- UPDATE: Sen. Marco Rubio and Rep. Ben Quayle, co-sponsors of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA), have withdrawn their controversial bills. (Entertainment Weekly Online)
- After declaring a daylong blackout of some of the Webs most popular and influential sites to protest the proposed SOPA and PIPA antipiracy bills, including Wikipedia and Wired magazine, momentum has largely shifted away from the legislation. (Los Angeles Times)
- (CBS) - A coordinated effort by over 7,000 websites to blackout their pages for a day on Jan. 18 has given lawmakers plenty of food for thought. (CBS News)
- Mozilla and Reddit are censoring their own websites with black bars and blacked-out pages in protest of SOPA and PIPA, two online anti-piracy bills currently under consideration on Capitol Hill. (Los Angeles Times)
- In the first strike of its kind, thousands of popular sites such as Wikipedia, Reddit and Boing Boing shut down for up to 24 hours Wednesday to protest a pair of federal antipiracy bills that they said amounted to censorship of the Internet. (Los Angeles Times)
- So what are these bills exactly? The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is the House bill; Protect IP Act (PIPA) is its Senate sister. Both focus on foreign websites that pirate movies, music, and other materials from the U.S. (YAHOO!)
- The House of Representatives Stop Online Piracy Act and the Senates Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act have generated fierce opposition within the technology community. (msnbc.com)
- Who holds more power: media lobbyists, or Internet heavyweights? After today we may know the answer. (Slate)
- Many of those who verbally pummeled the bills in question—the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House, and the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) in the Senate—appeared to be beating a downed horse, if not a dead one. (PC Magazine)
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Sopa and pipa bills
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