Personally, I'm going to be joining millions of others shutting off my computer
A mass switch off/shutdown has been organised by Reddit-ers, and I've just seen support from Raspberry Pi and many games sites are also 'going dark', with wikipedia still rumoured to shutdown
http://blog.reddit.com/2012/01/stopped- ... s-all.html
http://current.com/technology/93614269_ ... ent-do.htm
http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/533
http://www.neowin.net/news/more-web-sit ... otest-sopa
So, will murga puppy linux forum be going dark?
Perhaps many want it, secretly, thinking they'll get more royalties...?
A recent British victim of the intent of the act
http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2012/jan/ ... xtradition
The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency has faced criticism for perceived overreach in targeting websites, like TVShack, with no direct US link.
In July the agency's assistant deputy director told the Guardian that ICE would now actively pursue websites similar to TVShack even if their only connection to the US was a website address ending in .com or .net.
Such suffixes are routed through Verisign, an internet infrastructure company based in Virginia, which the agency believes is sufficient to seek a US prosecution
Expect more from other countries....boundary?, what boundary?, they say....
Is there sufficient awareness as to the effect of this passed legislation?
To be honest, I'm quite astounded that far more people and powerful groups aren't publicising this....??
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree ... an-liberty
Yes, that's executive power for arrest of American Citizens without trial!
[Please don't tell me I'm being anti-American....! - I'm ALERTING YOU!]
So, no danger then....?
Anyhow, .....see you Thursday...
Aitch