See page 6.
Here are some in-depth articles about the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) poised to be voted on this year in the U.S.A.
SOPA will effect users world wide.
I post them as a starting point of discussion and awareness of this act.
Looks like there is a new act called OPEN being offered.
I started a new thread about the OPEN act:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=75422
SOPA and PIPA Delayed
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/201201 ... ayed.shtml
US Senate postpones Tuesday vote on PIPA
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/ ... te_on_PIPA
Molly Wood's Blog
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-573624 ... ody-loses/
Just In...can anyone verify?
Anonymous #OpMegaUpload Attacks Justice Department, MPAA, RIAA
http://www.fastcompany.com/1809775/anon ... -mpaa-riaa
Khan Academy Explains SOPA-PIPA
http://boingboing.net/2012/01/18/khan-a ... papip.html
SOPA In Fight Over Piracy Bills, New Economy Rises Against Old
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/19/techn ... .html?_r=1
SOPA Strike!
http://americancensorship.org/
SOPA Track - Check How Congress Votes on SOPA
http://sopatrack.com/
Wikipedia to join Web blackout protesting SOPA
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-573 ... ting-sopa/
Obama Administration Comes Out Against SOPA, PIPA
http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com/20 ... a-pipa.php
note: GoDaddy hosts this forum.
GoDaddy time to ...?
http://mashable.com/2011/12/30/its-time ... y-a-break/
GoDaddy bows to boycott, now 'opposes' SOPA copyright bill
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-57349 ... ight-bill/
GoDaddy Requires Photo ID to Transfer
http://digg.com/news/technology/go_dadd ... o_transfer
GoDaddy Boycott Kicks Off Tomorrow
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/12/ ... us-begins/
GoDaddy Drops SOPA Support, maybe ...
http://tidbits.com/article/12692
GoDaddy's Reversal a Win for Customer Pressure
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/a ... ssure.html
Go Daddy loses over 37,000 domains due to SOPA stance
http://venturebeat.com/2011/12/24/godaddy-domain-loss/
Where Do Your Elected Officials Stand on SOPA?
http://mashable.com/2011/12/30/sopa-track-app/
Reddit to go silent in SOPA protest
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-57356 ... a-protest/
Al Gore Comes Out Against SOPA
http://mashable.com/2012/01/06/al-gore-sopa/
Video game industry still supports anti-piracy bill SOPA
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/12/31/v ... e-reports/
Comments from EFFECTOR about SOPA
https://supporters.eff.org/index.php?q= ... t=1&id=108
Silicon Valley Execs Comments:Wrapping Up a Week Of Action Against SOPA
It looks like the Week of Action Against SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act, has made a difference. Although there wasn't enough opposition to kill the bill outright, the messages we've been sending for weeks — that the bill would create blacklists for online censorship, harm cybersecurity efforts, set a bad international precedent, and lead to a fractured Internet — couldn't be ignored. Chairman Lamar Smith acknowledged that the Judiciary Committee didn't yet have all the facts, and announced that markup would be suspended until the next practicable opportunity — tentatively scheduled for late January.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-573429 ... ag=nl.e757
BoingBoing:
http://boingboing.net/2011/12/17/wtf-is ... a-now.html
Surprise Microsoft quietly opposes SOPA
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-57330 ... ight-bill/
The EFF series on SOPA:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/10/d ... worse-ever
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/10/s ... k-Internet
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/11/h ... innovation
included a link to SOPA:
http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/pdf ... 203261.pdf
Another SOPA piece with video:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/11/2 ... perbole%29
SOPA Alternative:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news ... merges.ars