SOPA

What it seem is that the Cycle is not only repeating itself but this time at a much faster speed; the January 24th 2012 Congress vote on Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is not only an indication of how heated the debate on illegal content is getting but also may be an attempt by the government to crush the unrelenting grow of e-commerce monopolies, as well as a symptom of the power struggles between the new media and the old media, framed by one side as a the battle between the content producers and the free-rider information parasites and by the other side as an effort to censor the Internet.  

For more information see: The Supreme Court and the Future of Journalism.