I just really hope the big dogs (Google, Yahoo, Amazon, Facebook, etc) really go through with it. That'll slap a face off.

The Author of SOPA Is a Copyright Violator

Funny beans.

Today was nuts, right?

Google launched a petition. Wikipedia voted to shut itself off. Senators' websites went down just from the sheer surge of voters trying to write them. NYC and SF geeks had protests that packed city blocks.

You made history today: nothing like this has ever happened before. Tech companies and users teamed up. Tens of millions of people who make the internet what it is joined together to defend their freedoms. The free network defended itself. Whatever you call it, the bottom line is clear: from today forward, it will be much harder to mess up the internet.

The really crazy part? We might even win.

Approaching Monday's crucial Senate vote there are now 35 Senators publicly opposing PIPA. Last week there were 5. And it just takes just 41 solid "no" votes to permanently stall PIPA (and SOPA) in the Senate. What seemed like miles away a few weeks ago is now within reach.

But don't trust predictions. The forces behind SOPA & PIPA (mostly movie companies) can make small changes to these bills until they know they have the votes to pass. Members of Congress know SOPA & PIPA are unpopular, but they don't understand why--so they're easily duped by superficial changes. The Senate returns next week, and the next few days are critical. Here are two things to think about:

1. Plan on calling your Senator every day next week. Pick up the phone each morning and call your Senators' offices, until they vote "no" on cloture. If your site participated today, consider running a "Call the Senate" link all next week.

2. Tomorrow, drop in at your Senators' district offices. We don't have a cool map widget to show you the offices nearest you (we're too exhausted! any takers?). So do it the old fashioned way: use Google, or the phonebook to find the address, and just walk in, say you oppose PIPA, and urge the Senator to vote "no" on cloture. These drop-in visits make our spectacular online protests more tangible and credible.

That's it for now. Be proud and stay on it!

--Holmes, Tiffiniy, and the whole Fight for the Future team.

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P.S. Huge credit goes to participants in the 11/16 American Censorship Day protest: Mozilla, 4chan, BoingBoing, Tumblr, TGWTG, and thousands of others. That's what got this ball rolling! Reddit, both the community and the team behind it, you're amazing. And of course, thanks to the Wikimedians whose patient and inexorable pursuit of the right answer brought them to take world-changing action. Thanks to David S, David K, Cory D, and E Stark for bold action at critical times.

P.P.S. If you haven't already, show this video to as many people as you can. It works! http://fightforthefuture.org/pipa/

kind of a naive question, but if these legislations were voted in, it would only affect websites based on american soil, right? and if certain websites were taken offline, replicas could open up elsewhere they wouldn't be able to do anything about, except maybe just block them to american users?

kind of a naive question, but if these legislations were voted in, it would only affect websites based on american soil, right? and if certain websites were taken offline, replicas could open up elsewhere they wouldn't be able to do anything about, except maybe just block them to american users?

Welcome back MA

A site with anti-SOPA/PIPA games:
http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/sopajam/?action=preview

In related news, no more megaupload.

If Mediafire is next, I will not be happy.

Great list, I was thinking about a boycott too. They deserve to pay just for trying.

Same. Mediafire tends to fly under the radar as people, for some reason, prefer the sites with lame half-hour to 1.5 hour waiting times in between each download.

I'd say rapidshare is the best at the moment. Really rapid (yes, cliche) downloading, even with a free account and I don't remember it having this long wait line between downloads anymore.

If Mediafire will be shut down I'm sure someone will open a similar site in Europe (or another continent). I'm not talking about Rapidsh*t, since there are millions of "clones" (e.g. data.hu) already. The Internet won't die here. And if you're concerned about TPB, they've immunity to this "legislation".

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The FBI accomplished nothing by shutting it down.

This is why you don't fuck with the internet, because it will fuck you right back

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news ... mments-bar

It was only a matter of time before Anon would do something like this, and I am 100% behind them.

I say they should "avenge" Megaupload as well.

I say they should "avenge" Megaupload as well.

And if you're concerned about TPB, they've immunity to this "legislation".

I'm glad Anon is fighting back but if they're really trying to unload their "largest attack ever" they need to hit something bigger than a few sites nobody's looking at anyway.

Oh well. They said they're not done. Should make for a fun night.