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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.