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Wired.com is reporting how the Motion Picture Association of America doesn’t like Ars Technica over the matter of regulatory overreach. Wired mentioned that MPAA staffers might think along these sorts of lines, “ars Technica opposes our attempt to gain ‘broadcast flag’ control over people’s digital devices,” they might say. “And it doesn’t appreciate our plan to censor the Internet.”

The U.S. Copyright Office in the near future is going to take into account a request that could actually render content protection on DVD insignificant. Every 36 months the Copyright Office listens to inquiries intended for exceptions towards the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and also this time around the public electronic digital advocacy group Public Knowledge is asking about authorities to legalize the capability for consumers to develop duplicates of Dvd videos encrypted with content scrambling system replicate protection software.

Wikipedia will definitely go down for 24-hours so that it will protest the U.S. anti-piracy legislation – Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA). Worst-case situations of the planned new legislation are getting debated. The Electronic Frontier Foundation speculates, “Instead of complying with the DMCA, a copyright owner may now be able to use these new provisions to effectively shut down a site by cutting off access to its domain name, its search engine hits, its ads, and its other financing even if the safe harbors would apply.”