Have you heard about SOPA & PIPA

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Because of SOPA and PIPA famous sites like Wikipedia, Wordpress, etc went dark on the 17th of Jan. And Google too had a logo with black band on that day (only on US).

What these? These are laws which US Congress is considering to implement

PIPA - PROTECT IP Act
SOPA - Stop Online Piracy Act

What would be the impact of these laws if it comes into action? Read through the below link

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/ ... gle+Reader

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Is the threat of SOPA & PIPA Over

Because of the Blackout and the continued efforts of many before, we got these great results:

- more people around the world are aware of SOPA and PIPA
- President Obama has publicly stated that he does not support the legislation
- plaintiff attorneys for content providers fighting torrent–based copyright infringement like Jay McDaniel opposes the legislation as well and proposes something he feels we all can live with
- there were 2.4 million anti SOPA and PIPA tweets within a 16 hour period
- Co-sponsor of SOPA Sen. Maro Rubio dropped his support for the bill
- Google started a strong online campaign
- Major hacking spree by “Anonymous”
- 10 million online protests signatures, over 3 million emails sent to political leaders, and 115,000 sites participated in the Blackout(more statistics)

Does This Mean It’s Over? Read the below article.

http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/design/in ... aftermath/