SOPA ‘Blackout Sites’ Include Google, Wikipedia, WordPress You know the protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) has gone mainstream when the headline of the Drudge Report on Wednesday morning reads, “Hands Off the Internet!” Numerous Internet companies engaged in a “blackout” protest Wednesday against two anti-piracy bills, SOPA and its counterpart in the…

Please call, email, snail mail and fax your US Representative and your two US Senators…Tell them: As your constituent, please oppose SOPA and PIPA. It will kill the Internet! Why? SOPA and PIPA would put the burden on website owners to police user-contributed material and call for the unnecessary blocking of entire sites. Small sites…

Overkill on Internet piracy ………………………………………………………………………… By Jennifer Rubin – Washington Post ……………………………………………………………………………………     Over the weekend, First Amendment impresario Floyd Abrams addressed two controversial Internet piracy bills, the Senate’s Protect IP Act (PIPA) and the House version, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). He argued that the bill, designed to stop Internet theft of intellectual property, has been…

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