Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Sites Go Dim In US Law Protest

Thousands of internet sites are receiving segment in a "blackout" objection against anti-piracy laws being discussed by US lawmakers.

The Wikipedia thesaurus and blogging service WordPress are amid the top form pages to eliminate material.

Google is display oneness by fixation a black box over its trademark when US-based users revisit its site.

The Motion Picture Association of America has branded the action as "irresponsible" and a "stunt".

Visitors to Wikipedia's English-language site are greeted by a dim page with white content that says: "Imagine a world without giveaway knowledge... The US Congress is deliberation legislation that could fatally damage the giveaway and open internet. For 24 hours, to elevate awareness, you are blacking out Wikipedia."

It provides a couple to more sum about the House of Representatives' Stop Online Piracy Act (Sopa) and the Senate's Protect Intellectual Property Act (Pipa).

If users try to access its other pages around hunting sites, the content quickly flashes up before being transposed by the objection page. However, people have been pity workarounds to turn off the redirect.

WordPress's homepage displays a video that claims that Sopa "breaks the internet" and asks users to increase their name to a request asking Congress to end the bill.

"The authors of the legislation do not appear to unequivocally comprehend how the internet works," the site's co-founder, Matt Mullenweg told the BBC.

Across the globe, a few Pirate Party sites have been taken offline. The diplomatic parties - that promoter remodel of

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