Wikipedia to stage blackout in protest at SOPA

[Xamonas Chegwé]

I just heard on the radio that Facebook and Google are following suit!

[Bella Fortuna]

How does one prevent US based folk from accessing a Website?

Fill it full of thoughtful, intelligent, and articulate content?

[Svartalf]

Not nice to people who might need access to the wiki during said period.
I'd hate to have to rely on wiki.fr

[Xamonas Chegwé]

Jimmy Wales is on the radio now, talking about the bills and why they are taking action.

[Svartalf]

How does one prevent US based folk from accessing a Website?

It's not just US, it's the w<hole English language wikipedia that's getting blacked for 24hrs. Ozzies and brits won't have access to it either during that time, nor will I, though I expect wiki.fr will still be working.

[Ronja]

CBS News techtalk blog claims that MoveOn, Reddit and Mozilla are also joining, but gives no specifics about if they will be completely down: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501465_162- ... o-prepare/

The Examiner claims that Reddit, Boing Boing, and the Cheezburger network are joining, same lack of detail: http://www.examiner.com/unemployment-in ... ut-of-work
They reference ABC News, 1st Web Designer, The Daily Beast and FireFall as their sources.

TorrentFreak writes about Google: "Today, Google announced that it will take part as well. The search engine will not go dark completely, but instead it will put a link on its homepage to inform users about the threat these bills pose." http://torrentfreak.com/google-joins-pi ... ke-120117/

What have others found out?

[Xamonas Chegwé]

The BBC report...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16590585

[Jesus_of_Nazareth]

How does one prevent US based folk from accessing a Website?

It's not just US, it's the w<hole English language wikipedia that's getting blacked for 24hrs. Ozzies and brits won't have access to it either during that time, nor will I, though I expect wiki.fr will still be working.

Ok.

Be interesting to see how that affects the "Traditional" Media

[Pappa]

I just heard on the radio that Facebook and Google are following suit!

[Xamonas Chegwé]

I just heard on the radio that Facebook and Google are following suit!

Nothing further on that since... Probably just reporters jumping the gnu.

[Pappa]

I just heard on the radio that Facebook and Google are following suit!

Nothing further on that since... Probably just reporters jumping the gnu.

Surely they could limit it to only US IPs.

[PsychoSerenity]

Somewhat related, and one of the ways US law now effects us all. The 2003 Extradition Act signed by Bush and Blair was supposedly part of the war on terror, and now it's used for shit like this.

'Piracy' student Richard O'Dwyer loses extradition case

A Sheffield student can be extradited to the US to face copyright infringement allegations, a judge has ruled.

Richard O'Dwyer, 23, set up the TVShack website which US authorities say hosts links to pirated copyrighted films and television programmes.

The Sheffield Hallam University student lost his case in a hearing at Westminster Magistrates' Court.

If found guilty in a US court he could face up to five years in jail.

Mr O'Dwyer's lawyer, Ben Cooper, indicated during the hearing that he would appeal against the ruling.

Mr Cooper said the website did not store copyright material itself and merely directed users to other sites, making it similar to Google.

He also argued that his client, who would be the first British citizen to be extradited for such an offence, was being used as a "guinea pig" for copyright law in the US.

[Svartalf]

I just heard on the radio that Facebook and Google are following suit!

Nothing further on that since... Probably just reporters jumping the gnu.

Surely they could limit it to only US IPs.

I sure got the message on my consulting the wiki, and they don't seem to want to make details... not sure if anybody else is going to go to that effort.

[amused]

It's on the front page at CNN.com. Down in the left-hand list of latest news items, but still...

[Ronja]

I chose to do a raw translation for tomorrow's work-to-be-delivered now, even though it was late already, and backup everything doubly locally + took an almost complete manual backup of our school software project documentation also (our weekly workday is on Thursday, so everything must be available and work then).

Likely overkill, but I'll sleep better...