Prominent German Pirate Party board member Julia Schramm has a vision for a utopian Internet: a "huge library" where "the knowledge and stories of all people are united, collected and archived" free of charge and free of "disgusting" intellectual property. It would have just one notable omission: Schramm's own book, Click Me: Confessions of an Internet Exhibitionist.
After an epically long, sometimes heated and certainly disconcerting hearing on Tuesday, the House Judiciary Committee reconvened at 10 a.m. Friday morning to finish marking up the latest draft of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).
Providers have agreed to slow Internet service for those who illegally share content
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