Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Wikipedia Blackout Protest Has Plenty Of Company SOPA Opera White House Shuts Down Proposed Online AntiPiracy Bill Google Goes Big With Its SOPA/PIPA Protests; Blacks Out Logo It's Baaaaaaaaack Lamar Smith Says Markup To Resume In February & MPAA Brush Off As Just A Publicity Stunt Musician Peter Gabriel Comes Against SOPA/PIPA; Website Will Go Dark The End of the Internet Stop it'll destroy our internet Major Media to Piracy Act Say No Reddit's Admirable but and Facebook Must Follow Study Confirms News Networks Owned By Supporters... Are Ignoring Official Veto Petition Gets 25 000 Signature in Two Days Lawmakers seem intent on approving PIPA How Be protests tech world versus Hollywood WordPress Latest Tech Come Strongly Supporters Pretend Statement Means We Can Rush Through Becomes Toxic Frantic Congress Test Runs Dropping DNS Blocking Provisions On Wednesday Bills

SOPA and PIPA: Just the Facts The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA) have been making headlines, but what are they, exactly? Here are the facts. 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. Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) Has Serious Repercussions for Passionate Sports Fans Did you miss that big play everyone's talking about? No problem, YouTube it. Well, if the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) passes, sports fans won't have that luxury anymore. That's because the bill, which aims to put an end to Internet piracy, would hold any website that features copyrighted material responsible for said material if the intellectual property owner elects to take action. In other ... Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and PIPA Blackout on January 18 Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protec IP Act (PIPA) 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 [...] STOP SOPA Code Turns Any Site Dark to Protest Stop Online Piracy Act [More from Mashable: The White House & SOPA: Reading Between the Lines] January 18 SOPA/PIPA blackout: A quick guide Starting at midnight Eastern Standard Time on Wednesday, January 18, all 3.8 million English-language articles of Wikipedia will go "black" for 24 hours, in protest of the "Stop Online Piracy Act" (SOPA) and the "PROTECT IP Act" (PIPA). Wikipedia will be joined by thousands of other sites, all of which will be blacked out for between 12 and 24 hours. In anticipation of the confusion this will ... 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. SOPA 'shelved' indefinitely, but Reddit's Jan. 18 blackout is still on, as PIPA fight continues A vote on the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) has been delayed indefinitely, but the fight against Internet censorship continues: Reddit.com will go forward with its site-wide blackout on Wednesday, January 18, to protest the Senate's Protect IP Act (PIPA), Digital Trends has confirmed. PIPA, a similar bill to SOPA, is scheduled to go up for a vote before the Senate on January 24. 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 ... Protesting SOPA: How to Make Your Voice Heard This week, "call your Congressperson" is not just a cliché. It's one of the most important things you can do to make your voice heard. As Ars readers know, Wikipedia, reddit, Craiglist, and others are blacking out their sites today in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA), antipiracy [...]
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References:
http://www.deadline.com/2012/01/wikipedia-blackout-pipa-sopa-protest-google/
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=sopa-opera-white-house
http://www.thecommentator.com/article/814/stop_sopa_it_ll_destroy_our_internet
http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/28869388/0/alternet~Major-Media-Blackout-to-Protest-the-Stop-Online-Piracy-Act-SOPA
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120110/17470317370/wordpress-latest-tech-company-to-come-out-strongly-against-sopapipa.shtml
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120116/02043417413/sopapipa-supporters-pretend-white-house-statement-means-we-can-rush-through-sopapipa.shtml
http://pixelhat.net/

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