15 December 2011 Last updated at 13:48 GMT Film studios are stepping up efforts to combat piracy The founders of Google, Twitter and eBay have signed a strongly worded letter criticising controversial US legislation ahead of a debate in Congress. The Stop Online Piracy Act (Sopa) aims to slash the amount of pirated content on [...]
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December 15, 2011
November 16, 2011
Net giants fight US piracy bill
16 November 2011 Last updated at 13:09 GMT Google chairman Eric Schmidt said SOPA amounted to “censorship”. Web firms including Google and Facebook have written to the US government in opposition to a proposed bill to combat piracy. Alongside AOL, Twitter and eBay they claim that the Stop Online Piracy Act poses huge risks to [...]
