SOPA/PIPA How Far We've Come; We Need To Go Protect IP Act Breaks the Internet Why Is NBCUniversal Threatening Report Commenters They Disagree With Their Employers It's Official Wikipedia Dark On Wednesday Send A Sympathy Card Over The Death Of Your Senator Supporters Pretend White House Statement Means Can Rush Through Debate over piracy legislation heats up Lies NBCUniversal's Rick Cotton About Newsy Now January 17 Study Confirms News Networks Owned By SOPA Supporters... Are Ignoring List Censoring Countries MPAA Thinks Provide Good Example For US Cato Institute Digs Into MPAA's Own Research Show That Wouldn't Save Single Net Job Harry Reid Moves Approve PROTECT And Begin Rupert Murdoch Lashes Out Bizarrely Against Asking Congress Not Break Al Gore Comes Approach In Response Online Petition Lawmakers seem intent on approving PIPA Cable Finally Realizing Bad Hollywood Star Ashton Kutcher Says 'SOPA Problem Solution' Law Firms Removing Name From Supporters' List; 'Support' Crumbling

Where Do SOPA & PIPA Stand Now? Over the weekend, there was a maelstrom of activity surrounding the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA). With the U.S. House of Representatives reconvening today and the Senate following next week, now is a good time to catch a collective breath and figure out the status of the two bills. 5 Things to Know About the SOPA, PIPA Protest Wikipedia will initiate a blackout on Wednesday, Jan. 18, in protest of the anti-piracy bills SOPA and PIPA. SOPA and PIPA are two Congressional bills meant to halt the illegal copying and sharing of movies and music on the Internet, among other aims. However, major Internet organizations -- such as Wikipedia, Reddit and Boing Boing -- claim the bills will hinder their operations and are ready ... Twitter will not join Jan. 18 SOPA/PIPA blackout — good! An increasing number of popular websites will go "black" tomorrow, in protest of the "Stop Online Piracy Act" (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA), the sibling anti-piracy bills currently in Congress. But Twitter will not be one of them. SOPA vs. PIPA: Anti-piracy bills, uproar explained If you've been paying attention to the increasingly heated debate over the "Stop Online Piracy Act" (SOPA), you may have noticed a significant spike in today's news about the "Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act of 2011," or PROTECT IP Act (PIPA, for short). Newsletters and blog posts have flooded in, with the declaration that "PIPA is the ... PIPA and SOPA Blackout on January 18 PIPA and SOPA are two anti-piracy bills which are currently in the US Congress. Some popular websites will be gone for 24 hours–specifically on January 18–to protest against the said bills. But what are PIPA and SOPA anyway? PIPA stands for PROTECT IP Act (Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual [...] More Sites Going Dark Over SOPA and PIPA, But Not Twitter A number of high-profile sites, from Reddit to Wikipedia, have pledged to shut down on Jan. 18 in protest of SOPA and PIPA, but organizers said today that as many as 7,000 sites are planning to go dark at midnight. Wikipedia Blackout Brings SOPA/PIPA Issue to Forefront for Businesses They are calling it the day the Web goes on strike. The planned Jan. 18 blackout of the English version of Wikipedia (along with reddit and Boing Boing) has brought to a head the showdown between various industries and business groups in support of and opposed to the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the U.S. House of Representatives, and PROTECTIP (PIPA) in the U.S. Senate. Depending on ... Wikipedia Also Going Dark Wednesday Over SOPA, PIPA Wikipedia has pledged to go dark this Wednesday for 24 hours in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA). Wikipedia to blackout all 3,847,673 English-language pages to protest PIPA Wikipedia is going black on Wednesday, January 18, to help fight the contentious Protect IP Act (PIPA), which is set to go for a vote before the Senate on January 24. The move, first reported by Neal Mann, digital news editor at Sky News, was confirmed by Jimmy Wales, co-founder of the far-reaching online encyclopedia, on Twitter. Wales says the blackout was a "community decision." Wikipedia Blackout January 18: 5 Things to Know About the SOPA, PIPA Protest Wikipedia will initiate a blackout on Wednesday, Jan. 18, in protest of the anti-piracy bills SOPA and PIPA. SOPA and PIPA are two Congressional bills meant to halt the illegal copying and sharing of movies and music on the Internet. However, major Internet organizations- such as Wikipedia, Reddit and Boing Boing - claim the bills will hinder their operations and they are ready to protest.
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