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# Jimmy Wales or Kim Dotcom - is anti-SOPA about fundamental principles or competing commercial interests?
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/jimmy-wales-or-kim-dotcom-is-anti-sopa-about-fundamental/
- Published: 2012-01-28T10:01:01.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-22T10:50:17.000Z
- Description: In this podcast, Tony Curzon Price talks to Albert Wenger, partner at Union Square Ventures, 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 Tec
- Author: Tony Curzon Price
- Tags: Media & communications, #Migrated, United States & Canada, media & the net, internet, New York, United States, web, #en, #Import 2026-04-09 16:12, #appended-excerpt

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[](http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jan/27/kim-dotcom-model-yacht-fat-bloke?ref=opendemocracy.net)In this podcast, Tony Curzon Price talks to [Albert Wenger](http://continuations.com/?ref=opendemocracy.net), partner at [Union Square Ventures](http://content.usv.com/pages/albert-wenger?ref=opendemocracy.net), 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