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Try and think about it real quick: how often do you want to know something really quickly so you jump online search vampire diaries wiki or 1870 wiki. I know I jump on wiki every time I need a quick answer.  Sure I can't use it for a term paper and every answer comes with a grain of salt, but I can take it.
How often do you use wikipedia a week?

At first I found myself weary when I heard that there was going to be a mini wikipedia black out (among other sites). Then I thought, huh, AWESOME.
So SOPA, stands for the Stop Online Piracy Act. I guess in theory this sounds good. Let's protect copyright at any level we can. I mean come on, I'm a photographer and film maker, which means I like the idea and respect the idea of copyright. Now according to wiki (and yes I verified this other places) SOPA stands to, "allow the U.S. Department of Justice, as well as copyright holders, to seek court orders against websites accused of enabling or facilitating copyright infringement. Depending on who makes the request, the court order could include barring online advertising networks and payment facilitators from doing business with the allegedly infringing website, barring search engines from linking to such sites, and requiring Internet service providers to block access to such sites. The bill would make unauthorized streaming of copyrighted content a crime, with a maximum penalty of five years in prison for ten such infringements within six months". SOPA isn't the only bill sites are protesting against. There is also PIPA, the Protect IP Act. Once again from wiki, "The Protect IP Act says that an 'informational location tool shall take technically feasible and reasonable measures, as expeditiously as possible, to remove or disable access to the Internet site associated with the domain name set forth in the order'. In addition, it must delete all hyperlinks to the offending 'Internet site'".
I don't know about you, but this is utter crap to me. What about the twelve year old who posts a video with friends with an underlying track of Free Bird going? Oh wait that was me and I was probably 19 or 20 at the time... All of us do this though and now it is illegal? Or will be if the bill turns into a law? Nah, I don't buy it. There are real piracy problems and copyright issues out there I know. I also know this is not the solution. The world has changed and companies and production studios, etc. need to get on that bandwagon because trying to fight it with bills that could get children into trouble is not the answer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/ will be be blacked out in less than 5 hours.
http://www.reddit.com/controversial/ is going down for 12 hours IN 12 hours.
and hopefully others.

I'm sad that I couldn't find more sites to black out for half a day in protest, but it is what it is. If you want to do something about these bills then go here: http://stopcensorship.org/.
Maybe you are for these bills. Tell me in the comments section your opinion!

Kimberly