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Thursday, January 19, 2012

Protests against the bill SOPA and PIPA Get Bustling

After Wikipedia.org shut down its online services for 24 hours as a form of protest, Now Mozilla.org or Firefox browser will participate as well as a protest to the United Stated Senate it is currently brewing bill SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect IP Act).

If you notice, starting on Wednesday (18 / 1), the default view Mozilla Firefox and the site displays a black background with a logo that read "Stop Censorship". The same is also done by Reddit.com and Wordpress.com

Broadly speaking, the bill SOPA and PIPA is a form of U.S. government concerns the issue of piracy through the Internet. With it, the U.S. government could unilaterally block all forms of copyright infringement and trick them with applicable law.

However, there are so many people disagree with the application that will be done later. SOPA and PIPE would be missing the target by implementing regulations that could restrict the rights of Internet users in getting any information.

Protests against SOPA and PIPA has actually been going on since a few months ago. With the increasing close passage of time planned on January 24, the protest movement's supporters and anti-SOPA PIPA was echoed even louder.

Big names who had already been protested by writing an open letter to the senate and the U.S. government in opposing it include Google, Facebook, Twitter, Zynga, eBay, Youtube, Yahoo, AOL, and LinkedIn. The open-source developers also took a part, including OpenSUSE, Fedora, and LibreOffice. Countless thousands of sites and various circles of support for the bill to cancel the SOPA and PIPA.

Some sites attempt to provide an understanding and explanation of what SOPA and PIPA would do. They also describe the impact if the bill was passed and implemented. Simple, Mozilla and Reddit is one who does that. If you want to know more, visit the following link.



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3 comments:

  1. I think this is arbitrary from the U.S. government who feel that they are a super power country. maybe this is an act of liberalism that was out of the schools of liberalism itself. might say Java is keblinger

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  2. It is very difficult to say about piracy in internet world, may be you are right, what I wanna ask you, what is keblinger?

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  3. maybe keblinger is an action that is done with great stupidity in a conscious state.

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