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Commercial Felony
Protect IP Act and Commercial Felony Streaming Act (Bieber bill) introduced in Senate.
Overwhelming initial support: 40 co-sponsors, 11 at time of introduction -
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Sopa & Pipa
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Protect IP
Protect IP Act passes Senate Judiciary Committee by unanimous voice vote.
Mark-up session is 7 minutes long and no amendments are debated.
Bill is placed on Senate calendar.
Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) immediately announces opposition -
Felony
Commercial Felony Streaming Act is passed by Judiciary Committee by unanimous voice vote. -
Gamers
Gamer community recognizes the broad implications the felony streaming provisions in S. 978 (which later became part of SOPA).
Videos by gamers are increasingly posted on YouTube.
A Demand Progress call to action gains attention. -
SOPA
FreeBieber.org launches against the felony-streaming provisions in S. 978, provisions that would eventually became part of SOPA. -
Video
Anti-PIPA video released by FFTF
4 million+ views over next 3 months on Vimeo + YouTube -
SOPA
SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) introduced in House with strong support
31 co-sponsors (12 at time of introduction) -
sopa
Justin Bieber says on the radio that Amy Klobuchar should be ‘locked up’ for supporting the felony-streaming provisions in S. 978 and SOPA -
SOPA
The House Judiciary Committee holds hearings on SOPA -
Protest
Responding to day of protests, Nancy Pelosi tweets her opposition to SOPA -
Calls
100,000's of calls during coalition-wide call-in campaigns to House Judiciary Committee -
Colbert
Colbert Report covers SOPA / PIPA
One of the first major television coverage moments
(many TV news parent companies are SOPA supporters) -
House
The House Judiciary Committee holds hearings on SOPA
Huge online audience for the hearing
Dozens of amendments introduced and voted down -
Hearing
Hearing ends without completing markup -
Reddit
Reddit post suggests transferring domains away from GoDaddy for their support of SOPA and PIPA. Over 80,000 domain names were transferred in a matter of days
On December 23, Wikipedia announces transfer of all domains from GoDaddy. -
Go Daddy
GoDaddy issues statement changing their public position on the bills to opposed. -
Ryan
Operation Pull Ryan on reddit generates $15,000 for the opposition candidate -
People
People attend town halls and start organizing in-person meetings with their Senators over the January recess -
Congress
More members of congress start to come out against the bills citing meeting with constituents. -
Strike
SOPA Strike is announced for Jan 18th - sopastrike.com launches to organize protest -
Obama
Obama administration publishes blog post opposing SOPA / PIPA -
Strike
The web goes on strike, it is the largest online protewst in history precipitated by reddit.com, wikipedia, and grassroots groups -
Pipa
Senate plans to take up PIPA