[color=#008000][i]SOPA/PIPA stands for Stop Online Piracy Act/ Protect IP Act. At first glance, this seems pretty kosher. After all Piracy is a crime in many countries. However what it is really is a thinly veiled excuse at internet censorship. You may ask: Why is this bad? and Why should I stand against it?[/i][/color]

[color=#008000][i]Well, The U.S Congress wants to pass a bill that will allow the U.S government to shut down any website accused of copyright infringement. This includes, barring of online advertising, filesharing, barring of payment facilitors and search engines servicing and linking accused websites. This Bill would make streaming copyrighted content a crime, with a maximum penalty of five (5) years in prison. So downloading a Michael Jackson song, would land you more prison time than his doctor who killed him. [/i][/color]

[color=#008000][i]You like watching vids on youtube? Well, if this Bill is passed, say good bye to that. Infact, say bye-bye to MD due to the music played on certain locations like Winds Sanctuary. It also means that Mur is responsible for the ENTIRE content of his game, including the things we say. [/i][/color]

[color="#008000"][i]Same applies for Bloggers and tweeters. [/i][/color]

[color=#008000][i]People who are proponents are saying that this bill would protect intellectual property. Opponents are saying that it goes against the First ammendment, violates the internet, and censor free speech on the internet. Wiki-leaks and other whistle-blowing websites will be shut down. Over 7000 websites went "black" in protest against this bill, which was led by Wikipedia, Reddit, Wired.com, Yahoo! and Google. [/i][/color]

[color=#008000][i]Wanna do something? Please vote against it [/i][/color]
[i][color=#008000][url="http://www.avaaz.org/en/save_the_internet_action_center_b/?fBxbmcb&pv=184"]http://www.avaaz.org...?fBxbmcb&pv=184[/url][/color][/i]
[color=#0000ff][i][url="http://sopastrike.com/"]http://sopastrike.com/[/url][/i][/color]

[i]This Bill was temporarily shelved, but it needs to be burnt!! If you want more information I've listed a few websites below.[/i]

[color=#008000][i]The full text for Sopa:[/i][/color]
[color=#008000][i][url="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:H.R.3261"]http://thomas.loc.go...z?c112:H.R.3261[/url][/i][/color][color=#008000][i][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]:[/font][/i][/color]

[color=#008000][i][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The Full text for Pipa:[/font][/i][/color]
[i][url="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:S.968"][color=#0000ff]http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:S.968[/color][/url][/i][color=#0000ff][i][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]:[/font][/i][/color]

[color=#008000][i]Other sites:[/i][/color]
[color=#008000][i][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act"]ht[/url][/i][/color][color=#0000ff][i][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act"]tp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act[/url][/i][/color]
[i][url="http://www.naturalnews.com/034694_SOPA_PIPA_internet_censorship.html"][color=#0000ff]http://www.naturalnews.com/034694_SOPA_PIPA_internet_censorship.html[/color][/url][/i]
[color=#0000ff][i][url="http://www.dailygamecock.com/viewpoints/item/3187-sopa-pipa-still-considered-despite-blackout"]http://www.dailygame...espite-blackout[/url][/i][/color]
[color=#0000ff][i][url="http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/business-it/father-of-the-web-backs-sopa-protests-20120119-1q7rm.html"]http://www.smh.com.a...0119-1q7rm.html[/url][/i][/color]
[i][color=#0000ff][url="http://money.cnn.com/2011/12/22/technology/sopa_vote/index.htm"]http://money.cnn.com..._vote/index.htm[/url][/color][/i]
[i][url="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:S.968"]http://thomas.loc.go...ry/z?c112:S.968[/url][color=#333333][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]:[/font][/color][/i]

[color=#696969][i]edited for typos[/i][/color]

Edited January 19, 201214 yr by Sharazhad

[url="http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/01/19/anonymous-hackers-claims-attack-on-doj-universal-music-and-riaa-after-megaupload-takedown/"]http://www.forbes.co...pload-takedown/[/url]

This news should be incredibly amusing to the people who oppose this bill. It's amazing. fbi.gov has been taken down by a hacker group called 'Anonymous' in retaliation to the removal of MegaUploads.com and the arrest of it's 4 founding members.

Edited January 20, 201214 yr by Amoran Kalamanira Kol

aw... i expected somethin more pro like from them than ddos

All they ever do is ddos. They can't do anything else but ddoses.