WASHINGTON — Senate and House leaders said Friday they will put off further action on online piracy legislation after a storm of protest over the measure. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Democrat, said he was postponing a procedural vote set for Tuesday “in light of recent events.” Those events included a petition drive by […]

At this point many of you may have heard about SOPA  (Stop Online Privacy Act) and may have thought that unless you needed to use Wikipedia yesterday that you should not care. That is actually not true.  I wanted to take the time to give you a high level understanding of what SOPA is and […]

Correction: Jan. 19, 10:38 EST President Barack Obama cannot “stop” the SOPA internet bill, as originally reported. NewsOne cited a Forbes article saying as much. But another Forbes writer, E.D. Cain, followed-up with this: This isn’t quite right on several levels. The bills wouldn’t give copyright holders the capacity to sue – this is already […]