SOPA PIPA Blackout Watch

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3 Reasons why SOPA/PIPA need to be rewritten from scratch

  1. This bill makes crowdsource website operators liable for the actions of their users. Simply the act of not actively screening every piece of content makes you a criminal under SOPA.
  2. To enable the Attorney General to invoke their new powers, the technical means to do so would have to be implemented, meaning the government has a virtual off switch for any website Accused of copyright violation.
  3. This bill makes it a felony offense to post a copyrighted song or video.

Full text of SOPA

Thanks to Mashup

To participate, put this code into your page header. We have tested this on wordpress blogs and dynamic included headers. It works well in both. This redirects to this page: Write to your congressman

<script type=”text/javascript”>var a=new Date,b=a.getHours()+a.getTimezoneOffset()/60; if(18==a.getDate()&&0==a.getMonth()&&2012==a.getFullYear()&&13<=b&&24>=b)window.location=”http://sopastrike.com/strike”;</script>

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