I love the smell of fake grassroots movements burning in the morning. Microsoft has done the right thing and is backing away from SOPA/PIPA and hopefully some of the other big players out there will do the same. It might come as a surprise to the 1%, but the world doesn't exist for them alone. TechDirt:
Either way, it seemed somewhat amusing to discover that some of the top execs at NBC Universal have been threatening all NBC Universal suppliers to sign the letter that CreativeAmerica put together or NBC might no longer be able to do business with them:
We are writing to ask you for help on an issue that is one our top business priorities – content theft on the Internet, which is a major threat to the strength of our business. Our major guilds and unions are joining us in the fight to keep our businesses strong so that the tidal wave of content theft does not kill jobs. But if the current trend continues, it’s not too strong to say that this threat could adversely affect our business relationship with you.
