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By Maura Judkis SOPA blackout day is a dark day — literally. With a black bar across Google's logo and other sites turning their robust user-driven sites into a single black page. One team, though, avoided donning black, and chose instead to sing out

The Internet's largest and most popular general reference has gone dark. Wikipedia has joined a protest against something it believes is even darker: passage of the Stop Online Piracy and Protect Intellectual Property Acts.

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

Rubio: On second thought, SOPA/PIPA's a bad idea.

The Internet's largest and most popular general reference has gone dark. Wikipedia has joined a protest against something it believes is even darker: passage of the Stop Online Piracy and Protect Intellectual Property Acts.

Wednesday is the official day of protest over the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) bill and a growing number of Web sites will participate. But gaming site RedstoneHost couldn't wait. It started the party by "blacking out" its Web page Tuesday and

Vox Media is officially opposed to SOPA. The bill as drafted is overly broad, vaguely worded, and gives rise to a number of significant concerns: Serious constitutional issues in regards to due process and seizure of property.

Vox Media is officially opposed to SOPA. The bill as drafted is overly broad, vaguely worded, and gives rise to a number of significant concerns: Serious constitutional issues in regards to due process and seizure of property.

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These sites have "blacked out" today in protest of Stop online privacy act (SOPA). It makes it just a little bit easier to imagine what the web could look like if some of the measures from the proposed SOPA bill were to become law.

These sites have "blacked out" today in protest of Stop online privacy act (SOPA). It makes it just a little bit easier to imagine what the web could look like if some of the measures from the proposed SOPA bill were to become law.

By Nilay Patel on January 18, 2012 09:18 am 0Comments It's a day of protest across the internet today, as Wikipedia, Google, Reddit, and others have all gone black to voice opposition to the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA.

The nuclear bomb he's talking about is the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) to eliminate illegal copying of music, movies and writings that can easily be copied and distributed on the Internet without payment to the creator. "If we don't have many choices

Links 1/18/12, Stop SOPA Day. Lots of Internet protests planned, and we may get our tech act together to participate (I don't fool with the site plumbing but my tech guy is on the case). Looking at a partial day shutdown during

By willDate: 01-16-2012 Views: SOPA, or Stop Online Piracy Act and PIPA, the Protect IP Act are bills that attempts to counter online piracy. It's supposed to fight against websites outside US who contain pirtated movies, songs, video games,

January 18th is also the day the internet—or parts of it—are going dark to protest SOPA and PIPA, the House and Senate's internet-killing anti-piracy bills. Though SOPA has been shelved and the White House has said it won't sign either bill,

By willDate: 01-16-2012 Views: SOPA, or Stop Online Piracy Act and PIPA, the Protect IP Act are bills that attempts to counter online piracy. It's supposed to fight against websites outside US who contain pirtated movies, songs, video games,

That's because the popular crowd-sourced online encyclopedia is participating in an "Internet blackout" in protest of two controversial anti-piracy bills: The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and its Senate companion, the Protect IP Act (PIPA).

At this point, SOPA needs no introduction. But if you've been diligently ignoring it up until this point, good luck getting through January 18th.

It's been a whirlwind few days as I've been doing my best to beat my internet drums to get people to pay attention to internet censorship law SOPA, and how it will affect everyone, and so has the rest of the web. This week Reddit announced a blackout

and reddit prepare for a Wednesday blackout to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act and its Senate cousin the Protect IP Act, many smaller sites are also debating whether or not they want to participate in what is being called “SOPA Blackout Day.

With RedstoneHost as an example, it's unclear how much any of these participants will do in protest, beyond posting anti-SOPA rants or petitions. Twitter's CEO Dick Costolo is having none of it. He called the blackouts silly, according to a story in

The online blackout protests are rankling the Motion Picture Association of America, a lobbying group for the five biggest American film studios, which has lost significant support for its favorite bill in Washington over the past few months.

