SOPA del Dia
Some relevant links collected during today’s SOPA blackouts, from Twitter, Metafilter and Metatalk.
Even without SOPA, big media can kill the competition: UMG vs Veoh
The Day the LOLcats Died and The Oatmeal’s blackout gag
Movie madness: Movie Marketing vs The Lawyers
Adrian Hon: SOPA is the equivalent of smashing the Gutenberg press
BBC News: Protests see the web go dark
Clay Shirky at TED: Why SOPA is a bad idea
Rick Falkvinge: It is Time to Stop Pretending to Endorse the Copyright Monopoly
And some historical perspective: When Even the Death Penalty Doesn’t Deter Copying—What Then?
[Edit, 19 January] One more, a reader’s comment at the Guardian: “Piracy is not what’s killing their profits, completely legitimate competition from the internet is.”