Lamar Smith & MPAA Brush Off Wikipedia Blackout As Just A Publicity Stunt Major Media to Protest the Stop Online Piracy Act Website protests It's tech world versus Hollywood Reddit's SOPA Admirable but Google and Facebook Must Follow Hackers Join Fight Against blackout Why even supporters question antiSOPA move Going Dark Wednesday Newsy Now January 17 Gains Momentum as Joins Fray leads online against What We're Doing On This PIPA/SOPA Day Of Keeping You Involved Has Plenty Company Leave Alooooooooone!!!! go on home page Time To Freak Out College Kids Will Be Blacked Tomorrow An UK PC Gaming Site Rock Paper Shotgun By How use during join Wednesday's protest Jimmy Wales In Favor Community Decide access its

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 ... SOPA Blackout List: Google and Wikipedia Lead Charge Against Bill SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act working its way through the U.S. Congress, has inspired an online backlash punctuated by Wikipedia, Reddit, BoingBoing and others to start a blackout protest beginning tonight at midnight. SOPA Blackout: Google Doesn't Join, But Gives Support Don't worry, Google will not join the SOPA Blackout of Reddit and Wikipedia (which is already devastating enough for users who heavily rely on these sites). SOPA Blackout List: On Jan. 18, Google, Wikipedia, Reddit and Other Websites Will Protest Controversial Bill The SOPA blackout list has grown to include some of the world's biggest web companies, including even Google, which will not go dark (what would we do?) but announced today that it will include a link on its homepage tomorrow explaining its opposition to the Stop Online Piracy Act. Twitter will not join Jan. 18 SOPA/PIPA blackout — good! Twitter's Dick Costolo says the micro-blogging platform will not join in the January 18 blackout protest against the "Stop Online Piracy Act" (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA). Activists were outraged, but they should be counting their lucky stars. Wikipedia leads online blackout against SOPA Wikipedia and a host of other internet companies companies blacked out their websites in one way or the other early this morning in protest against controversial legislation in the US. Will your website go dark to protest SOPA? Jan. 18, 2012 is designated SOPA blackout day, with prominent websites planning to go dark in protest of two bills working through Congress -- Stop Online Piracy Act and PROTECT IP Act (PIPA). If you've got a big school project due Thursday and plan on using Wikipedia, get your research done today. The community-based encyclopedia plans to go dark tomorrow, and it's not alone. The proposed ... Analysis: Wikipedia's SOPA blackout is the opposite of stupidity Wikipedia has announced it would temporarily shut down today, and it did. This blackout is probably the first in the history of the Internet. To come from a website which showed us the power of Internet, this event is extremely important. Wikipedia's blackout is to protest SOPA, an anti-internet piracy bill which is draconian and 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 '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.
Key Words: sopa blackout

References:
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120117/13254717438/lamar-smith-mpaa-brush-off-wikipedia-blackout-as-just-publicity-stunt.shtml
http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/28869388/0/alternet~Major-Media-Blackout-to-Protest-the-Stop-Online-Piracy-Act-SOPA
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newsy-allvideos/~3/U2j7abFKnHQ/wikipedia-going-dark-wednesday-to-protest-sopa
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newsy-allvideos/~3/3UWibfrRWCA/newsy-now-january-17-1630-gmt
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120117/19050017443/what-were-doing-this-pipasopa-day-protest-keeping-you-involved.shtml
http://www.deadline.com/2012/01/wikipedia-blackout-pipa-sopa-protest-google/
http://www.cnet.com.au/google-to-go-anti-sopa-on-home-page-339329884.htm?feed=rss
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bossiprss/~3/eTpUCaiIWDM/
http://pixelhat.net/