Jimmy Wales or Kim Dotcom - is anti-SOPA about fundamental principles or competing commercial interests?

Tony Curzon Price [1] and Albert Wenger [2] 28 January 2012

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[11]In this podcast, Tony Curzon Price talks to Albert Wenger [12], partner at Union Square Ventures [13], the venture capital fund behind a lot of the most innovative and visible web companies of today, to try to understand: is anti-SOPA activism more about principle or about the competing interests of big Tech vs. big Entertainment

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Tony Curzon Price was Editor-in-Chief of openDemocracy from 2007 to 2012, where he is now contributing editor and technical director. He blogs at tony.curzon.com [18]

Albert Wenger has a PhD in computer science from MIT and has been a technology CEO and investor for 15 years. He is a partner at Union Square Ventures [19]. He blogs at Continuations [12] and Tweets as @albertwenger [20]

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