Mr Watson, who was not on board, claims the skirmish happened in international waters, making it an act of piracy.
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Not for the first time on this three-month-long mission, the Northumberland has found itself in the same region as an act of piracy but without the advance warning to stop it.
In 1975, the notion of a South-East Asian Cuba could persuade America to ignore an act of international piracy.
But during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on one of the proposals (the so-called Stop Online Piracy Act), proponents of the measure disregarded all facts showing why their solution is worse than the problem.
Warner Brothers is a staunch supporter of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), and keeps a keen eye out for infringement of its own copyright and trademarks.
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From these platforms, and with his remarkable skills as a writer, he was able to play a crucial role in alerting the Net to the dangers of the Stop Online Piracy Act that would have given the government more power to shut down sites at the blink of the content industry's stink eye.
The mandate of the European Union taskforce - of which the Northumberland is part - is to act as a deterrent and try and stop acts of piracy in process or about to take place.
Ohanian emerged as a vocal opponent of the Stop Online Piracy Act.
There has been lots of great analysis of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the potential side effects its enactment would have for Internet providers and content distributors.
GoDaddy has found itself siding with law enforcement before, both in its controversial support of the Stop Online Piracy Act and this Congressional testimony affirming their willingness to take websites down even without an order from a judge.
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Darrell Issa, a US congressman and vocal critic of the stalled Stop Online Piracy Act (Sopa), voiced his concerns about Acta at the World Economics Forum in Davos.
Opponents of the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act have been busy building tools to identify which corporations have lobbied for the bill to better boycott their products.
Analysts say that there is a risk that the Anonymous campaign could become confused with the broader campaign against the House of Representatives' Stop Online Piracy Act (Sopa) and the Senate's Protect Intellectual Property Act (Pipa).
Whether it's illegal downloads (the target of the failed Stop Online Piracy Act in Congress) or DVR systems that let users quickly and easily zoom past advertising, the new-media landscape offers a host of hurdles that have left some entertainers and, by extension, entertainment companies, struggling to adapt.
Even as they were drafting the language for the Stop Online Piracy Act, it appears that the United States Congresspeople were engaging in a liberal amount of online piracy, according to a report from Torrent Freak.
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But, lacking the sort of vocal opposition that halted the Stop Internet Piracy Act (SOPA), Google is almost certain to plunge ahead.
Our movement involved a new coalition of actors, many of whom were part of the vocal opposition to the doomed Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA, but also involved groups such as the Tea Party Nation and the National College Republicans.
The point of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act was to protect content holders and prevent piracy.
Please, call or write your Members of Congress and tell them to oppose the Stop Online Piracy Act.
You may have heard that Congress is currently considering a bill called the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA. While SOPA has a ton of problems, there are some significant issues that I thought fellow gamers might want to know about.
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The former cattle rancher, Grateful Dead lyricist and founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation has been engaged in that battle for 25 years, longer than many of the young Internet users opposing the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) have been old enough to sit at a keyboard.
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He cited the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act (Sopa) in the United States as an example of the kind of threat facing online freedom.
There are other choices for the ESA and other supporters of these laws to get behind, like the OPEN Act - a flawed but reasonable piece of legislation which achieves many important victories over piracy without the use of censorship.
The Stop Online Piracy Act (or SOPA) in the House is the more famous of the two.
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We can only act within the boundaries of current Finnish legislation which does not permit rights holders to tackle piracy in softer and more efficient ways.
Wikipedia, which attracts millions of hits every day, is opposed to the US Stop Online Piracy Act (Sopa) and Protect Intellectual Property Act (Pipa) being debated by Congress.
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White's personal information, including his Social Security number, cellphone number and address, was published online just moments after the exchange, in which he defended his company's support of the controversial -- and now-shelved -- Stop Online Piracy Act.
The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and its Senate companion, Protect IP Act (PIPA), were ostensibly designed to deal with a very real problem: rampant piracy of copyrighted material by foreign websites, particularly those in China.
As a journalist who has watched circulation of newspapers collapse over the last 10 years, I initially thought that the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) might be a wonderful thing for print media companies.
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