Hollywood and the movie industry was built on piracy yet they spend millions of dollars a year lobbying for laws like SOPA, PIPA, and ACTA. Imagine that, hypocrisy in Hollywood…
Today, the Internet’s major players took a stand against The Stop Online Piracy (SOPA) and Protect IP (PIPA) acts by blacking out most or all of their content. These major sites, which included Reddit, Mozilla, and Wikipedia, wanted to bring awareness to the world what life on the web would be like without the freedoms we enjoy today. Our friends at Online University took the time to create an awesome graphic that shows how much of an impact Wikipedia makes on the web and just what we stand to lose.
I eagerly await the informational brochure for U.S. “Citizens”, So Your Website Has Been Permanently Eradicated Without Explaination by a Shadowy Goverment Agency Under SOPA…
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