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SOPA: How Is Piracy Affecting Angelenos?
The "creative communities" of LA and Orange County are losing jobs, and there's a ripple effect on all those supporting artists and entertainers. Many blame Internet piracy.
By Warren Olney • • 53m ListenThe "creative communities" of LA and Orange County are losing jobs. Employment in arts and entertainment dropped by 11% between 2007 and 2010, and there's a ripple effect on all those supporting artists and entertainers — directly and indirectly — from technicians, writers, hairdressers and caterers to all the people they do business with. Many people in Hollywood blame Internet piracy, and they've made it a hot issue on Capitol Hill. We've sampled KCRW listeners who work in the industry through Facebook and the Public Insight Network. We hear from them and others. On our rebroadcast of today's To the Point, is Newt Gingrich another flash in the pan?
Banner image: Nadine Wolf wears tape over her mouth as she joins a protest against proposed laws to curb Internet piracy. Photo by Stan Honda/AFP/Getty Images
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2 storiesSOPA: Internet Piracy and Hollywood Economics
Former US Senator Chris Dodd is now chair of the Motion Picture Association of America . The MPAA is sponsoring SOPA and PIPA , acronyms for measures in the Congress and Senate giving the Justice Department broad powers to battle Internet piracy. In reaction, Wikipedia shut down for a day and 10,000 lesser websites did, too.
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It's only January, and already the race for the Republican presidential nomination feels like it's gone on forever and that it might never end. Newt Gingrich clobbered Mitt Romney Saturday in South Carolina , and it turns out that Romney didn't really win Iowa after all.
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