Yesterday there was a large online protest against two congressional bills that critics claim would be an overreach of power by the government. The Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA, and the Protect Intellectual Property Act, also known as PIPA, would empower companies to have web sites shut down without proving copyright infringement accusations in […]
The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) are two controversial pieces of legislation pending in the House and Senate respectively. Today, 10,000 sites such as Wikipedia and Reddit are “going dark” or otherwise altering their homepages in protest of these bills. Opponents of PIPA and SOPA strongly believe that, if […]
