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Highlights of 2009

We here at PK have a lot to celebrate this season. Thanks to your
support, we’ve accomplished a great deal during this past year. And
because our workload keeps growing, we also added five new staffers in
2009. Even so, we’re a small organization compared to our
opponents. Despite this fact, we’ve managed to successfully fight
for your rights on a number of fronts. Here are a few key fights where
you made a difference in 2009:

• Net
  Neutrality: For over five years, we’ve been working to ensure
  that the Internet remains open and we’re now closer than ever to
  realizing that goal. Thanks to your support, the FCC has initiated a
  public proceeding, which holds the potential to enshrine Net Neutrality
  as a government-protected right.

• Anti-Counterfeiting Trade
  Agreement (ACTA): This year, PK and its allies were able to draw
  considerable attention to the problems of transparency that surround
  ACTA, an agreement that poses grave threats to a balanced copyright
  regime. Thanks to the help of bloggers, journalists, industry partners
  and supporters like you, we’ve been able to bring our message to
  policymakers at the White House and in Congress.

• Selectable Output
  Control (SOC): We were the first to warn you that Hollywood was
  trying to turn off the outputs on the back of your home entertainment
  equipment and you heeded our call. Thanks to the thousands of you who
  filed comments at the FCC, the Commission has decided not to fast-track
  SOC, to introduce transparency to a previously opaque process and to
  give this controversial issue the scrutiny it deserves.

• PKTV: This year, we
  launched PKTV to help spread the word and explain complicated topics in
  simple ways. While many of our videos are fun to watch, a number of our
  clips also played important roles in policy debates during the past
  year. In a filing at the FCC, Hollywood felt the need to
  respond to points that Harold made in an episode of “Five Minutes
  With Harold Feld”. And earlier in the year, we used PKTV to
  show you the
  presentation that Hollywood and the FCC didn’t want you to
  see—a clip that was featured on TechDirt,
  TechCrunch and the Hollywood Reporter and which was
  watched by thousands of folks on YouTube.

These are just a few of the many areas where we’ve given your
concerns a voice in Washington during the past year. Your support is
crucial as we continue to fight for your rights in the areas of
technology, communications and copyright.