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December 15, 2011 11:27 pm GMT
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Brad Burnham Explains Why SOPA Must Be Stopped
The Congressional Judiciary committee is debating a bill today called the Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA) which nobody in the Internet industry wants to see passed. Not surprisingly, the bill was written by lobbyists for the music and movie industries, who are frustrated by their inability to go after foreign sites filled with pirated material. The piracy problem is real, but the proposed solutions in the form of this bill and the Senate's corresponding Protect-IP Act (PIPA) will create more problems than they solve.Brad Burnham, a managing partner at Union Square Ventures, came into the TCTV studio in New York City to explain why SOPA is misguided and how it threatens to break the internet.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/bsKL9DGPVqY/
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