Historic: The Internet Protests Anti-Piracy Bills

Ernesto
January 18, 2012
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January 18, 2012, will still be talked about decades from now. It is the day tens of thousands of websites, including giants such as Google, Wikipedia and Reddit, decided to take a stand against what they see as a hostile takeover of the Internet by Hollywood, the recording industry, and other rightsholders. As it faces two draconian anti-piracy bills, the free Internet is at stake. Whatever the outcome may be, history is being made today.

tf-strike At TorrentFreak we’ve been covering copyright battles for more than half a decade. When a new anti-piracy bill emerges, wherever in the world, there has always been a push-back from civil rights groups and Internet users. Unfortunately, these protests are almost exclusively ignored by lawmakers.

Could this pattern be broken today?

Judging by the scope of today’s protests it’s now or never. In the coming hours hundreds of millions of Internet users will be confronted with blacked out pages and similar “strikes” in opposition to the PIPA and SOPA bills, and if enough people take action the people in Washington may just listen.

The first signs are positive, but there’s still a long way to go. Here’s how YOU (corporate pawns) can help:

- Tell Congress you oppose PIPA/SOPA.

- Not in the US? Email the State Department.

- Call your Senator.

- Leave your computer and visit a Senator.

- Discuss, share and inform others about the bills.

For those who are wondering, TorrentFreak is not going dark. Our purpose has always been to inform the public, whether it’s the latest news or a call to action like this article. We believe we can contribute and achieve more by keeping the site online than to black out completely. That said, we are alerting all visitors to take action through the excellent censorship script put together by FAT LAB.

To save an impression of today for future generations, we’ve listed below a few of the many protest pages being run today. Did we miss a good one? Paste a link in the comment section and attach a screenshot!

Google

Google has blocked its logo to protest PIPA/SOPA and added a link to a resource page where people can take action.

google strike

Demonoid

Demonoid, one of the largest BitTorrent communities, is going dark completely, with a nice spotlight effect.

demonid

Firefox

Firefox users will be welcomed with a dark themed default home page today, alerting people about the looming PIPA/SOPA threats.

The online community Reddit will point the public to a resource site where they can take action.

Wikipedia

Wikipedia will be completely inaccessible for 24 hours, except the pages about censorship, PIPA and SOPA, of course.

WordPress

WordPress is joining the protest as well, and has decided to censor itself today.

wordpress

Minecraft

Minecraft is protesting as well, but in red with the tagline “PIPA & SOPA, How About NOPA.”

pipa

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Shadyguy

Add craigslist and RockPaperShotgun to the blackout list as well.
- Guest
  
  HAHAHAHAAA
  
  fuck you MAFIAA
  - Predator
    
    This idiot of Christopher Dodd issue a comment that make no sense at all but this indicate that they are really freaking out at the MPAA!
    
    Haha!
    
    FREE HANA BESHARA!
    - Historic Comment
      
      FUCK YOU MAFIAA
- MAFIAA
  
  “Some technology business interests are resorting to stunts that punish their users or turn them into their corporate pawns, rather than coming to the table to find solutions to a problem that all now seem to agree is very real and damaging,” said former Senator Chris Dodd, the chairman of the Motion Picture Association of America.
  
  “It is an irresponsible response and a disservice to people who rely on them for information… A so-called ‘blackout’ is yet another gimmick, albeit a dangerous one, designed to punish elected and administration officials who are working diligently to protect American jobs from foreign criminals.”
  
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16612628
  - Anon
    
    You so scared.
    - Anon
      
      Yes they are SCARED, scared to loose their jobs and lives. Most of the people working as “middle men” have no other skills. The producers/artists will go on forever but not the middle men they are doomed and they know it. It is those people who want laws not aritsts.
      
      The easy solution is the tech companies to group together and buy out hollywood on mass. Scrap all the old minds who hanker for the 1960′s business model. Scrap all the over 50′s out the door who are trying to be in the middle. Take over the middle role more efficiently artist funding and production costs and collect money by asking for smaller amounts but capitalising on their huge audience and easy of collection using their technology. They need content they will now have to buy it. Most of the middle-men of Hollywood will go for it and retire somewhere and die off hopefully. There is no point pirating if Google throws a movie at you for $1 a pop.
      
