In just a few hours, Wikipedia, Wordpress, Reddit and a bunch of other sites will black out for 24 hours hours in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act, the US bill currently in motion.
Not a lot of discussion on the GBB about these anti piracy laws with the potential to effect online laws around the world. Possibly.
F*&k it Ive typed out three long winded replies explaining my opinions (and hit shift+all backspace at the end, each one TLDR). Basically I think the SOPA bill is fucked (that was easier) and really like the idea of the blackout. The Wikipedia page on the "SOPA Initiative".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative The wikipedia page on SOPA;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act#cite_note-pcworld-3[/url]
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/244011/the_us_stop_online_piracy_act_a_primer.html"The originally proposed bill would allow the U.S. Department of Justice, as well as copyright holders, to seek court orders against websites accused of enabling or facilitating copyright infringement. Depending on who makes the request, the court order could include barring online advertising networks and payment facilitators from doing business with the allegedly infringing website, barring search engines from linking to such sites, and requiring Internet service providers to block access to such sites. The bill would make unauthorized streaming of copyrighted content a crime, with a maximum penalty of five years in prison for ten such infringements within six months. The bill also gives immunity to Internet services that voluntarily take action against websites dedicated to infringement, while making liable for damages any copyright holder who knowingly misrepresents that a website is dedicated to infringement."
