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🗓️ 15 March 2013
⏱️ 50 minutes
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0:00.0 | You're listening to the Corbett Report. |
0:07.0 | Corbett report. |
0:09.0 | Corbett Report. |
0:20.6 | I'm your host James Corbett of Corbett report.com coming to you as always from the sunny |
0:25.1 | climbs of Western Japan here on this 15th day of March 2013. |
0:30.4 | Welcome to episode 262 of the Corporate Report Podcast, Solutions Pirate Internet. |
0:38.0 | When the historians of some future era sit down to write about the history of the development |
0:42.4 | of the Internet in our own day and age, |
0:44.8 | they will no doubt note that heady time at the beginning of 2012 when the public, galvanized |
0:50.5 | by the perceived threat to internet freedoms represented by the |
0:53.6 | sopa and PIPA legislation in the US House and Senate, mounted an unprecedented |
0:58.6 | awareness and protest campaign consisting of petitions, blackouts, and good old-fashioned street activism |
1:05.8 | that eventually succeeded in killing those bills. |
1:10.0 | The Internet is one of the United States most robust and growing industries. |
1:17.0 | It enables free and open communication among billions and it's been the backbone of protests around the world. |
1:23.0 | But a new bill proposes we give the power to censor the internet to the entertainment industry. |
1:29.0 | It's called Protect IP and here's how it works. |
1:32.0 | Private corporations want the ability to shut down |
1:36.2 | unauthorized sites where people download movies, TV shows, and music. Since most of |
1:41.5 | these sites are outside US.S. jurisdiction, Protect IP uses a couple different |
1:45.8 | tactics within American borders. Firstly, it gives the government the power to make U.S. internet |
1:51.2 | providers block access to infringing domain names. |
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