Wednesday 18 January 2012

wikileaks protests SOPA act


 List of Sites Planning SOPA Protests Continues to Grow

Even although President Obama says he doesn’t like the Stop Online Piracy Act because it is currently written and as this kind of wouldn’t sign it, anti-SOPA protests are heading to go on as planned tomorrow.
The plan is simple: Sites participating during the protest will go dark for ones day or take in some other action. Wikipedia, for example, will black out the English-language portions of its website for 24 hours. The move will probably shut out some 10 million users during the course from the day.
Politico pegs the estimated quantity of websites that will be affected in some way by the protest at 7,000.
Among the websites participating is wikileaks, but others, too:
Google will post a link on its house document to a document explaining its opposition towards the act.

Mozilla,com, house from the well-liked Web browser Firefox, will go dark will do two things, see the update below.
Reddit, the social news website owned by Advance Publications, will go dark.
WordPress.org will go dark.
TwitPic, the well-liked website exactly where Twitter users share photographs, will go dark.
MoveOn.org, the liberal-leaning political site, will go dark.
The Cheezburger network, for instance websites like The Daily What and Fail Blog, are going to be dark.
BoingBoing.net are going to be dark.
Several gaming companies, for instance Minecraft.net, Riot Games, Epic Games, 38 Studios and Red 5 Studios, are going to be dark.
Update: Mozilla just sent a statement outlining what it is going to do for ones protest: It will redirect site visitors during the primary Mozilla.org and Mozilla.com English websites to an action document for 12 hours on Wednesday, January 18th from 8 AM to 8 PM Eastern Time. It will also make the default Firefox start document black so how the tens of millions of Firefox users will see a black document having a call to action message rather than the traditional white document from the Firefox logo.
Since the list is in flux, Irish bookmakers saw a chance to acquire into the act by accepting bets regarding which websites will go down for ones day and which ones won’t.
Wikileaks was the well-known at 5-to-1 odds that it would join the protest. Myspace, the once mighty social network, was running a close second at 7 to 1, although Flickr, the Yahoo-owned photo sharing site, was at 8 to 1. Here’s a list of additional bets that Paddy Power was accepting:
14/1 YouTube
40/1 Amazon
50/1 Yahoo!
66/1 Facebook
66/1 TMZ
66/1 IMDb
80/1 LinkedIn
80/1 EMI
100/1 Twitter
100/1 eBay
100/1 AOL
100/1 iTunes
100/1 HBO
100/1 MSN
200/1 Sony
200/1 Universal Studios
200/1 Bing
200/1 Ask
250/1 BBC
250/1 Disney
500/1 Google
500/1 Fox

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