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Internet  The Big Idea for Sunday, March 10, 2013  How did a
grass roots movement take on an industry with a powerful lobby
and win?   The SOPA movement shows us how traditional power
structures are being turned on their head to create a future
that is significantly more democratized, distributed and
universal. Indeed, as Elizabeth Stark explains in today's
lesson, it was the open Internet itself that stopped SOPA, a
piece of legislation that would have blacklisted websites that
might infringe on copyright law.     1. 1 Don't Mess with the
Internet: Lessons From the SOPA Movement     Daniel Honan
Collective Intelligence   2. 2 The Right to Piracy: The Conflict
Behind SOPA     Brad Burnham   3. 3 Digital Pirates, 3D Printing
and the End of Copyright     Dominic Basulto Endless Innovation
4. 4 Hurray for SOPA!     Daniel H