Connecticut, accused technology companies such as Google, Mozilla and Wikipedia of resorting to stunts. As part of the largest online strike in history, thousands o
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Google Joins U.S. Anti-Piracy Legislation Protest
toptechnews.com 4 weeks, 1 day agoGoogle is joining Wikipedia, Reddit, Boing Boing and other online organizations in a massive online protest targeting the Stop Online Piracy Act before the House of Representatives, as well as the Protect Intellectual Property Act set for debate in the Senate. "Like many businesses, entrepreneurs and Web users, we oppose these bills because there are smart, targeted ways to shut down foreign rogue Web sites without asking American companies to censor the Internet," a Google spokesperson said in a Tuesday e-








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