YouTube and MTV Try to Shut Down New Cheney Indictment Film

By Joan Brunwasser Film Website and Action Page JB: My guest today is the Pen. Welcome to OpEdNews! Before we get started, can you please tell our readers a little about the Pen, who you are and what you do? P: The Pen happens to be my full, legal name. But people call me just [...]

A Schizophrenic Hypocrisy in Hollyweird?

Busted: BitTorrent Pirates at Sony, Universal and Fox With increasing lobbying efforts from the entertainment industry against BitTorrent sites and users, we wondered whether these companies hold themselves to the same standards they demand of others. After some initial skimming we’ve discovered BitTorrent pirates at nearly every major entertainment industry company in the US, including [...]

“ACTA” is SOPA’s Pimp Daddy

The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is a proposed plurilateral agreement for the purpose of establishing international standards on intellectual property rights enforcement. Like the WTO this supra-national treaty aims to clamp down on the global internet in the same way that SOPA/PIPA would have clamped down inside the United States. See the Wikipedia page for [...]

MPAA’s Fraudulent Data About Piracy

This is pretty huge, the alleged “huge problem” of lost revenue due to internet piracy: Finally, in 2010, the Government Accountability Office released a report noting that these figures “cannot be substantiated or traced back to an underlying data source or methodology.” How Copyright Industries Con Congress Of the total $6.1 billion in annual losses [...]

Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales Debates Copyright Alliance

I would never label someone a Copyright Nazi Bitch, but if some viewers got that vibe…

PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks the Internet (Action Needed)

http://fightforthefuture.org/pipa/ Sign petition today and pass it on. The internet is rebelling against these authoritarian censorship measures.

Saving Private Perez (2011)

Saving Private Perez Joe Giambrone A Mexican action-comedy that delivers a solid story. I loved this movie. It remained true to itself throughout and it brought some unlikely characters into the middle of the American invasion of Iraq, while keeping a distance from the American propaganda about that fiasco. Crime boss Julian Perez, the most [...]