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If SOPA passes, people who stream copyrighted content could go to jail for five years.","authors":"Jon Stewart","source":{"rating":"4.0","name":"Daily Show","framebuster":false,"id":"daily_show","ownership":"ind","type":"tv","is_public":true}},{"rating":"3.7","num_reviews":"2","title":"Support for Internet Bill Wanes as Protests Spread","url":"http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/19/technology/web-protests-piracy-bill-and-2-key-senators-change-course.html","date":"2012/01/18","id":8519925,"story_type":"News Report","quote":"Senator Marco Rubio, Republican of Florida, announced he would no longer back the anti-Internet piracy legislation he had co-sponsored. Senator John Cornyn, a Texas Republican, quickly followed suit.","authors":"Jonathan Weisman","source":{"rating":"3.6","name":"New York Times","framebuster":true,"id":"new_york_times","ownership":"ind","type":"newspaper","is_public":true}},{"rating":"3.9","num_reviews":"1","title":"Key Senator Abandons The Protect IP Ship","url":"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/18/marco-rubio-protect-ip-act_n_1213062.html","date":"2012/01/18","id":8519924,"story_type":"News","quote":"Home to the Disney World and Universal Studios theme parks, Rubio's Florida may be the most Hollywood-centric state outside California, and Rubio had been one of the first senators to sign on in support of Protect IP when Sen. Pat Leahy (D-Vt.) introduce","authors":"Zach Carter","source":{"rating":"3.6","name":"Huffington Post","framebuster":false,"id":"huffington_post","ownership":"ind","type":"online","is_public":true}},{"rating":"3.8","num_reviews":"1","title":"Jon Stewart Has Some Harsh Words For SOPA And Its Sponsors","url":"http://gawker.com/5877415/jon-stewart-has-some-harsh-words-for-sopa-and-its-sponsors","date":"2012/01/18","id":8520927,"story_type":"Comedy News","quote":"On tonight's Daily Show, Jon Stewart attempted to wrap his head around SOPA and its draconian take on internet piracy. He saved his harshest criticisms for its sponsors in Congress and their inability to truly understand (a) the internet and (b) what their bill will actually do.","authors":"Matt Toder, Jon Stewart","source":{"rating":"0.0","name":"Gawker","framebuster":false,"id":"gawker","ownership":"ind","type":"blog","is_public":true}},{"rating":"3.7","num_reviews":"4","title":"Web Piracy Bills Invite a Protracted Battle","url":"http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/16/technology/web-piracy-bills-invite-a-protracted-battle.html","date":"2012/01/16","id":8516470,"story_type":"News Report","quote":"The Obama administration\u2019s statement of opposition to antipiracy legislation let the technology industry claim a victory, but few in Silicon Valley or Hollywood consider the battle over.","authors":"Jenna Wortham, Somini Sengupta","source":{"rating":"3.6","name":"New York Times","framebuster":true,"id":"new_york_times","ownership":"ind","type":"newspaper","is_public":true}},{"rating":"3.5","num_reviews":"1","title":"? 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He'd built his Long Beach shop, West Coast Choppers, into an empire, wrenching custom $80,000-plus motorcycles for a celebrity clientele \u2014 an endeavor he spun off into a mass-market clothing line for Wal-Mart, a glossy gearhead magazine and an eco-friendly burger joint he hoped to franchise.","authors":"Susan Carpenter","source":{"rating":"3.6","name":"Los Angeles Times","framebuster":false,"id":"los_angeles_times","ownership":"ind","type":"newspaper","is_public":true}},{"rating":"2.0","num_reviews":"1","title":"Romney's Making the Right Play in Iowa","url":"http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/21/romneys-making-the-right-play-in-iowa/","date":"2011/11/22","id":8426054,"story_type":"Opinion","quote":"Jeff Zeleny\u2019s weekend story about how Mitt Romney\u2019s campaign will exert more rather than less effort in Iowa deserves your attention. It reflects what is perhaps the most important strategic decision that any Republican candidate will make this year. 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At the dinner, Makana opened his jacket to reveal a t-shirt which read, \"Occupy with Aloha.\" Then, instead of performing the background instrumental he was scheduled to play, he started to sing a protest song he had released earlier that day.","authors":"Amy Goodman","source":{"rating":"4.0","name":"Democracy Now","framebuster":false,"id":"democracy_now","ownership":"ind","type":"tv","is_public":true}}]