      Simply put until the techs buy out hollywood this will NEVER end as hollywood cannot solve this in the decade they have been trying they have made it worse and worse and worse…they sue this gets in the news more people get on board…they scram but if you don’t have some laws it is too easy…it already is too easy…and all their silly comparisons to theft, drugs and child porn are so far out there they are making a mockery of themselves and more people get on board…then in comes tech companies who help to facilitate and makes millions then more get on board…not going to be solved but these clowns is it when now they fancy shutting the USA out the global tech business to let China run riot!!! Fools the whole lot of them.
  - Guest
    
    What is dangerous are the flammable comments that this corporate parasite is throwing up. These guys are going to get it.
- I. P. Freely
  
  One way to bypass DNS blocking is to use a site’s IP address. Someone on TPB created a torrent/streaming IP list, search for:
  Torrent sites and Ip addresses
  - Lindsay Lewis
    
    still cant get on demonoid using ip address still comes up with sopa thing oh well will have to wait it out
    - Haylel
      
      That’s because it’s not a DNS block. A DNS block would make it so when you tried to go to demonoid.com it would time-out and never connect. The “SOPA thing” is what demonoid IS right now, you can’t get around it because there’s nothing to get around, working as intended. If the sopa passed and started blocking websites, THEN you would enter the IP and still be able to get to them.
- Predator
  
  What’s happen to the paid corporate Troll? He is hiding somewhere shaking in it’s boots because of the blackout? Does he finally realize what his boss is facing now?
  
  meanwhile: FREE HANA BESHARA!
http://www.facebook.com/hopeyoufsckingdie Hope You Die

Google is still a pussy bitch.
- Anonymous
  
  since they are on the stock exchange they can’t easily shut down for a whole day
  
  they are doing as much as they reasonably can today (plus spend a few millions lobbying against SOPA/PIPA)
  - ndmushroom
    
    Do you see a blocked google logo? I don’t, I only see the teenie tiny “tell congress” link under the search bar. I’m pretty sure they could do better…
    - Anonymous
      
      for me the google logo is also not blocked
      but then again, i am not american
    - Anonymous
      
      Same here. Apparently you can only see it if you’re in the US. I see it when using a US based proxy for example.
    - Google FTW
      
      Use a US proxy or VPN and you’ll see the blocked Google logo. Google has already done a lot more than most of these sites mentioned in the article. Get yourself informed and stop with your bullshit.
  - http://twitter.com/MAFIAAFire MAFIAAFire
    
    Google spending those millions it gets per day fighting SOPA in the newspapers and other places is better than losing those millions by blacking out…
    
    IMHO anyway.
    - Ven
      
      Also, you won’t see any publicly owned sites that operate on traffic income shut down, as it would most definitely lead to lawsuits from stockholders.
- Anon
  
  So’s your mom. A loose one at best, but still a pussy.
  - PlatinumC
    
    Rofl good one, I haven’t laughed that much for a while :P.
  - Wanker
    
    Lmao awesome reply. Nearly fell off the chair :D
- http://www.twitter.com/echoman74 echoman
  
  Why hating on Google so much? You should be happy!! Now if you should be mad about anything it should be Facebook and twitter for not doing shit. It makes me wonder whose side Facebook is really on and that’s why i left. As for twitter the founder should be sitting in a corner banging his head for not taking part it’s rather selfish of him.
  But in your best description of “pussy bitch” let us know what you mean i see it loud and clear that Google being the #1 used site worldwide that posting awareness on the homepage to link to a petition speaks out MORE THAN FACEBOOK AND TWITTER combined. it shows whose really on our side.
  
  I HAVE BECOME VERY ANTIFACEBITCH TODAY AND REALLY HATE MARK ZUCKERFUCK!!!
  - http://twitter.com/CheapassFiction AeliusBlythe
    
    Well said. I haven’t heard much from FB, but I can’t see Twitter in the same light since seeing this quote from the CEO:
    
    “Closing a global business in reaction to single-issue national politics is foolish,”
    ( http://news.yahoo.com/wikipedia-editors-sites-planned-blackout-225904304.html )
    
    As if this REALLY only affects one nation?? Really? Does anyone actually think that this does not affect individuals around the globe? Apparently they do. Moron-i-tude.
    
    But, yeah, while we see the courage of certain site, the cowardice of others has become crystal clear.
    - Ven
      
      No I think Dick Costolo meant that single-issue politics (not politics of a single nation) are not worthy of blackouts.
      
      It’s a dick stance to take anyway, probably worse than not saying anything at all. But his hands are really tied on stuff like this: Twitter’s business model is a glorified quadruple mortgage debt scheme that keeps his balls in a vice until the end of time, so he really has no control over the Twitter platform.
    - http://www.twitter.com/echoman74 echoman
      
      Absolutely it doesn’t just affect us but the globe for the fact that when one country stand the lead in censorship the rest will follow.
  - CLL
    
    I think that it’s best for Twitter to stay open today, as this gives people a way to communicate to each other about SOPA and PIPA. Being able to tell your friends and followers about something is a lot easier when the sites that you use to do this aren’t blacked out.
    - Ven
      
      I am assuming this is why Facebook did nothing as well. Word of mouth (which works like a charm on sites like Twitter and Facebook) are far more convincing than Facebook trying to tell us they are looking out for all of us.
    - http://www.twitter.com/echoman74 echoman
      
      well it’s amazing and i love twitter but sorta pissed but even so every other tweet and every other user has an anti sopa on their pic. i did it but wouldn’t want to claim being the first to do so but it’s amazing.As for faceshit i still hate mark zuckerfuck. http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/183596_803217174181_4_41228199_8332618_n.jpg nuff said.
  - Guest
    
    “Why hating on Google so much?”
    
