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Saturday, January 21st, 2012

LOCAL SOPA IN THE WORKS?

InterAksyon yesterday reported the clamor of several groups from the record, film, and software industries to pass a bill mirroring the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the U.S. The information, the same report said, came from Universal Records executive-vice president Ramon Chuaying. Earlier this week, civil actions protesting SOPA/PIPA—including the 24-hour Wikipedia blackout, as well as an artists’ open letter to Washington, among several others—spread like wildfire. This was followed by the shutting down of Megaupload by the Feds, and the “revenge spree” of self-styled “fighters for Internet freedom” Anonymous through a series of hackings. (FBI’s side of the story, by the way, is here.) Chuaying, in the same InterAksyon report, identified the Philippine Association of the Record Industry (PARI); the Anti-Film Piracy Council; the Motion Picture Association; the Business Software Alliance; and the IP Coalition as the groups clamoring for such a legislative move. Chuaying told InterAksyon, “[…] [If] this law passes, we can require the Internet [service] provider to block off websites hosting illegal content.” He lamented that, without such a law, the music industry will cease to exist. In the projected law, record companies may penalize copyright violators “by forcing Internet service providers to discontinue their subscription,” InterAksyon’s John Mark V. Tuazon further reported. Read more here. (Pulse.ph)

Image by Frits Ahlefeldt-Laurvig (a.k.a. HikingArtist.com), via Flickr Creative Commons. Some rights reserved.

You may listen in to the interview posted by Alora Uy-Guerrero a.k.a. mommytechie (co-conducted by InterAksyon’s John Mark V. Tuazon) on YouTube, below. (Meanwhile, her account for TechLokal can be read here.)

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