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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: [3] 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): [4] 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): [5] 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: [6] 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” [7]. And earlier in the year, we used PKTV to
show you the
presentation that Hollywood and the FCC didn’t want you to
see [8]—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.
