URGENT!!! SOPA and PIPA could end HSers.com

[Super Bogue]

Crazy night, Wikipedia and Craigslist have gone dark and Google is covering its own name.

[LilMoochie]

Why is it that Congress does nothing about jobs or the deficit but $100 million from MPAA and RIAA lobbyists can get a bill passed that nobody wants?

Here's a pretty good video about SOPA/PIPA.

[Scapemage]

Google is out for the day, along with various other sites.

Well, partially out, they've posted a promotional message.

[elvenwizard9]

NOOOO!
It's an excuse to cut us off from databases of knowledge and kill our sense of knowing! They want us oblivious! Blind!

BLIND!!!!!!!!

Maybe it has something to do with this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO2eh6f5Go0

[Neo]

Board Game Geek, Heroscapers aka my life censored! What's more it as my senator who introduced it! If I could vote, I certainly wouldn't be voting for him any time soon.

I propose that we watch no TV, and buy no video games (from companies for the bill) and buy no music or Films until we get what we want. We must show them that we care for the free internet more than the entertainment buisness. TV is just bad reality shows now any ways and all recent movies have been geared towards crap too.

[Carnival Man]

Looks like Anonymous are none to thrilled with the MegaUpload takedown & have targeted sponsors of SOPA & PIPA, among others.

Here's a link to a blow-by-blow account of the day by a blogger:
http://www.neowin.net/news/anonymous...egaupload-news

[sixthflagbearer]

Well I think what google and Wikipedia and reddit did worked. People all over school were talking about 'something called SOPA that was going to shut down the internet'

[Neo]

One person at my school was talking about it. Everyone else is not proficient in computers, the internet and how it works and only talk to each other through one website where they only talk to other people at our school who only talk to each other.

[Lord Pyre]

Originally Posted by Carnival Man

Looks like Anonymous are none to thrilled with the MegaUpload takedown & have targeted sponsors of SOPA & PIPA, among others.

Here's a link to a blow-by-blow account of the day by a blogger:
http://www.neowin.net/news/anonymous...egaupload-news

Holy cow, megavideo was my favorite video site. They arrested everyone in charge? That's just downright scary.

[sixthflagbearer]

Just got an email from a petition I signed. SOPA and PIPA are done for!

[LilMoochie]

A) Is MegaUpload the same as MegaVideo?

B) if they can close down MegaUpload using normal "due process," What's SOPA for?

[Kaemon Awa 123]

Originally Posted by LilMoochie

A) Is MegaUpload the same as MegaVideo?

B) if they can close down MegaUpload using normal "due process," What's SOPA for?

A) Not really sure... :\

B) What happened is that the government was able to take action due to a small amount of Megaupload's server space being located in Virginia. SOPA would allow the US to block sites that are 100% overseas based.