ganeshran Posted January 17, 2012 Posted January 17, 2012 to protest the new SOPA law. Wikipedia is among hundreds of websites that will be showing just how they feel about SOPA by going dark Wednesday. The English-language version of Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, will be shut down for 24 hours in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act and PIPA, the Protect Intellectual Property Act, now working their way through Congress. Jimmy Wales, site co-founder, told the BBC's Martha Kearney on Tuesday morning that "tomorrow from midnight Washington D.C. time until midnight the entire day of Wednesday, we're going to blank out" the English version of Wikipedia and post a message of protest. He told Kearney that the legislation makes "something like Wikipedia essentially impossible ... if the provider has to police everything that everyone is doing on the site." Websites taking part in the so-called SOPA Strike include Mozilla, Reddit, WordPress and Boing Boing. Twitter was hopping Tuesday morning with the news: From the BBC's Philippia Thomas: "#Twitter chief says 'Closing a global business in reaction to a single-issue national politics is foolish'. How about that #Wikipedia?" Greenpeace tweeted: " 'We're sorry, you're not allowed to read this.' Join us in saying no to corporate censorship of the internet." The MPAA and others who support the law say the Internet operators have it all wrong. As the Los Angeles Times reported on Tuesday: The Motion Picture Assn. of America and others driving the legislation said real progress had been made toward creating a law that would protect intellectual property. The advocates said misinformation is inflaming passions on the Web while doing nothing to solve the problem of piracy. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2012/01/wikipedia-sopa-strike-blackout.html
asterix Posted January 17, 2012 Posted January 17, 2012 Reddit too? How will Akshayxyz will get his daily material to post in the 'Never Ending' thread then? :hmmm:
DomainK Posted January 17, 2012 Posted January 17, 2012 I have been using wikipedia on a daily basis for a long time. Whenever I have time on hand, I study different topics relevant to my profession and wiki plays a huge role in providing contents and references. Google and wikipedia are two sites one can not live without.
cowboysfan Posted January 17, 2012 Posted January 17, 2012 I have been using wikipedia on a daily basis for a long time. Whenever I have time on hand, I study different topics relevant to my profession and wiki plays a huge role in providing contents and references. Google and wikipedia are two sites one can not live without. thats all you use wiki for? that is really boring dude:giggle:
ViruRulez Posted January 18, 2012 Posted January 18, 2012 Wikipedia has taken a bold step in protesting SOPA. More power to them and hope SOPA and PIPA are rejected completely. I am not for copyright infringement but the way in which ISPs can take down websites without any legal procedure is against the rule of law and democratic principles. And SOPA would have also resulting in trampling of the policy of fair use in internet which is essential for a fair and free internet. Unless everybody in the world starts taking a photograph or video of everything he or she wants to share this SOPA policy does not work. Only the movie industry would benefit with SOPA and PIPA and nobody else. Strict copyright infringement laws must be enacted but SOPA and PIPA is definitely not the answer. To be honest, even the current laws are quite strict and music companies pull down youtube videos even if a radio or music system with that song is playing while creating the video. Anything more strict would be insane. Secondly, it does not make an iota of sense to held Google, Yahoo or Microsoft responsible for anything appearing in their search engine. This is just an insane attempt to kill internet.
DomainK Posted January 18, 2012 Posted January 18, 2012 thats all you use wiki for? that is really boring dude:giggle: :((
rkt.india Posted January 18, 2012 Posted January 18, 2012 thats all you use wiki for? that is really boring dude:giggle: any other use than that?:hmmm:
DomainK Posted January 18, 2012 Posted January 18, 2012 ^ I can see the logo. I tried google.co.in, google.com - both signed in and not - working fine for me.
Nova Posted January 18, 2012 Posted January 18, 2012 That's weird. I think you have to be in the US then ..they must track your IP. :dontknow:
Nova Posted January 18, 2012 Posted January 18, 2012 Here check this out: http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/18/google-wikipedia-protest-sopa-pipa/ :D
Sidhoni Posted January 18, 2012 Posted January 18, 2012 Wikipedia having a blackout http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_cricket_team Wikipedia has a 24 hour blackout protesting against a US Law that could hamper the freedom of the Internet. However, if you're feeling helpless without Wikipedia today, you can still read it by hitting the 'Escape' button BEFORE the blackout screen loads!
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