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Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of freewheeling discussion site Reddit and a vocal critic of the two bills, has called for an Internet blackout on Wednesday.Wikipediahas confirmed it will participate along with other smaller sites.

A so-called “blackout” is yet another gimmick, albeit a dangerous one, designed to punish elected and administration officials who are working diligently to protect American jobs from foreign criminals. It is our hope that the

We have a compiled a list of five easy alternatives, to enable you access Wikipedia content on the day the world's largest encyclopaedia has gone dark.

Perhaps during the blackout, Internet users can look elsewhere for an accurate definition of online piracy.” The Protect IP Act is scheduled to come up for a cloture vote on Jan. 24; the House Judiciary committee will resume markup of the bill in

A so-called “blackout” is yet another gimmick, albeit a dangerous one, designed to punish elected and administration officials who are working diligently to protect American jobs from foreign criminals. It is our hope that the

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.

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

A new, simple piece of code will turn any site dark to protest, along with Wikipedia, Reddit and more, the Stop Online Piracy Act.

Thousands of websites have joined the blackout in protest against the SOPA bill, as the controversial legislation is put to a vote in the US Congress. Participants range from giants like Wikipedia and Craigslist to tiny individual

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

Instead of being able to see these actions as a referendum on the way SOPA attempts to prevent piracy, Dodd can only see corporate goons skulking in the shadows. We're not sure where this idea that Google makes its money on the backs of piracy came

STOP SOPA. Today there will be no posts on this blog in solidarity with many other sites who are taking a stand, such as Boing, Boing, Wikipedia.org and google.com. The reason for this internet black out is in response to the

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.

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

The White House just released a statement commenting on the pending SOPA and PIPA anti-piracy bills in congress. While the Obama Administration sides with the opposition by saying that free-speech should be protected,

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 him for taking a stand on this issue. I've been a supporter of Mark's for many years and his

Before you get too excited, remember that the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA), the extremely similar Senate version of SOPA, is still steaming forward, and has to be stopped. But you can get a little excited, as this is pretty goddamned great news.

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

White House rejects SOPA and PIPA. By Cory Doctorow at 7:27 pm Saturday, Jan 14. Ranking members of the Obama administration have published a memo condemning the approach taken in SOPA and PIPA, the punishing, pending