    Because every corporation is suspicious including Google.
    
    The larger the corporation the more suspicious they are.
    
    Let’s kill them All!
    - http://www.twitter.com/echoman74 echoman
      
      Lol are you serious lmao.
    - Spam Control
      
      @echoman, I thought everyone knew by now that this particular Guest moron doesn’t speak for the file sharers. He goes ‘kill him’ and ‘kill them’ all the time to make the entire file sharing community look bad and to give the impression that we are all mindless blood thirsty drones. Just ignore him as everyone has been doing.
  - http://iwanowski.se Martin Iwanowski
    
    No blackout from Facebook & Twitter is good – but I’d like to see some awareness notification on their site, albeit small.
    
    Scenario. Joe searches regarding his STD on google – gets a black box showed onto his face. He doesn’t think about this more and continues on. Wikipedia is (usually) the first result and he enters – now wikipedia has a total blackout so he can’t miss it. “Wow, what is this?” He reads about it, or watch a movie and now he’s going to tell all his friends about this. How? Facebook and Twitter.
    - http://www.twitter.com/echoman74 echoman
      
      What I’m angry about is they have a chance to reach a larger audience and say they oppose. But, flip flop and not even show a link..But i agree with you.
Ryan McGonigal

YES! Let’s all show, TOGETHER, just how WRONG the US government is!! Go to Google and sign the petition!!! Let’s make history people!
http://crazycaveman.wordpress.com crazycaveman

The Oatmeal is also blacked out http://theoatmeal.com
- Ven
  
  IF for no other reason, this site should be checked out because that video is hilariously informative.
- http://twitter.com/zarathustra2k1 zarathustra
  
  …& I just love their animGIF… =]
http://twitter.com/ahm Avery

Quoting the Wikipedia page:

“Didn’t the White House declare that it won’t sign anything that resembles the current bill?
No, neither SOPA nor PIPA is dead. On January 17th, SOPA’s sponsor said the bill will be discussed in early February. There are signs PIPA may be debated on the Senate floor next week.”

Did anyone else notice that this is totally illogical and was apparently written by someone who doesn’t understand the balance of powers in U.S. government?

The entire Internet is erupting in protest against a bill that the White House has already promised to veto…
- http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000576266883 Dustin Sanchez
  
  Like Obama’s promise to veto the NDAA? Yeah… as if…
  - http://twitter.com/ahm Avery
    
    Obama modified the NDAA so that it explicitly stated that no existing laws on detention would be superceded before he passed it.
    - http://www.facebook.com/hopeyoufsckingdie Hope You Die
      
      Sources?
    - http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000576266883 Dustin Sanchez
      
      He issued a PRESIDENTIAL STATEMENT. That does not forbid the future President from going in a different direction. You’re a gullible fool. Do your research before commenting.
    - http://twitter.com/ahm Avery
      
      http://politicaldesk.blogspot.com/2012/01/misconceptions-about-ndaa.html
  - Guest
    
    Like Obama promised not to be drone-murdering cunt
- http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000576266883 Dustin Sanchez
  
  Interesting read. Let me tell you about the backdoor. There is currently a new bill moving through Congress that allows the President to strip an American of citizenship without due process. Do some Google-fu and you’ll find the bill.
  - Ven
    
    The Enemy Expatriation Act can strip nationals (but not citizens) of their nationality. In other words, non-citizens who live in the U.S. can lose the right to be here (essentially get deported).
    
    As nationals are not citizens, all of the “Won’t apply to citizens” clauses in legislation like the NDAA doesn’t protect nationals anyway.
- Anonymous
  
  Obama and the NDAA as noted below.I no longer trust Obama to do the right thing and if he thought so as a man and a decent Constitution loving one he would come right out with a Speech to the American People.He would explain the issue and say he is against doing this.
  Obama does not have the balls !!!
  SOPA/PIPA = WAR
Mark

because fuck you SOPA!
HollywoodAnna

Tens of thousands.
Tantali

http://www.humblebundle.com/ as well
- Wanker
  
  Wow the design and effects are stunning.
TheJake

Sweet chocolate covered christ! Been watching the news coverage on a few networks and, of course, it is short, quick, and not very substantive at all to say the least. So glad this is an internet thing and not a legacy news media protest. Alexis Ohanion got about a paragraph’s worth of time on CNN a few minutes ago. We need to kick this shit into overdrive.
- Anonymous
  
  I saw my local UK news service spend about 4 minutes on today’s historic blackout of thousands of websites. I would expect most news services would cover this event in early evening news.
Anon

