According to Rupert Murdoch, President Obama is joining common cause with “Silicon Valley paymasters who threaten all software creators with piracy, plain thievery" for his dislike of SOPA and PIPA. 

Quite aside from the issues around IP protection on the internet, the really galling aspect of this situation is to hear Rupert Murdoch spouting off accusations of thievery and wrong-doing while he is still entangled with the News of the World phone hacking scandal, where – quite simply – his journalists stole news by hacking into private voicemails. And that is before you get to consider that much of his success today is based on his wholesale hijacking of nation after nation’s sports and in so doing, forcing the poor public to purchase his subscription and pay-per-view services. Now this sports-jacking may have been legal, but it was deeply cynical and is in exactly the same dodgy bracket as Google’s fairly indefensible selling of ads alongside streaming services for pirated content.

I am sure some fellow a while back was going on about not casting stones if maybe you’re just a touch dubious yourself...

Julian