Last Wednesday, the Internet may not have been the same Internet that you usually experience. Many of the websites that you visit on a daily basis, such as: Google, Wikipedia, and other content-related websites, changed their design or fully shut down to protest against a long-going controversy called SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act).
If you are unsure of what SOPA is, I have provided an elaborate description from its Wikipedia page below:
“The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) was a U.S. House bill to fight online trafficking in copyrighted intellectual property and counterfeit goods. Proposals include barring advertising networks and payment facilities from conducting business with allegedly infringing websites, barring search engines from linking to the sites, and requiring Internet service providers (ISP) to block access to the sites. The bill would also criminalize the streaming of such content, with a maximum penalty of five years in prison.”
The WebProNews writing team has been diligently investigating all angles of this past Wednesday’s events. I have provided a list of the mostly read SOPA-related articles pertaining to this past Wednesday’s blackout below:
- SOPA Blackout Set For January 18th: Here’s All The Info – Major sites participating, is it the right move?
- SOPA: Anonymous Lists Their Demands – Centers around copyright practices
- Google Protests SOPA With Blacked Out Logo – “End Piracy, Not Liberty”
- Going Dark For SOPA Blackout? Here Are Some Tips – Don’t let the protest hurt your site
- Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Speaks Out Against SOPA / PIPA – Even breaks Twitter silence to get point across
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