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SOPA Protest Day: the largest digital protest ever (infographic)
On January 18th, it was hard to miss what was the largest (digital) protest in world’s history as millions of people, and the largest internet companies stood up against the proposes SOPA and PIPA laws (watch the 5mn “what is SOPA” video here). If you don’t know what SOPA and PIPA are, both are basically law proposals that would end up making it impossible to have user-generated content sites and services like YouTube, WordPress.com, Disqus, or even Ubergizmo because if one user or commenter uploads a copyrighted image, or content, the whole site could be taken down. Today, websites are required to remove that content and most are actively participating in the fight against piracy. To date, both laws have been put on hold, but not eliminated.
FrugalDad.com has compiled some numbers in the nice infographic below. It is self-explanatory and definitely worth a look. Among the interesting numbers, Congress got 400,000 calls, 10M people have signed petitions against SOPA and PIPA, and 3M emails were sent to politicians backing the proposal. More importantly, this pushed other Senators to jump in and to issue statements against the bill.
The “The Day the Internet Stood Still” sounds great, although it’s also fair to say that this is a bit of an exaggeration. The event was nonetheless a great success, and it is comforting to see that so many people have expressed their opinions on this important subject.
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What’s up next? ~ Didn’t #SOPA take a look, you’ll hate #ACTA. Please, sign & share on the @accessnow petition http://t.co/Ac1xF1Mk #StopACTA
OMG OMG OMG, this is one of those seminal (no, not in that way) momentsin one’s interwebz life,ever.
I just got my first take down notice that the domain name www.megaupload.com has been seized and taken down pursuant to blah legalese blah blah…(see further details below).
#SOPA be damned they don’t even need, it’s already underway pursuant to blah legalese blah blah…
~ gosh darn it :
FOOTNOTE! I was uploading Nietzsche .pdfs, which is outside of the copyright purview, being over 150 years old.
SOPA and the The Joker‘ster:
“Nobody panics when things go “according to plan.” Even if the plan is horrifying! If, tomorrow, I tell the press that, like, a *child being raped*, or truckload of *palestinians citizens* gets blown up, nobody panics, because it’s all “part of the plan”. But when I say that *Wikipedia and Reddit* will black out, well then EVERYONE LOSES THEIR MINDS!
…Introduce a little anarchy. Upset the established order, *SOPA and PIPA*, and everything becomes chaos. I’m an agent of chaos. Oh, and you know the thing about chaos? It’s fair! ”
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WOW. okay now hat sounds pretty serious, can you give me short the version congressional bills are always so long winded.
Very true, more gassy than a methane plant. Well this bill would establish a system for taking down websites that the Department of Justice determines to be dedicated to copyright infringement. This DoJ or the copyright owner would be able to commence legal action against anything they deem to have “only limited purpose or use other than infringement. “ and the DoJ would then have the legal authourity to demand that search engines, social networking sites and domain services block access to the targeted site. It would make unauthorized web streaming and proliferation of any copyrighted content a felony with possible penalty up to five years in prison. The bills combines tow separate senate bills into — S.968 and S.978 — one big House bill.
Okay now the long version, I’m a masochist?
The full text of HR 3261 SOPA can be found after the jump *click*.
