Epic clash: Silicon Valley blindsides Hollywood on piracy

Reuters Media - on 23/1/12
By Sarah McBride and Lisa Richwine Mon Jan 23, 2012 11:54am EST ( Reuters Loading... ) - The massive online protest last Wednesday, in which Wikipedia and thousands of other websites closed down or otherwise protested and helped to kill controversial online piracy legislation, was widely heralded as an unprecedented case of a grassroots uprising overcoming backroom lobby...
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(Reuters) - The massive online protest last Wednesday, in which Wikipedia and thousands of other websites closed down or otherwise protested and helped to kill controversial online piracy legislation, was widely heralded as an unprecedented case of a grassroots uprising overcoming backroom lobbying.

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