Nobody puts baby in a corner
Anonymous

governments dont listen to the people. how often has any notice ever been taken of us? all those in power are interested in, is how much they are going to get out of backing a corporation over what is best for them.
i sincerely hope the protests have the desired effect but the problem is, those that want these laws brought in will not stop until they get them. there has to be ways of stopping them once and for all. surely that has to be to stop politicians from receiving contributions from industries under the guise of lobbying, protest further by stopping purchasing the various products of those industries (hit them in the pocket!) and get the ridiculous copyright laws that exist now repealed and re-written to suit the digital age and the needs of all parties!
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000617943487 Máté Bikfalvi

Wikia is doing it too, but unlike Wikia.com subdomains got censored altogether i.e. http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/The_Elder_Scrolls_Wiki
http://twitter.com/Power2All Power2All

http://www.AnonOps.com IRC network is protesting too.
- Anonymous
  
  I don’t want AnonOps protesting, I want them hacking. Would be nice if they DDOS’d lobbyists sites today making them blackout.
Arush

even torrentz has also participated in this movement
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http://www.facebook.com/people/Don-Dilly/1624894683 Don Dilly

add uncyclopedia.wikia.com to the list
- Anonymous
  
  why?
  
  They claim their blackout is in protest to the wikipedia blackout and unlike wikipedia they support SOPA and PIPA
  
  “Imagine a World Without Lolcats, Bronies, and other complete stupidity”
  
  “The Uncyclopedia community has authorised a blackout of the English version of Uncyclopedia for 24 hours in protest of the blackout of the English version of Wikipedia. Unlike them, we support the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the U.S. House of Representatives and the PROTECTIP Act (PIPA) in the U.S. Senate – bills that, if passed, will help purify and secure the currently free and open Internet, once and for all putting an end to the mess of memes and blogs and social networking.”
  
  “Wikipedia urges you to take action, but today we ask you to not take any action at all.
  Let it happen. Allow the Internet to be purified.”
  - Michael
    
    either you are dumb or and idiot.
  - PlatinumC
    
    Cant tell if troll or moron.
    - Wanker
      
      Most likely a moron.
  - DannyUfonek
    
    This is called black humor, you know
    - Anonymous
      
      So they black out for fun? The whole point is to get people to take action……at what point do they do that???
      
      I have never used the site and don’t know what their usual content is, so when i see their “message” all i see is support for SOPA and PIPA…..no call to action, in fact they ask “you to not take any action at all.”
      
      Please enlighten me, How does this help stop SOPA and PIPA???
    - Anonymous
      
      they use sarcasm to get people to take action
      
      sadly sarcasm has a minimum requirement on intelligence, so it has not reached you
    - Anonymous
      
      This website is a humour site to make fun of Wikipedia by creating false humorous listings in the same theme. It is clear to see that anyone who wants to “purify” the Internet is having a laugh here.
  - http://twitter.com/zarathustra2k1 zarathustra
    
    Your poast made my day, silly twat. :D
  - Anonymous
    
    @violate0 Thanks for the content info.
    
    Even knowing that info, I stand by my original post.
    
    Had they provided links to take action like everybody else, this “discussion” wouldn’t be happening.
    
    Violated0 pretend for a minute that you know NOTHING of the site, can you still read it and honestly say it’s an effective anti-sopapipa message?
    
    It’s no more than a “let’s continue? to make fun of wikipedia” message at best. therefore not worthy of the blackout list.
    - Ven
      
      At a time when the clown costume needs to come and and the person behind it needs to be serious for a moment, they chose to make a joke about it. Sure their intentions may be one way, but there are some times when you need to speak clearly and seriously about the real world. Hell even Moot could do it on 4chan…
FUCK-SOPA-N-PIPA

I fuckin hope this will get those old senile congressmen and senators up from their chairs and realize they’re actually poking the dragon with a very sharp stick with the courtesy of protection by a weak foil-shield from the MPAA.

Fuck me sideways if these bills passes. We won’t have user-comments on any sites in the future as owners will be responsible for their users..how the f*ck does that work out, i.e. torrentfreak BYE BYE …technews such as techcrunch BYE BYE…One damning link = BYE BYE. This is why this bill is so fucked up. Whoever drafted the bill needs to go drown themselves in a lake where noone will find them.
- Anonymous
  
  SOPA/PIPA = WAR
  “Unleash the Kraken” !!!
Zan

2 more i know of blacked out or protesting

http://www.xda-developers.com/
http://www.zeropaid.com/
Mitt

http://torrentlawyer.wordpress.com site is blackened as well.
TheJake

http://www.freethoughtblogs.com –

Many of the blogs here are participating in the protest as well. This blog site hosts many scientists, teachers and commentators for all things science and atheism. PZ Myers’ Pharangula blog also listed another specific threat to the publications of scientists that take public funding the terrible US Research Works Act (RWA). The RWA seeks to make published findings from scientific endeavor locked behind paywalls, EVEN research that is publicly funded and yet you may have to pay to see its results. theguardian.co.uk has a good article on issue this if you want more info.

