The Hollywood sign stands above Los Angeles (Bloomberg)
The US regulating the Internet is akin to a gorilla playing a Stradivarius. Yet many legislators are being urged to play by lobbyists for Hollywood, perhaps the most technology-intolerant industry.
The Hollywood sign stands above Los Angeles (Bloomberg)
The Motion Picture Association of America is the leading proponent for legislative proposals with ostensibly benign titles—the Stop Online Piracy Act in the House and the Protect Intellectual Property Act in the Senate. These Bills would go so far to protect copyright that they would strangle the Internet with regulation. The Web would be transformed from a permissive technology where innovation is welcome to one where websites are shut first, questions asked later
L Gordon Crovitz is a columnist for The Wall Street Journal
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