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SOPA/PIPA blackout
« on: January 18, 2012, 12:32:01 am »
Today, January 18th, 2012, several websites will black out to raise awareness against the SOPA and PIPA bills, including Wikipedia and Reddit. Omnimaga won't make exception and will black out its downloads section all day from midnight to midnight (Eastern time). We also installed a Stop Censorship banner over the logo on the default theme. (Yeah, it would be kinda boring if we blacked out the whole site, and we feared we would lose some users. Sorry about that.)

We won't let those bills pass, as Omnimaga, like a bunch of your favorite sites, will probably get censored because it won't met hard-to-meet copyright requirements. Act now and call your congress representative in your state, or, if you're not american, the US state department.

Read more about the whole thing here.
« Last Edit: January 18, 2012, 12:40:28 am by Juju »

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Re: SOPA/PIPA blackout
« Reply #1 on: January 18, 2012, 01:38:17 am »
fantastic!
i'm glad that we can be a part of this =)

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Re: SOPA/PIPA blackout
« Reply #2 on: January 18, 2012, 01:41:41 am »
^This. Hopefully the Internet gets listened to.

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Re: SOPA/PIPA blackout
« Reply #3 on: January 18, 2012, 02:54:46 am »
Wikipedia looks great, BoingBoing looks great, Google also has a warning but is obviously not down.

However, Reddit seems to be up :S

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Re: SOPA/PIPA blackout
« Reply #4 on: January 18, 2012, 02:58:25 am »
Reddit is supposed to go down only from 8 AM to 8 PM. Most likely 2 PM to 2 AM of your timezone.  Cemetech also has a warning/black bg.

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Re: SOPA/PIPA blackout
« Reply #5 on: January 18, 2012, 09:26:35 am »
wikipedia looks awesome

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I changed my avatar :)
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Re: SOPA/PIPA blackout
« Reply #6 on: January 18, 2012, 10:52:15 am »
I'l change my avatar, too!

(even parts of the german politics are like wikipedia: http://www.piratenpartei.de/;D
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Re: SOPA/PIPA blackout
« Reply #7 on: January 18, 2012, 11:08:48 am »
nice avatar p2 :)



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Re: SOPA/PIPA blackout
« Reply #8 on: January 18, 2012, 11:57:42 am »
hopefully this stops pipa and sopa completely....
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Re: SOPA/PIPA blackout
« Reply #9 on: January 18, 2012, 12:01:22 pm »
thanx, flyingfish! :)
Even Sorunomes site is down, now! :D
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I really hope they'll stop damn SOPA!
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Re: SOPA/PIPA blackout
« Reply #10 on: January 18, 2012, 12:02:24 pm »
Hopefully everyone behind this bill gets freaked out. They can't ignore the fact the entire Internet is against them.

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Re: SOPA/PIPA blackout
« Reply #11 on: January 18, 2012, 12:06:36 pm »
Hopefully everyone behind this bill gets freaked out. They can't ignore the fact the entire Internet is against them.

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Re: SOPA/PIPA blackout
« Reply #12 on: January 18, 2012, 12:06:44 pm »
Yeah!
It's unbelievable, how many guys are against it!
But here, in Germany, we all don't know anything!!
nothing in radio/newspaper/...
I only got known it seing it in the internet!
I wish every page would be like the one of the "Chaos Computerclub"! (http://www.ccc.de/)
(They are freaks, always hacking some systems and then telling the newspapers, how easy it is to do that, and where the weakest points at the hacked sites are)
And also another german politics group is down now: http://www.gruene.de/
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Re: SOPA/PIPA blackout
« Reply #13 on: January 18, 2012, 12:23:08 pm »
mozilla is against it: http://www.mozilla.org/



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Re: SOPA/PIPA blackout
« Reply #14 on: January 18, 2012, 01:16:51 pm »
thanx, flyingfish! :)
Even Sorunomes site is down, now! :D
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I really hope they'll stop damn SOPA!
Yeah, I'm against it, even thought my website probally wouldn't be affected, youtube, instructables, forums etc. would be.....and I wouldn't like that.

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