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Responding to the mass protests against the PIPA and SOPA bills on Wednesday, the MPAA has revealed its true nature.

First, MPAA CEO Chris Dodd described the blackouts of Wikipedia, Reddit and others as corporate PR stunts which manipulated and exploited the sites’ users.

With several new anti-piracy bills in the works, the MPAA and RIAA have ramped up their lobbying efforts in Washington.

With more than a $5 million spend in the first half of 2011, this year might even break all previous records.

As is tradition, the RIAA is the biggest spender of the two entertainment industry lobbying groups.

In the first two quarters of this year the music industry representatives spent over $3.8 million in Washington.

PORTLAND, ORE. — Just a year after OpenStack was formed by Rackspace and NASA, OSCON welcomed the debut of Nebula.

GitHub, the popular code repository, is bringing developers together for CodeConf today in San Francisco. GitHub CEO Chris Wanstrath said that the event was designed to be collaborative, not unlike the site itself.

We’ve been covering the ongoing meltdown at MySpace from a variety of angles, including last week’s US job cuts and today’s big international layoffs.

Another ongoing question has been the fate of Tom, co-founder of the social network and default friend to everyone who signs up.

Earlier this year when MySpace CEO Chris DeWolfe was replaced by former Facebook exec Owen Van Natta, we wondered if that meant MySpace co-founder Tom Anderson, aka default friend ‘Tom’ to all MySpace users, was also on his way out the door.