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NY Tech Meetup, a community comprised of more than 19000 technology enthusiasts, is planning a large rally for Wednesday afternoon to protest the anti-piracy legislation proposed by SOPA and PIPA. The rally will take place outside the midtown offices

Google on Tuesday announced it would make an unprecedented change to its homepage for American users on Wednesday, January 18, in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA), the

The anti-SOPA and PIPA demonstrations don't stop with site-wide blackouts planned for Wednesday by a number of web giants. People also have plans to meet up in real life and take the protest to the streets in cities such as

Supporters of the pending PIPA/SOPA anti-piracy bills often use The Pirate Bay as a prime example of a website that can be taken out under the new legislation. But is that really the case? The Pirate Bay team has been silent on the issue, until now.

The “knowledge blackout” is aimed at protecting the Internet – and the website's very existence – from online censorship, which many are equating to a complete disregard of due process.

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