P.S. – Rep. Darrell Issa introduced this bill, so while I commend his OPEN alternative, he is still a threat to the dissemination of information.
- Guest
  
  Hey, go easy on the RWA. Gotta keep the lower class ignorant somehow, right? Knowledge paywall, baby!
Louigi Verona

Many people from the Linux community have blacked out their sites and blogs.
http://www.twitter.com/echoman74 echoman

AWARENESS IS VICTORY ;)
Me

http://www.wikia.com/
joins the protest
Listix

The best blackout is the one from the oatmeal. http://theoatmeal.com/sopa
- Anonymous
  
  that was awesome !!! thank you
- Oprah on a jetski
  
  Absolute quality and funny as all cluck!
Shalltheedie

?@judgecarter @McCaulPressShop @JohnCornyn @kaybaileyhutch @LamarSmithTX21

Twitter accounts of the Texas Representatives.
- http://tinyurl.com/ANoiXioNA-personal-info ANoiXioNA
  
  TiME 2 TR0LL
http://torrentfreak.com/ Rob8urcakes

If USA want to censor or shut down bits of OUR internet Worldwide, then we MUST be permitted to vote in USA elections.

If not, then the US can simply fuck off with their fascist crap.
- Shalltheedie
  
  While I do agree. Freedom of choice plays a bigger part than any.
- Biteme
  
  Is stupid very painful?
http://twitter.com/icanhazsake Ninja

Well, here’s a vocal minority for you Mr Lamar Smith. I’d love to know how many calls and e-mails the Congress and Senate received today. Monstrous network congestion I tell you!

Historic day indeed, fellow file sharers. And the fact that Dodd is bitching about it as if the MAFIAA are the victim adds a whole new sweet flavor to all this thing.

You know, we are living in dark times but I’m proud to be in the middle of it all, even though I can’t be even more active offline.

Sail on, my friends!
Shalltheedie

http://panderellis.blogspot.com/
Guest

http://www.raspberrypi.org/
Guest

OpenDNS is on it too
http://guide.opendns.com
http://www.facebook.com/hopeyoufsckingdie Hope You Die

http://www.xbmc.org/
- http://www.facebook.com/hopeyoufsckingdie Hope You Die
  
  http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v414/hikari_corgan/xbmc1.jpg
  http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v414/hikari_corgan/xbmc2.jpg
DannyUfonek

http://www.9gag.com
is going dark too.
http://twitter.com/CheapassFiction AeliusBlythe

“…Could this pattern be broken today? … ”

Not to rain on anyone’s parade, but most of the mainstream coverage has been pretty negative. It’s been the “We don’t think Wikipedia (et. al. ) should take a political stance!” or the “Bu-bu-bu-but they’re not supposed to take a po-po-po-political stance!”

The wide ranging coverage of these protests is abhorrent. The mainstream media seem to be doing their darndest to make sure this protest comes to naught. But I don’t believe it will, of course. I don’t believe it will be a waste. Somewhere, there must, in the millions of people visiting Wikipedia, Reddit etc. people who wil sit up and listen to these warnings. It is not a waste. But there are definitely people trying to waste it.

This IS one of the most impressive online protests, coordinated by well-respected business entities, but will they be listened be to?
- Guest
  
  Well, the mainstream media is literally owned by copyright gangsters, so… Yeah. Shouldn’t be too surprising.
- Samsmith971
  
  Hardly surprising that mainstream media aren’t reporting this very well…..they are part of the problem, they fully support all anti piracy legislation no matter how draconian. They feel they are a victim of piracy too.
DRuNKeN MaSTeR

DEAR ???????????????????? INTERNET ??????????????????????? SOPA ??????????????? IS ???????????? WRONG ???????????????????? AND ????????????????? A ????????????????? MISTAKE. ??????????????? TELL EVERYONE.

Btw, Demonoid has the best blackout I’ve seen so far.
- Shalltheedie
  
  Yes. I love theirs. I copied the HTML for my blog.
  
  http://panderellis.blogspot.com/
- Anon
  
  Wtf man? I can’t read what you have written.
- http://awesomewallpapers.wordpress.com/ Ben
  
  XBMC’s site is the best. It has a cool spotlight effect…
Stickywicket10101

Whoa Joey! CNN is downloading War Horse using utorrent!
Also a great plug for thepiratebay. Me like.

Then they have that MPAA dipsh*t Chris Dodd talking about stealing and how we are losing jobs.

But heck, let’s not mention that War Horse is a DVDSCR (screener) provided by the MPAA member DreamWorks. It was leaked to the Internet BECAUSE DreamWorks provided the screener to some schmuck whom leaked it out.

Hey Dodd … Blame DreamWorks for the leaked War Horse DVDSCR.
DO NOT BLAME THE INTERNET.

