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The full story of Project Goliath and Hollywood's quest to control the web
When a digital attack revealed the private emails of Sony Pictures employees, it also revealed a number of troubling anti-piracy projects that would cut against the basic engineering principles of the web. MPAA documents revealed that Hollywood hasn't given up on SOPA, the controversial anti-piracy that was struck down in Congress in 2011, and is looking into ways it could justify the same proposals under existing law. The industry's biggest adversary in that fight is Google, referred to over and over again under the codename "Goliath."
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January 2, 2015
The MPAA has a new plan to stop copyright violations at the border
A controversial ruling would give trade courts new power over the web, and a frightening new weapon against piracy
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December 19, 2014
Mississippi's attorney general calls 'a time out' after Google sues him
The aftermath of Project Goliath
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December 16, 2014
Sony leaks reveal Hollywood is trying to break DNS, the backbone of the internet
A leaked legal memo reveals a plan for blacklisting pirate sites at the ISP level
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December 15, 2014
The MPAA had secret meetings with Comcast to talk about breaking the internet
The MPAA met with a senior Comcast engineer to discuss the mechanics of wiping infringing sites off the web
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December 12, 2014
Project Goliath: Inside Hollywood's secret war against Google
SOPA was just the beginning