SOPA firefight comes to CES
The technology community has made substantial in-roads in efforts to stop SOPA and Protect IP, two bills pending in Congress that would expand the ability of federal law enforcement and rightsholders to police the Internet for violations of intellectual-property laws.
But the fight is far from won. That was the message yesterday at a contentious panel discussion at CES’s Innovation Policy Summit, featuring Congressional staffers along with industry representatives from both Hollywood and the technology community…
…Casey Rae-Hunter of the Future of Music Coalition applauded widespread protest against both the content and process of the proposed legislation. “The message is clear. Hit pause and bring in the stakeholders,” he said. In the meantime, “we’ll keep raising hell.”