Google has some advice for anyone who would like to black out their site to protest the SOPA/PIPA/OPEN legislation, while ensuring that doing so doesn't harm their Google search rank or indexed content.

Tepp noted that industry is now "at a place where a provision that has generated the most consternation, the most uproar" has been removed from SOPA and PIPA. "And what we're left with is a very narrow, carefully tailored, narrowly targeted bill that

Tepp noted that industry is now "at a place where a provision that has generated the most consternation, the most uproar" has been removed from SOPA and PIPA. "And what we're left with is a very narrow, carefully tailored, narrowly targeted bill that

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

18, the English version of Wikipedia will go down for 24-hours to protest the US anti-piracy laws – Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA). FYI, that's midnight tonight. Here's everything you need to know to prepare for tomorrow's

Tepp noted that industry is now "at a place where a provision that has generated the most consternation, the most uproar" has been removed from SOPA and PIPA. "And what we're left with is a very narrow, carefully tailored, narrowly targeted bill that

On top of that, the White House responded to a pair of anti-SOPA and anti-PIPA petitions and came out against DNS blocking as well. With all that and SOPA on the shelf until the nerds can come in and a consensus is

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

The English-language version of Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, will be shut down for 24 hours in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act and PIPA, the Protect Intellectual Property Act, now working their way through

As part of a sustained effort against (the recently-shelved) SOPA and (still-threatening) PIPA bills before Congress and the Senate, respectively, Wikipedia has.

It is joining the Anti-SOPA/PIPA movement by participating in Wednesday January 18th's website access blackout. NEW YORK, Jan 17 – Shadowville.com, a well known provider of music instrumentals for free and for purchase, announced today that it will be

DHARAMSHALA, January 17: Thousands of Tibetans from around the Golok region of eastern Tibet attended the funeral of Sonam Wangyal Sopa Rinpoche on Sunday morning. Sopa Rinpoche, a respected spiritual figure in his early forties passed away on the spot

There is a list on the Sopa Strike web site that names them all. However, some high profile web sites have not yet taken up the cause and these are the subjects of the bets being taken. Paddy Power said, "With so many websites potentially affected by

What is this all about: Help Stop SOPA/PIPA Turn off your website on January 18th for 12 hours. Simple and fast solution for turn the website off; use the Plugin WP Maintenance Mode, original for the activation of the

SOPA and PROTECT-IP are only the latest attempts, and even if the fuss we all make scares them away, mark my words, something similar will be back. First, let's be aware that market forces can be a bitch if you're on the wrong end of them.

What is this all about: Help Stop SOPA/PIPA Turn off your website on January 18th for 12 hours. Simple and fast solution for turn the website off; use the Plugin WP Maintenance Mode, original for the activation of the

searches on the Internet Tuesday include Wikipedia on news the online encyclopedia will shut down its English-language Web site for 24 hours to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act. Wikipedia, which said its blackout will go into effect Wednesday,

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"An 'Internet blackout' would obviously be both drastic and unprecedented," NetCoalition said in a statement. "We hope that the Senate will cancel its scheduled vote on PIPA so that we can get back to working with members on how to address the concerns

Wikipedia to join Reddit blackout to protest SOPA, PIPA | 'Student warning! Do your homework early'

A number of websites are (or were) planning to “go black” this week while the US Congress discusses issues related to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA). The website blackouts are part of a larger social media effort

On Saturday, Colorado Senator Mark Udall publicly opposed PIPA. I've been talking to Mark and his team for about a month about this and I'm incredibly proud of.

House Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) said early Saturday morning that Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) promised him the House will not vote on the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) unless there is

House Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) said early Saturday morning that Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) promised him the House will not vote on the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) unless there is

Chris Hayes, over on MSNBC, decided to be the first to seriously break the mainstream cable news' boycott over SOPA/PIPA with a big debate on the bill — mainly between NBCUniversal's top lawyer, Rick Cotton, and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian.