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		<title>SOPA Support Dries Up, But MegaUpload.com Get Bucket of Cold Water</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:28:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Erianne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As anti-SOPA protests became more vocal and demonstrative, several supporters backed away from the online piracy bill, including the White House. This casts doubts on the passage of the bill. But perhaps just to make an example and show the world that it is still serious about taking down online pirates, the Justice Department decided [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Nook on the Hook</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:55:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Erianne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[E-readers are perhaps most innovative creation since log furniture and, while e-readers are helping Amazon expand its publishing business, Barnes &#38; Noble is getting out of direct publishing. That’s right, pretty soon, B&#38;N will not be publishing anymore Barnes and Noble Classics or anything else. It seems the the big book retailers is planning to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Cost of Doing Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 01:17:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Erianne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even Danica Patrick in a bikini couldn’t help GoDaddy.com when the famous Internet company thought it was a good idea to support SOPA. Thousands of GoDaddy clients banded together to show the domain registrar exactly who’s wearing the man boots and who’s wearing womens boots by organizing a boycott.&#160; In a span of a few [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SOPA Will Break the Internet, But Will Not Stop Online Piracy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:35:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Erianne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If the supporters of the Stop Online Piracy Act believe there piece of crap bill will actually stop intellectual property theft, I’ve got some motorhome insurance to sell ya. Seriously, Online pirates will adapt if this bill becomes law. What will happen is a gross violation of our constitutional rights, a violation that will essentially [...]]]></description>
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		<title>They Did a Bad, Bad Thing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 15:37:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Erianne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A while back, I said that even though I was firmly against the “agency model” for pricing e-books, I did not believe that Apple colluded with publishers. Well… as the lawsuit against Apple and the mainstream publishers moves forward, information has come to light to make me rethink my initial conclusion. If we roll up [...]]]></description>
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