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Wikipedia Blackout: Jimmy Wales Announces Protest Of SOPA, PIPA On January 18 2

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Wikipedia has apparently joined the ranks of several high-profile websites that are planning a “blackout” on Wednesday, January 18, in protest of Congress’ proposed anti-piracy legislation. During the blackout period, many web pages will become unavailable and will likely be replaced with information about the protest.

Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales took to Twitter on Monday to announce that the English-language version of Wikipedia will go dark on Wednesday for 24 hours — from midnight EST on January 18 until midnight EST January 19. He noted in a later tweet that “Final details [are] under consideration but consensus seems to be for ‘full’ rather than ‘soft’ blackout!” More…

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Stopped They Must Be; On This All Depends | SOPA PIPA 2

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Just blogged today on Reddit’s blog:

The freedom, innovation, and economic opportunity that the Internet enables is in jeopardy. Congress is considering legislation that will dramatically change your Internet experience and put an end to reddit and many other sites you use everyday. Internet experts, organizations, companies, entrepreneurs, legal experts, journalists, and individuals have repeatedly expressed how dangerous this bill is. If we do nothing, Congress will likely pass the Protect IP Act (in the Senate) or the Stop Online Piracy Act (in the House), and then the President will probably sign it into law. There are powerful forces trying to censor the Internet, and a few months ago many people thought this legislation would surely pass. However, there’s a new hope that we can defeat this dangerous legislation. More…

GoDaddy Being Difficult to Those Transferring From Them 4

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Just last week, GoDaddy was on the list of supporters for SOPA.  After they started seeing their profits falling due to the large volume of clients transferring their domains and services, GoDaddy then rescinded their support.  However, the damage has been done, and their true colors are showing.

According to Namecheap (also promoting a “Move Your Domain Day“), a very popular domain and hosting company where a lot of “GoDaddy’ers” are transferring to, posted this just today: More…

SOPA for Dummies 10

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One awesome (and anonymous) person decided to put together a short but sweet Google Doc called “SOPA For Dummies” to help explain this bill is simplistic terms.

Here is the G Doc in it’s entirety:     More…

Companies in Support of SOPA Now Being Boycotted 9

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Should SOPA pass, my fellow-internet cohorts… our world will change.  Take this image I created… a scene from Pirates of the Caribbean where I masked in a Vaio and an HP laptop.  Should H.R. 3261 pass, then this would no longer be “legal.”  Even though I make NO monies from this little creation, my site could potentially be banned.  In fact, what I have created is in all actuality, free advertising!  Think about it….  All the product placement going on in movies and in TV shows… the thousands into millions of dollars spent by companies simply to have their logo or product shown at some point in time.  In fact, I think Disney, Vaio and HP should pay ME for the image I created just for this post. More…