Wikipedia’s community calls for anti-SOPA blackout January 18

[Concerned User]

http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/01/16...ut-january-18/

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/n...-wednesday.ars


Too bad Google is not joining this "blackout", I'd say that it would be even more effective, 'cause for most people Google = internet

[Concerned User]

Bump...Complete list of anti sopa participants here:

http://www.sopastrike.com/

Looks like Google will come up with something as will Mozilla.

Wikipedia English can be accessed but when you try to search for something, this is what happens:



and their other language pages have this banner.

[maplichen]

Mobile wikipedia is still running normally.

[wdhpr]

I have sympathy for recording artist and the likes. The Internet has enabled the masses to suck the life blood from their creativity and hard work. Bootlegging of music and movies runs rampant in many countries. I watched a documentary showing how a guy recorded movies with a camcorder and made more money than a drug dealer. SOPA was supposed to stop the pirating of music and movies and to a certain degree it was warranted. But the recording of music off the radio with cassette tapes or the recording of TV and movies with VCR's have been going on for a longtime. But now SOPA could cause grandma to be heavily fined for recording her favorite oldie moldies for her own personal use. The industries have the money and muscle to devastate a family because 13 year old Susie downloaded all her favorite stuff (stuff = todays music). People have to break the law to make a backup copy of their Movies they paid good money for. DVDs wear out and get scratched so are we supposed to pay twice?

Sopa has become the giant green monster created by lobbyist and our corrupted politicians so that big government can stomp on its own citizens.

Sorry got a lil wordie on this one

[4goTTen21]

Originally Posted by wdhpr

I have sympathy for recording artist and the likes. The Internet has enabled the masses to suck the life blood from their creativity and hard work. Bootlegging of music and movies runs rampant in many countries. I watched a documentary showing how a guy recorded movies with a camcorder and made more money than a drug dealer. SOPA was supposed to stop the pirating of music and movies and to a certain degree it was warranted. But the recording of music off the radio with cassette tapes or the recording of TV and movies with VCR's have been going on for a longtime. But now SOPA could cause grandma to be heavily fined for recording her favorite oldie moldies for her own personal use. The industries have the money and muscle to devastate a family because 13 year old Susie downloaded all her favorite stuff (stuff = todays music). People have to break the law to make a backup copy of their Movies they paid good money for. DVDs wear out and get scratched so are we supposed to pay twice?

Sopa has become the giant green monster created by lobbyist and our corrupted politicians so that big government can stomp on its own citizens.

Sorry got a lil wordie on this one

It's a good and clear perspective, well done. I wanna add, many of worldwide ISP go through USA servers, so this law has global scope. If S.O.P.A. is applied, not only digital media content will be "protected" but entire content flow could be controlled, managed, blocked and changed without any consent. A transparent law which research for user's right protection, can't never destroy anyone rights to protects other people interest. S.O.P.A. not only can't guarantee protect your copyright but instead it do guarantees will restrict you freedom of expression and the Internet as we know it.

[wdhpr]

The supposed S.O.P.A. legislation has been withdrawn for further review an consensus. 9 senate law makers who co-sponsored the bill have withdrawn their support.

Congratulations to Wikipedia and others for their show of solidarity in protesting this monstrosity.

[Anupam]

Yes, congratulations to Wikipedia and other such sites, who showed their protest. Its because of this only, that the bills have been taken back.

[hnorton]

Yup thanks for Hacktivist and Protesters entire Globe..

mashable.com/2012/01/20/sopa-is-dead-smith-pulls-bill/

[J_L]

Unfortunately, it's not over.

http://www.salon.com/2012/01/21/two_...ure/singleton/

[4goTTen21]

True. Also no one is talking about A.C.T.A. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Co...rade_Agreement

http://www.webpronews.com/acta-european-union-2012-01

A.C.T.A. is even worst than S.O.P.A.