The Boston Globe Publishes Editorial in Support of SOPA
From The Hill by Brendan Sasso:
The Boston Globe endorsed the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), a controversial measure to crack down on online copyright infringement, in an unsigned editorial last week.
“The Stop Online Piracy Act currently before Congress would finally give law enforcement the tools to crack down on the websites that enable Internet piracy,” the editorial board wrote, saying copyright infringement costs the U.S. economy billions of dollars every year.
The editorial noted that users can find pirated HBO shows on Google or unauthorized music videos on YouTube, and that neither “website faces repercussions.”
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Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.