The highly controversial Stop Online Piracy Act raised hackles across the country and caused the tech world to cast a wary eye on the happenings in the government since its introduction last fall. What sounded like something that should be for helping to curb the alleged problem of online piracy would have actually defined an entirely new one and threatened the future of sites with user-based input.

While the recording industry along with movie and television studios are the driving forces and logical benefactors behind such bills, the far-reaching effects of their passage has still yet to be fully understood. SOPA would have expanded the ability of the Justice Department to go after so called "rogue" Web sites overseas that traffic in fake goods like counterfeit purses or prescription drugs, but it could have done much more.

However, there are two sides to this issue. The online privacy debate is FAR from over.

Even though SOPA and PIPA are dead thanks to online and real-time activism, another similar bill is already making its way into the House.

Join us as speakers from both sides of this debate give us a revealing look at the issues and long-term implications.

DETAILS

EVENT: Night with a Futurist
DATE: February 6, 2012 - Monday
TIME: 6:30pm - 9:00pm
LOCATION: The Vault, 511 E. South Boulder Road Louisville, CO 80027

COST: Admission - $20, Members: Free, SuperMembers: Free
REGISTER: Register here to attend

PHONE: 303-666-4133

SPEAKERS:
Brett Greene, Marketing Executive
Gene Branch, Patent Attorney and Partner with the firm of Perkins Coie
Matthew Holohan, Associate at Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
HOST: Thomas Frey, Executive Director and Senior Futurist at the DaVinci Institute