According to Wikipedia -
SOPA and PIPA are badly drafted legislations that won't be effective in their main goal (to stop copyright infringement), and will cause serious damage to the free and open Internet. They put the burden on website owners to police user-contributed material and call for the unnecessary blocking of entire sites. Small sites won't have sufficient resources to defend themselves. Big media companies may seek to cut off funding sources for their foreign competitors, even if copyright isn't being infringed. Foreign sites will be blacklisted, which means they won't show up in major search engines. And, SOPA and PIPA build a framework for future restrictions and suppression.
So, they have blacked out wikipedia for 1 day.
What do you think?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative/Learn_more
SOPA and PIPA are badly drafted legislations that won't be effective in their main goal (to stop copyright infringement), and will cause serious damage to the free and open Internet. They put the burden on website owners to police user-contributed material and call for the unnecessary blocking of entire sites. Small sites won't have sufficient resources to defend themselves. Big media companies may seek to cut off funding sources for their foreign competitors, even if copyright isn't being infringed. Foreign sites will be blacklisted, which means they won't show up in major search engines. And, SOPA and PIPA build a framework for future restrictions and suppression.
So, they have blacked out wikipedia for 1 day.
What do you think?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative/Learn_more