Posts Tagged ‘SOPA’

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Facebook IPO Pitch: Can it Win Big Investors? (Mashable) Looking ahead toward its much-anticipated IPO later this month, Facebook has produced a 30-minute video pitch to show big-time investors why sinking money into a publicly traded Facebook will be a good idea. It’s an interesting take on the normal business investment pitch video — instead of a heavy emphasis on dry finance numbers, Facebook plays to the heartstrings. Reuters In the presentation, chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg said mobile is a key area of growth for Facebook, and that the company would use sponsored stories to generate more advertising income. Advertisers pay Facebook to highlight certain stories. These sponsored posts recently started running on the News Feeds of Facebook mobile users. Financial Times Pricing for Facebook’s premium “social” advertisements continues to rise, two recent studies have found — a positive indicator that could offset concerns about a dip in advertising growth and help sentiment towards the internet company’s initial public offering. A report to be released today by Marin Software, a digital marketing platform that processes more than $100 million worth of spending on Facebook, found a 26 percent increase over the last year in the cost per click for “premium” ad formats. AllFacebook Facebook’s initial public offering slated for May 18 hasn’t slowed its acquisition frenzy, as the social network gobbled up location-based mobile application Glancee for an undisclosed amount. Glancee, an app for Apple iOS and Android devices, allowed users to sign in with Facebook and discover other users within a specified distance with similar interests. Fortune The economy is improving. Berkshire Hathaway’s stock is undervalued. And Facebook is a crapshoot. That was the general feeling at a gathering of investors on the eve of Berkshire Hathaway’s annual meeting. Read more

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Viacom Wins Reversal in Landmark YouTube Case (Reuters)
A U.S. appeals court dealt Google Inc a major defeat by reviving lawsuits by Viacom Inc, the English Premier League and various other media companies over the use of copyrighted videos on Google’s YouTube service without permission. Bloomberg Viacom sued in 2007, seeking $1 billion in damages and claiming that YouTube users were illegally uploading thousands of videos of Viacom television programs, such as South Park and The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, and movies from its Paramount Pictures studio. ZDNet The case translates to putting the burden of responsibility back on the website owner, rather than the uploader, which could send massive ripples through the online community from search engines to social networks, like Facebook and Google+. Gizmodo The outcome of the case will hinge entirely on whether YouTube “knew” that all of this copyrighted material was out there and what “knowing” actually means. Read more

Last week some of the web’s most popular sites, from Wikipedia to Reddit, went dark to protest SOPA and PIPA. The protest was enough to stop SOPA in its tracks (at least for the time being), and Visual.ly, the world’s largest database of infographic, has put together a nice visualization of ‘How the People and Social Media Changed Congress’ Mind in One Day.’

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After yesterday’s SOPA protests and blackouts the anti-SOPA and PIPA movement has got more traction than ever. A pretty impressive amount of Congressman stopped backing the bills yesterday, but there’s still work to do. To that end, we decided to put together a list of some of the most popular SOPA videos on YouTube to educate and inspire action.

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Unless you’ve been hiding in your IP-hidden digital cave for the last few weeks, you’re probably aware that the Internet is currently rife with protests for SOPA, the Stop Online Privacy Act.  Critics from Silicon Valley and various technology companies around the world blacked out their sites to protest the bill, which effectively would give the American government a kill-switch to shut down websites that have pirated content.

So how has the social web been responding?

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Today the biggest Internet protest in history is going down and as sites like Reddit and Wikipedia blackout against SOPA and PIPA, Fight for the Future has released an infographic update about where SOPA currently stands in Congress.

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As the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) awaits a vote by The House Judiciary Committee, critics complain that the anti-piracy bill goes too far in giving the government – and the entertainment industry – too much power in protecting intellectual property.

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We recently covered Reddit’s co-founder Alexis Ohanian appearing on Bloomberg TV to protest SOPA and explain how if SOPA existed years ago, Reddit wouldn’t be able to get itself off the ground.  Well, they’re taking it a step further.  Reddit will be completely blacking out the site as Alexis heads to Congress to protest the bill.

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It’s no surprise that Google, who lists “you can make money without doing evil” on their official company philosophy page, has spoken up against the recent SOPA online privacy act, which gives the US government the ability to “hijack DNS and censor search results” at their own whim.  It’s a controversial bill that has people on every side of media production and publishing speaking up about the proliferation of free and pirated content on the web.

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