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18 Jan 2012, 5:04 pm by Colin O'Keefe
As could be expected on a day with all the protests, we had several insightful SOPA posts on the LexBlog Network today. [read post]
18 Jan 2012, 4:17 pm by INFORRM
The Washington Post succinctly breaks down the implications of the two bills here. [read post]
18 Jan 2012, 3:13 pm by Quinn Norton
(We think The Oatmeal is a popular webcomic, but with Wikipedia down, we’re not sure.) * The indispensable and sesquipedalian McSweeney’s went dark, suggested you protest SOPA, and gave a few handy facts to get you through a day without Wikipedia. [read post]
18 Jan 2012, 3:01 pm
In protest to anti-piracy legislation currently being considered by Congress, i.e., SOPA and PIPA, a number of Internet service providers, including Wikipedia, Mozilla, and Reddit, have gone dark today and replaced their home pages with warnings about the potential impact of the legislation. [read post]
18 Jan 2012, 2:41 pm by Doug Isenberg
Online protests quickly cut into Congressional support for online antipiracy measures as lawmakers abandoned and rethought their backing for legislation that pitted new media interests against some of the most powerful old-line commercial interests in Washington. [read post]
18 Jan 2012, 2:14 pm by editor
Image:  internet.jpg As many of you have probably noticed or heard by now, several high profile internet sites are "down" today in protest of the SOPA/PIPA bills that Congress is set to take up in the coming weeks. [read post]
18 Jan 2012, 1:46 pm by Daniel Corbett
Opponents of the legislation, led by large Internet companies, say its broad definitions could lead to censorship of online content and force some websites to shut down. [read post]
18 Jan 2012, 1:16 pm by Kevin Smith, J.D.
  There has been a lead article about open science in the New York Times, and the 24 hour shut down of Wikipedia in protest over one of these bills – the Stop Online Piracy Act — has made digital copyright a topic of national discussion. [read post]
18 Jan 2012, 12:36 pm by Kathleen Engel
 The effect boils down to continued field preemption of state consumer financial laws. [read post]
18 Jan 2012, 11:45 am by admin
Thousands of websites went dark today in protest of SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect IP Act) – two controversial anti-piracy bills currently passing through congress. [read post]
18 Jan 2012, 11:23 am by Danica Mathes
  Do you think temporarily disabling these websites was an effective way to protest these bills? [read post]
18 Jan 2012, 10:20 am by Ernie Svenson
" I'd tell you to look it up on Wikipedia, but it's down right now for a day of protest. [read post]
18 Jan 2012, 9:59 am by Jonathan Bailey
Opponents, however, feel that the legislation could be misused to shut down almost any website and censor free speech. 2: Supreme Court Backs Copyrights for Foreign Works Next up today, the U.S. [read post]
18 Jan 2012, 9:31 am by Evan Brown (@internetcases)
Three easy ways to protest SOPA and PIPA (TECH cocktail) Mark Zuckerberg’s statement against SOPA and PIPA App Makers Craft Code for Protesting SOPA (AllThingsD) How much would Facebook, Google or Twitter lose if they shut down for one day? [read post]
18 Jan 2012, 8:35 am
Zibart Websites including the English version of Wikipedia, Reddit and BoingBoing have gone dark for a period of twenty-four hours today, in protest of anti-piracy bills currently making their way through the U.S. [read post]
18 Jan 2012, 8:32 am by Isabel McArdle
The Government of the United States of America -v- O’Dwyer, Westminster Magistrates’ Court – Read judgment It seems appropriate, on the day when Wikipedia shut down for 24 hours to protest against US anti-piracy legislation, to talk about piracy (in the copyright sense) and what role human rights law has to play in the perpetual battle against it. [read post]
18 Jan 2012, 8:05 am by Scott Edwards
Breaking the Internet Until recently, SOPA would have allowed the US Attorney General authority to use DNS blocking—essentially allowing the U.S. government to redirect access to any site on the global Internet without a court hearing or trial, presumptively to shut down sites that facilitate pirating. [read post]
18 Jan 2012, 7:11 am by Danielle Citron
  So, too, Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) pushed back against websites planning to shut down today in protest of his bill. [read post]
18 Jan 2012, 5:57 am
And when the White House says “whoa”, you know there is likely a heckuva lot of pressure (political, economic, you name it) coming down against the proposed Act. [read post]