Just a minor detail.
tedrock

http://imgur.com is replacing all images with a “Image has been found in violation of SOPA” image.
Anonymous

What people dont realize is that these bought and paid for politicians dont care about some silly protest. Total-Security.tk
- Spam Control
  
  WTF asshole you are now using the free .tk domain to spread your spam link? Fuck off.
My milkshake…

An easy way to bypass any type of blocking is to use a site’s IP address. Someone on TPB created a torrent/streaming IP list, search for: Torrent sites and Ip addresses
- Linzi1983x
  
  it doesnt work tried it with demonoid
- http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PFCI5VRUCYT6AVBT3P6ILV3COI Ophelia Millais
  
  True, but for access to something like a torrent announcing forum or portal site via a web browser (these are the kinds of “rogue” sites being targeted), when many domains are hosted at a single IP address, the browser must inform the server at that IP address which domain it wanted. Browsers currently just use whatever you asked for in the URL, so entering an IP address instead of domain name there probably won’t work unless the site has been configured to serve up the web page for that one domain by default. Any “absolute” links on the site that explicitly refer to the domain would still not work.
  - Guest
    
    Stop Troll. You make no sense. You are late today.
Fragman

put http://cheggit.net on that list to no porn for 12 houres argh :P
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Chilloutdude

1337X.org is with you all the way
mike

I just cancelled my Newzbin2 account. They blacked out a service that I pay for, and considering their membership they’re effectively preaching to the choir. Fuck them.
- RIAAtarded
  
  Well that was dumb. The 1 day blackout is a protest and to help educate those who might not know and promote awareness of a very serious issue. If they choose to keep their mouths shut it could potentially become permanent. I’ll take a minor inconvenience over ignorance any day.
- Anon
  
  Boo fucking hoo, its like 2P a day u twat.
- Guest
  
  I think you just missed the point of the blackouts. They’re trying to give the world a taste of a censored internet.
- KiRE
  
  You really showed them.
- http://www.facebook.com/hopeyoufsckingdie Hope You Die
  
  Idiot.
Stickeywicket10101

Who would have thunk typing 194.71.107.15 into your browser could be a crime.
Sblake254

Here’s another one: http://xkcd.com/
Anonymous

PIPA & SOPA? HOW ABOUT NOPA?
…
I have even better option – NO PAN ;)

Let’s make a bill to forbid girls wearing panties…
- Anonymous
  
  I’ll be in my bunk.
RbrtR420

4chan is praticipating by censoring written text on there boards.
http://4chon.org/ is blacked out with message
http://7chan.org/news.php is blacked out with message
http://789chan.org/news.php is blacked out with message
RbrtR420

http://arstechnica.com/ has changed there logo and theme for today
Adlfh

4CHAN
4CHAN
4CHAN
4CHAN
4CHAN
4CHAN!
JudgeDreed

Do you really believe what you just read on this web site?

How do you want us to trust the authorities after all the violations of the constitution they are guilty of?

Some examples:

1) Occupy Wall street: What about the right to peacefully assemble? What about all these illegal assaults and batteries committed by the police officer on peaceful demonstrators, journalists and even sometime bystanders? What’s about all these unlawful arrests? The law give the right to the demonstrators to resist by force any unlawful arrest conducted by any police officer (1). The cops are so far lucky that no demonstrator has so far use this right. In occupy Phoenix 50 militias came with guns to protect the demonstrators: the police did not even dare to show up!

2) Gun law: Any law that forbid or restrict the possession such as the requirement of a permit or forbidding citizen to carry any weapon concealed or not is a flagrant violation of the US constitution (2). and for those who want to make some BS about this see note (3)

3) The right to a trial by jury? O ya the plea bargain agreement totally anti-constitutional because it is use to evade the right to a trial by jury (4) .

4) The right to a fair trial. Oh ya cherry picking the jury! The one with the most money win! (4)

5) Cruel and unusual punishment and excessive fines? The indefinite detention torture and assassination in Guatanamo and elswere. Where are the prosecutions? Joel Tenembraun and Jennie condemned to pay million of dollar to the music industry. Are you fucking kidding me? (5)

6) . . .

7) . . .

. . . .
There is a lot more but it is getting too long. The bottom line is that it is time to dismiss this abusive government. There is some constitutional mechanism to do just that. Replacing Obama and changing the majority in congress is not going to do it because our government is irreversibly owned by corporations.

NOTES
(1) “Citizens may resist unlawful arrest to the point of taking an arresting officer’s life if necessary.” Plummer v. State, 136 Ind. 306. This premise was upheld by the Supreme Court of the United States in the case: John Bad
Elk v. U.S., 177 U.S. 529.

(2) A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. U.S. Constitution amendment 2.

(3) “All laws which are repugnant to the Constitution, are null and void.” Chief Justice Marshall, Marbury v. Madison, 5, U.S. (Cranch) 137, 174,176

“Where the meaning of the constitution is clear and unambiguous, there can be no resort to construction to attribute to the founders a purpose of intent not manifest in its letter.” Norris v. Baltimore, 172, Md. 667; 192 A 531.0.

