Protests staged at NY senators' offices

hundreds of protesters switched out Wednesday outdoors the surface of the East Side offices to NY Sens. Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand to protest the questionable antipiracy legislation now wending through Congress. Nevertheless the event was far within the raucous crowds that collected a few several days ago for your Occupy Wall Street demos. A sense of calm won, with protesters mostly remaining from chanting too noisally, together with a few police herding compliant audiences into well-maintained protest zones. Third Avenue was blocked off between 48th and 49th streets allowing the protest. The speeches, however, were rousing: "The Stop Online Piracy Act will not do much to avoid online piracy!" mentioned NYU teacher and "Cognitive Surplus" author Clay Shirky, who recommended the title in the legislation be changed for the First Amendment Sunset Act. "You can't just shut people up if you don't like what they're saying!" he told the entertaining aud. Hollywood needed its mounds within the rally, organized with the networking org NY Tech Meetup. "When Hollywood insurance supporters appear with $94 million simply because they did a year ago, both Dems and Republicans lineup,In . mentioned Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian. MoveOn.org's Eli Pariser being more adamant: "You've groups like MoveOn completely to groups like (conservative coalition) Red-colored-colored Condition who think this is often a bad idea," he mentioned. "Really the only people who think this is a great idea will be the failing old legacy media who want to go back to VHS tapes and Dvds and congresspeople." Contact Mike Thielman at mike.thielman@variety.com