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Reddit, the online web link sharing company, has slowly and gradually become the internet giant of late. Its power became obvious from its recent actions that forced the US Congress to back off from the anti-privacy and so-called anti-piracy acts earlier this year. When Congressman Lamar Smith authored the Stop Online Piracy Act to be […]
Reddit offered a blackout of the website in Los Angeles and DC, but other users of the website had the same solution for other regions of the world. The result was a complete blackout of the site on January 18. Wikipedia and Mozilla followed quickly and brought their services offline to encourage the protest. Google […]
If you are thinking to buy a new tablet and the one thing stuck in your mind is Apple then what my advice to you will be to have patience. The new iPad 2, the latest edition of the Apple tablet to date, is available for $499, 16 GB and refurbished is $50 cheaper, give […]
At one point, it looked as if piracy on the internet could never be controlled but with recent legislation being passed around the world by different governments, especially the United States, file sharing websites that had always provided people opportunity to access unlimited amounts of content are on the run. With the recent closures of […]
‘Anonymous’ hackers have replied to closure of websites by the US government by claiming to take down Justice Department’s website. The statement "Megaupload was taken down w/out SOPA being law. Now imagine what will happen if it passes. The Internet as we know it will end. FIGHT BACK" ran on the Justice Department’s website in […]
Wikipedia and Reddit join the protest against Stop Online Piracy Act Stop Online Piracy Act has attracted a strong opprobrium in the past few months, especially after it was put for vote in front of the House of Representatives and US Senate. However, since the act is on the verge of being accepted by the […]
Rep. Smith aims on continuing with the campaign against what he calls is the protection of the US intellectual property. “To enact legislation that protects consumers, businesses and jobs from foreign thieves who steal America’s intellectual property, we will continue to bring together industry representatives and Members to find ways to combat online piracy,” he […]
Wikipedia has shut down its English-language service for 24 hours protesting against anti-piracy bills that according to critics might amount to censorship. A bleak statement on Wikipedia website states, “Imagine a World without Free Knowledge, for over a decade; we have spent millions of hours building the largest encyclopedia in human history. Right […]
An avalanche is in the making of, as many online businesses and communities are joining the protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). The act, that is solely targeted at the censorship of the content on the internet that is ‘offensive’ to the media and governments. It started in the US but now many […]
Facebook is on the verge of going public and cannot take the risk of taking the online social network down although the move will be the strongest statement of all. With a user-pool of around 800 million, the website can assist the protest against SOPA on an immeasurable level but the company cannot take the […]
However, the reasons why Go Daddy has made such a dubious statement is that the company has lost its 21,000 domains on a single day, December 23rd. The company bosses do not want to lose their business because of the support for an act that isn’t even up yet and moreover, it is quite in […]
Go Daddy.com, internet domain name and space providers have indirectly pledged their support to the Stop Online Piracy Act. The company’s CEO Warren Adelman said in statement that the company no longer supports the SOPA as it stands to the date, ‘however’, things might change when this act is reformed in its entirety. “Go Daddy […]