(4) In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense. U.S. Constitution amendment 6.

(5) Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. U.S. Constitution amendment 8.

And finally:

“This constitution, shall be the Supreme Law of the Land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the constitution or laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding.” U.S. Constitution, Article VI, paragraph 2.

“The Constitution is a written instrument. As such, its meaning does not alter. That which it meant when it was adopted, it means now.” South Carolina v. United States, 199 U.S. 437, 448 (1905).

“The primary principle; underlying an interpretation of constitutions is that the intent is the vital part and the essence of the law.” Rasmussen v. Barker, 7 Wyo. 117; 50 p 819.
- http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PFCI5VRUCYT6AVBT3P6ILV3COI Ophelia Millais
  
  You are just ranting. If you have a workable way to undermine the ever-increasing, self-interested corporate influence over American civil rights and over the Internet, let’s hear it.
  - Guest
    
    “You are just ranting.”
    
    This is what people write when they have nothing to say.
- Ven
  
  1) The right to peaceably assemble has restrictions that the OWS protestors were violating. When sanitation hazards or safety hazards are created, the assembly is no longer peaceable.
  
  2) Federal government shouldn’t be allowed to create or mandate the creation of any weapons control laws. Period. The federal government shouldn’t legally be able to prevent me from buying surface to air missiles according to the second amendment, which was unanimously put in place to check the power of the federal government.
  
  You cite Plummer v. State, 136 Ind. 306. but do so incorrectly. Plummer v. State was a ruling from 1897 that specifically stated self-defense was allowable if an arresting officer used excessive force for the situation. It’s quite a dated ruling, as Plummer was waiving a revolver around (which was not illegal), was struck from behind, and then killed the arresting marshal and was found to be within his legal rights. Good luck doing that in this day and age.
  
  But yes, our Constitution is non-functional at this point.
  - JudgeDreed
    
    1) The right to peaceably assemble has restrictions that the OWS protestors were violating. When sanitation hazards or safety hazards are created, the assembly is no longer peaceable.
    
    BOWL SHIT! ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?
    
    CAN YOU READ THIS?
    
    “Where the meaning of the constitution is clear and unambiguous, there can be no resort to construction to attribute to the founders a purpose of intent not manifest in its letter.” Norris v. Baltimore, 172, Md. 667; 192 A 531.0.
  - JudgeDreed
    
    “You cite Plummer v. State, 136 Ind. 306. but do so incorrectly. Plummer v. State was a ruling from 1897 that specifically stated self-defense was allowable if an arresting officer used excessive force for the situation.”
    
    Read this again:
    
    “Citizens may resist unlawful arrest to the point of taking an arresting officer’s life if necessary.” Plummer v. State, 136 Ind. 306. This premise was upheld by the Supreme Court of the United States in the case: John Bad
    Elk v. U.S., 177 U.S. 529.
    
    We are talking here about unlawful arrest meaning an arrest without probable cause and this is the case here since the arrested citizen were exercising their right to peacefully assemble.
    
    Moreover even if you were right, meaning the arrests were lawful, the officers might still get it legally since assaulting a peaceful and defenseless citizen with batons, pepper spray and rubber bullets would definitively qualify as “excessive force”.
    
    By the way it is not just the FEDERAL government that “shouldn’t be allowed to create or mandate the creation of any weapons control laws.” Any governments or institution or organization or person within the US or the US sovereignty or within any territory under the control of the US government shall not be allowed as well because this will infringe the constitution.
    
    Finally about the “non-functional Constitution”.
    
    They can be no “non-functional Constitution”.
    
    “All laws which are repugnant to the Constitution, are null and void.” Chief Justice Marshall, Marbury v. Madison, 5, U.S. (Cranch) 137, 174,176
    
    “The general misconception is that any statute passed by legislators bearing the appearance of law constitutes the law of the land. The U.S. Constitution is the supreme law of the land, and any statue, to be valid, must be in agreement. It is impossible for both the Constitution and a law violating it to be valid; one must prevail. This is succinctly stated as follows: The general rule is that an unconstitutional statute, though having the form and name of law, is in reality no law, but is wholly void, and ineffective for any purpose; since unconstitutionality dates from the time of its enactment, and not merely from the date of the decision so branding it. An unconstitutional law, in legal contemplation, is as inoperative as if it had never been passed. Such a statute leaves the question that it purports to settle just as it would be had the statute not been enacted.” “Since an unconstitutional law is void, the general principals follow that it imposes no duties, confers no rights, creates no office, bestows no power or authority on anyone, affords no protection, and justifies no acts performed under it…. A void act cannot be legally consistent with a valid one. An unconstitutional law cannot operate to supersede any existing valid law. Indeed, insofar as a statute runs counter to the fundamental law of the land, it superseded thereby. No one is bound to obey an unconstitutional law and no courts are bound to enforce it.” Sixteenth American Jurisprudence, Second Edition, Section 177.
    
