SOPA and PIPA

Why have Wikipedia, Craigslist, and so many other sites gone dark today? Why is there so much controversy about SOPA and PIPA? Many people feel that  protecting intellectual property is important, but that these anti-piracy bills would amount to censorship with drastic consequences for the Internet as we know it today. Can we come up with better solutions to the problems? Take a little time today to learn more about SOPA and PIPA, and contact your senator if what you learn concerns you.

Proposed legislation:

• H.R.3261 -- Stop Online Piracy Act 
• S. 968 - Protect IP Act

Learn more:

• Wikipedia Learn More page
• New York Times: Protest on Web Uses Shutdown to Take On Two Piracy Bills
• Electronic Frorntier Foundation piece about SOPA/PIPA problems
• SOPA Resistance Day begins at Ars
• Statement from Senator Chris Dodd, Chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. (MPAA) on the so-called “Blackout Day” protesting anti-piracy legislation

Take action:

• Electronic Frontier Foundation's Fight the Blacklist: A Toolkit for Anti-SOPA Activism
• AmericanCensorship.org's Stop American Censorhip page