SOPA/PIPA Indefinitely Shelved After Massive Protest

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A friend of mine posted this on his wall

"What PIPA & SOPA mean- any copyrighted material on the internet will be blocked in the US and anyone providing copyrighted material on the internet will be arrested for 5 yrs minimun. (so wikipedia-gone, youtube- gone or changed until unrecognizable, same for google. any fansites? gone. tv shows on internet? gone. use a screenshot or a pic of a character on an account anywhere? account gone & IP address blocked)

ACTA is international cooperation to end online piracy. Of course the US is involved, but no one not-government in the country really knows much about it because 'The negotiations were classified as secret in the US on the grounds of "damage to the national security".' (see Wikipedia article) , so NONE of us knew until someone leaked a draft of it.

Ya know megaupload.com? Yeah, they shut it down arrested the owners in New Zealand and they're being extradited here to the US. Why? Because they had a small amount of stuff on a server in Virginia."

So if there wasn't a "spy" no one of us would have the knowledge about SOPA and PIPA.

It is no difference between our politician. Therefore I can say , that these two laws (Sopa & PIPA),will, once everything has cooled down, be put into the U.S. law, quietly and calmly.

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