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SOPA
PODCAST: Yahoo! or Yahoo?
by
Mary Dooe
Jan 18, 2012
News of Jerry Yang's exit from Yahoo after 17 years may mean that the company will have to fine tune its vision. Home Depot has just announced it's going to hire 70,000 seasonal workers over the next few months, but how many of those temps will land permanent jobs? Plus, we look at the true costs of online piracy.
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The true costs of online piracy
by
Adriene Hill
Jan 18, 2012
Today, Wikipedia is blacking-out its site to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act. But are the costs of online piracy as high as some claim?
Jerry Yang leaves Yahoo as Wikipedia blacks out
by
John Moe
Jan 18, 2012
Big tech news today as a co-founder of Yahoo jumps ship. Meanwhile, Wikipedia is fighting against SOPA by blacking out its site for 24 hours.
Calculating the costs of online piracy
by
Kai Ryssdal
Jan 18, 2012
Stephen Siwek, a consultant at Economist Incorporated, discusses how the cost of piracy is determined.
Wikipedia goes dark, Yang goes home
by
Molly Wood
Jan 18, 2012
A SOPA/PIPA protest, and a Yahoo! founder's departure.
Why businesses care about SOPA
by
Josh Brown
Jan 18, 2012
The Stop Online Piracy Act will most likely not pass in its current form in Congress. But why do businesses want -- or not want -- it to make it?
For public good, not for profit.
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Tomorrow brings a whole lotta nothin’, thanks to SOPA and Wikipedia
by
Marc Sanchez
Jan 17, 2012
Darkness sweeps over the land
SOPA might be dead anyway, regardless of Wikipedia protest
by
John Moe
Jan 17, 2012
A lot of attention is going to be paid in the next 48 hours to Wikipedia’s one-day blackout in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act. But it might be a little bit like protesting Adam Sandler’s Jack & Jill winning the Oscar for Best Picture: probably not going to happen anyway. Rep. Darrell Issa […]