SOPA Opera White House Shuts Down Proposed Online AntiPiracy Bill It's Baaaaaaaaack Lamar Smith Says Markup To Resume In February Musician Peter Gabriel Comes Out Against SOPA/PIPA; Website Will Go Dark & MPAA Brush Off Wikipedia Blackout As Just A Publicity Stunt The End of the Internet Major Media to Protest Stop Piracy Act protests tech world versus Hollywood Say No Reddit's Admirable but Google and Facebook Must Follow Study Confirms News Networks Owned By Supporters... Are Ignoring SOPA/PIPA Official Veto Petition Gets 25 000 Signature in Two Days Lawmakers seem intent on approving PIPA How Be Supporters Pretend Statement Means We Can Rush Through On Wednesday Bills WordPress Latest Tech Company Come Strongly Going Becomes Toxic Frantic Congress Test Runs Dropping DNS Blocking Provisions More And Infrastructure Players Coming Bad If you hate Big Government fight SOPA.

Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) Has Serious Repercussions for Passionate Sports Fans Did you miss that big play everyone's talking about? No problem, YouTube it. Well, if the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) passes, sports fans won't have that luxury anymore. That's because the bill, which aims to put an end to Internet piracy, would hold any website that features copyrighted material responsible for said material if the intellectual property owner elects to take action. In other ... 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. SOPA and PIPA: Just the Facts The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA) have been making headlines, but what are they, exactly? Here are the facts. STOP SOPA Code Turns Any Site Dark to Protest Stop Online Piracy Act [More from Mashable: The White House & SOPA: Reading Between the Lines] Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and PIPA Blackout on January 18 Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protec IP Act (PIPA) 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 [...] SOPA 'shelved' indefinitely, but Reddit's Jan. 18 blackout is still on, as PIPA fight continues A vote on the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) has been delayed indefinitely, but the fight against Internet censorship continues: Reddit.com will go forward with its site-wide blackout on Wednesday, January 18, to protest the Senate's Protect IP Act (PIPA), Digital Trends has confirmed. PIPA, a similar bill to SOPA, is scheduled to go up for a vote before the Senate on January 24. 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 ... 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. January 18 SOPA/PIPA blackout: A quick guide Starting at midnight Eastern Standard Time on Wednesday, January 18, all 3.8 million English-language articles of Wikipedia will go "black" for 24 hours, in protest of the "Stop Online Piracy Act" (SOPA) and the "PROTECT IP Act" (PIPA). Wikipedia will be joined by thousands of other sites, all of which will be blacked out for between 12 and 24 hours. In anticipation of the confusion this will ... SOPA Opera: White House Shuts Down Online Anti-Piracy Bill Rather than deliver an ultimatum to those on either side of the debate, the recent White House statement related to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and PROTECT IP Act of 2011 (PIPA) encourages the entertainment and technology industries to work together to find a solution. This call for a back-to-the-drawing-board approach to clamping down on Internet intellectual-property piracy while ...
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