SOPA Opera White House Shuts Down Proposed Online AntiPiracy Bill Google To Use Home Page Protest PIPA Tomorrow Musician Peter Gabriel Comes Out Against SOPA/PIPA; Website Will Go Dark SOPA/PIPA How Far We've Come; We Need Tim O'Reilly Explains Where The Federal Gov't Has Gone Wrong On Solving Problem Protect IP Act Breaks the Internet Why Is NBCUniversal Threatening Report Commenters They Disagree With Their Employers Debate over piracy legislation heats up It's Official Wikipedia Wednesday Newsy Now January 17 Supporters Pretend Statement Means Can Rush Through Send A Sympathy Card Over Death Of Your Senator Study Confirms News Networks Owned By Supporters... Are Ignoring List Censoring Countries MPAA Thinks Provide Good Example For US Cato Institute Digs Into MPAA's Own Research Show That Wouldn't Save Single Net Job Harry Reid Moves Approve PROTECT And Begin Al Gore Approach In Response Petition Lawmakers seem intent on approving Cable Finally Realizing Bad

Where Do SOPA & PIPA Stand Now? Over the weekend, there was a maelstrom of activity surrounding the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA). With the U.S. House of Representatives reconvening today and the Senate following next week, now is a good time to catch a collective breath and figure out the status of the two bills. SOPA vs. PIPA: Anti-piracy bills, uproar explained If you've been paying attention to the increasingly heated debate over the "Stop Online Piracy Act" (SOPA), you may have noticed a significant spike in today's news about the "Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act of 2011," or PROTECT IP Act (PIPA, for short). Newsletters and blog posts have flooded in, with the declaration that "PIPA is the ... Twitter will not join Jan. 18 SOPA/PIPA blackout — good! An increasing number of popular websites will go "black" tomorrow, in protest of the "Stop Online Piracy Act" (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA), the sibling anti-piracy bills currently in Congress. But Twitter will not be one of them. 5 Things to Know About the SOPA, PIPA Protest Wikipedia will initiate a blackout on Wednesday, Jan. 18, in protest of the anti-piracy bills SOPA and PIPA. SOPA and PIPA are two Congressional bills meant to halt the illegal copying and sharing of movies and music on the Internet, among other aims. However, major Internet organizations -- such as Wikipedia, Reddit and Boing Boing -- claim the bills will hinder their operations and are ready ... PIPA and SOPA Blackout on January 18 PIPA and SOPA are two anti-piracy bills which are currently in the US Congress. Some popular websites will be gone for 24 hours–specifically on January 18–to protest against the said bills. But what are PIPA and SOPA anyway? PIPA stands for PROTECT IP Act (Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual [...] More Sites Going Dark Over SOPA and PIPA, But Not Twitter A number of high-profile sites, from Reddit to Wikipedia, have pledged to shut down on Jan. 18 in protest of SOPA and PIPA, but organizers said today that as many as 7,000 sites are planning to go dark at midnight. Wikipedia Blackout Brings SOPA/PIPA Issue to Forefront for Businesses They are calling it the day the Web goes on strike. The planned Jan. 18 blackout of the English version of Wikipedia (along with reddit and Boing Boing) has brought to a head the showdown between various industries and business groups in support of and opposed to the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the U.S. House of Representatives, and PROTECTIP (PIPA) in the U.S. Senate. Depending on ... PIPA, SOPA Explained, Sort Of PIPA , SOPA -- they're pretty much the same thing, right? Right. Sort of. How PIPA and SOPA Violate Free Speech, Innovation Principles Over the weekend, the Obama administration issued a potentially game-changing statement on the blacklist bills, saying it would oppose PIPA and SOPA as written, and drew an important line in the sand by emphasizing that it "will not support" any bill ... Wikipedia Also Going Dark Wednesday Over SOPA, PIPA Wikipedia has pledged to go dark this Wednesday for 24 hours in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA).
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