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Websites go dark on Wed., Jan. 18th to protest antipiracy bills
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/01/17/BUQO1MQ77B.DTL&type=tech
Websites go dark to protest antipiracy bills
James Temple, Chronicle Columnist
January 17, 2012
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First on the slate today, Wikipedia, Reddit, Boing Boing, MoveOn, Mozilla, Stanford's Center for Internet and Society, and many other websites are dark for up to 24 hours in what's become a widespread protest to raise awareness of the twin antipiracy bills pending in Congress.
Online heavyweight Google said it will highlight its opposition to the Stop Online Piracy Act and its Senate counterpart, the PROTECT IP Act, in some manner on its home page. In addition, local tech groups like Hacks & Hackers and the Electronic Frontier Foundation are staging a noon protest at Civic Center Plaza, at which prominent angel investor Ron Conway will speak.
The bills aimed at online copyright infringement have sparked outrage throughout the tech industry. SOPA, in particular, undermines critical legal protections that foster online innovation while disregarding due process and free speech rights.
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January 18, 2012, 12:31:34 AM »
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/entertainmentnewsbuzz/2012/01/wikipedia-craigslist-other-sites-shut-down-in-sopa-blackout.html
Wikipedia, Craigslist, other sites go black in SOPA protest
January 17, 2012
Following through on their threats to shut down for a day over controversial proposed anti-piracy legislation, a coalition of websites including the hugely popular user-generated encyclopedia Wikipedia went black as midnight struck the East Coast.
Visitors to English-language pages on Wikipedia, regularly ranked as one of the five most popular sites on the Internet, with an estimated 2.7 billion monthly pageviews in the U.S., instead found only a headline stating "Imagine a World Without Free Knowledge." Stating that the proposed SOPA and PIPA anti-piracy bills "could fatally damage the free and open internet," the message said Wikipedia would be blacked out for 24 hours and asked visitors to contact their congressional representatives, providing a search box to look them up by ZIP code.
Other sites that shut down and displayed similar language included classified listings site Craigslist and technology blog BoingBoing, while a note on the social news website Reddit said it would begin its blackout at 8 a.m. Eastern time. Hundreds of other websites were scheduled to go dark, according to SOPAStrike.com.
Google, meanwhile, didn't shut down but blacked out the logo on its home page and featured a message that said "Tell Congress: Please don't censor the Web!"
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If you all want to let your lawmakers how you feel about SOPA:
http://sopastrike.com/strike
Info on SOPA:
http://mashable.com/2012/01/17/sopa-dangerous-opinion/
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Wow. I tried to get on earlier and I couldn't. For a minute I thought SM had gone dark.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/19/technology/web-protests-piracy-bill-and-2-key-senators-change-course.html
Web Protests Piracy Bills, and Senators Change Course
By JONATHAN WEISMAN
January 18, 2012
WASHINGTON — Online protests on Wednesday quickly cut into Congressional support for anti-Web piracy measures as lawmakers abandoned and rethought their backing for legislation that pitted new media interests against some of the most powerful old-line commercial interests in Washington.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/sopa-action-delayed/2012/01/20/gIQAFxYhDQ_story.html
SOPA action delayed in House until ‘wider consensus’
By Hayley Tsukayama
January 20, 2012
The main sponsor of a House bill targeting online piracy announced Friday that he will postpone further action on the measure that has triggered fierce protests, blackouts from Internet sites and some rethinking among lawmakers.
The action by Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Tex.) on the Stop Online Piracy Act came a couple of hours after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said that he would delay a cloture vote on a similar Senate bill, the Protect IP (Intellectual Property) Act.
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http://money.cnn.com/2012/01/20/technology/SOPA_PIPA_postponed/
SOPA and PIPA postponed indefinitely after protests
By Julianne Pepitone @CNNMoneyTech
January 20, 2012
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