SOPA, PIPA anti-online piracy bills halted by U.S. Congress after Wikipedia protest

U.S. lawmakers halted controversial anti-piracy legislation Friday, delivering a stunning victory for websites like Wikipedia that staged an unprecedented online protest this week to try and kill the bills.

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What is SOPA? / What is PIPA?

What is SOPA? The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA, H.R. 3261) is on the surface a bill that attempts to curb online piracy. Sadly, the proposed way it goes about doing this would devastate the online economy and the overall freedom of the web. It would particularly affect sites with heavy user generated content. Sites [...]

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Wikipedia, WordPress and Anonymous and Express Opposition to SOPA

Hacker group Anonymous has announced that it will stop all operations for twelve hours to oppose the passing of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) as a law in the US. Hot on the heels of Reddit’s take on SOPA, the controversial hacker group now wants to jump aboard a massive blackout on January 18 [...]

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