    “Where rights secured by the Constitution are involved, there can be no rule making or legislation which would abrogate them.” Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436, 491.
    
    “If the legislature clearly misinterprets a constitutional provision, the frequent repetition of the wrong will not create a right.” Amos v. Mosley, 74 Fla. 555; 77 So. 619.
    
    In short this mean that anyone trampling the constitution and as a result cause injury to third parties is a criminal that should be prosecuted. There is a lot of criminals right now patrolling the city street around Occupy-Wall-street right now and a lot of criminals on the wrong side of the bare.
    
    Sooner or later scores will be settle.
Vivalalamb

I just want my beloved demonoid back up, i dont even live in the US so why should they dictate what i see on the internet, you want to sensor what i see then l;et me vote in your general elections fucking idiots
- Guest
  
  Ophelia Millais/Vivalalamb
  
  Shut up corporate troll! We spotted you and your fake opinion!
  
  That’s pretty weak lady!
  - Vivalalamb
    
    are you high? im a corporate dont be a dick ive signed the petition so fuck you
Anonymous

I live in the UK. How about the USA getting rid of the death penalty. We got rid of the death penalty decades ago and society hasn’t collapsed. This SOPA bill is typical of the knee-jerk reaction of American government. I mean I like a good USA action movie but I really wish that Americans would stop doing dramatic “big-sweeping” things. Rather than introducing SOPA here’s a small list of things I think the US government should do:

1) Get rid the death penalty.
2) Close Guantanamo Bay (10 years without a trial – just like Stalin!).
3) Stop putting the whole of the Muslim world into “stress postion” because of 9/11 – its a naive person who thinks every every person born in a Muslim country doesn’t eat pork. Bullshit – Millions of Hindus eat cows and millions of Americans who were raised in a Christian society don’t believe in God. If you think everyone in Iran is a practicing Muslim then I can tell you thats wrong. Irans got the lot – Fundamentalists, the “not-bothered either way” and Darwin Atheists.

BTW not anti-american government or people – pro-american when they do great things like invent the internet but a bit puzzled why they can’t see the benefit of American culture (films, music, tv shows, american books and authors, etc) being spread around the world through file-sharing. You can tell they are a young country because they don’t know how to react to this. I’d say take it in your stride. Did you know that one of the biggest selling authors in India is Shakespeare:

“To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles”

(opening of Hamlet)
- Anonymous
  
  I don’t think the government would want to hear this.
Captain Buzzoverinthehead DFC

Aieee! Even http://www.cakewrecks.com/ has gone dark!
Facebook Sucks

Just Facebook needs to get shutdown, lol. That is one site that is killing society.
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Syncros

Boardgamegeek.com “Censored”
http://techfleece.com/ Richard Gailey

I had my site go dark for 23hrs (started at 12:00 UK time yesterday) I was looking at the stats and it was hopefully fairly effective in terms of people clicking on the http://americancensorship.org/ link. I had 318 people actually click it. I think that was also one of the important parts of the protest; getting the message across to people.

Incidentally, if you want some other screen grabs from peoples protest pages around the web, I have compiled quite a lot of them here. They are yours to grab as you want.

http://techfleece.com/2012/01/18/screenshots-of-sopa-pipa-website-protests/
bamfan5520

You see, YO SEE MAFFIA!!! THIS IS WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF YOU A-WHIPS CENSOR US!!! The internet is fighting back in a huge way…During a long search for blacked out sites today…I found in 7 hours a total of 500 different sites either completely back or censored…You bastards at the MPAA/RIAA are NEVER GOING to win this fight…After what was pulled today, you WILL LOSE ALWAYS AND FOREVER!!! GET OVER IT!!!
Turtledude

ahh minecraft even they have something good about them :D
Tecnocápsulas

As protest against SOPA & PIPA, Tecnocápsulas has decided to join to the protest not trough the blackout. Instead, and due the lack of intormation in spanish about this issue, today we’ve published in spanish some articles about these laws, the risk of their approval, and what the people can do to fight all this.
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Como protesta contra SOPA y PIPA, Tecnocápsulas ha decidido unirse a la protesta no a través del apagón. En vez de eso, y debido a la falta de información en español sobre este tema, hoy hemos publicado algunos artículos en español acerca de estas leyes, el riesgo de que sean aprobadas, y lo que las personas pueden hacer para luchar contra esto.

http://tecnocapsulas.com/
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FCNK7C55CBUYFVSC5LNWKB322E Buglord

btw, wikipedia was easy enough to use the whole day, just a little popup.
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too much hyperbole

A day so historic I didn’t even notice it until it was gone
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Whatever they did it never changed a thing
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After hearing what Anon did, this video sums it up:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSWevi3zhhE
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Anonymous

Too bad Megaupload got shutdown despite this protest.

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