Wikipedia joins the protests of the PIPA SOUP: black days ago

Critics of the SOPA (the law of piracy off the Internet) and PIPA (prevention [preventing threats on the Internet real economic creativity, and the theft of intellectual property law), and proposed legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives. UU. And the Senate say it represents a serious threat to the Internet as we know it. Also apparently aimed at taking measures to combat piracy, which is considered by some as a way to censor the Internet.
These measures include the removal of domain name services, and payment network and service providers advertising for the alleged violation sites. Sites located outside the United States must agree to the jurisdiction of the United States to a "counter-notice" that did not participate in the alleged violations.

Critics say, among other things, that the proposed legislation places the responsibility too great for the operators of sites that contain content that is created by the user (in the case of links the user to the site of abuse), which can be used against sites hosting open source software ( In particular, where the use of a particular piece of legal software in your "home" but not in the U.S.).

Another big name to join the fight against the SOPA and PIPA is Wikipedia. The English version of Wikipedia participation in the work day on January 18 (U.S. time) by the "bleak" for 24 hours.

"Wikipedia from around the world have talked about the opposition to this devastating legislation," said Jimmy Wales founder of Wikipedia. "This is a work of unusual to take our society - at the same time, we regret to them to maintain the world have access to Wikipedia for a second one, we simply can not ignore the fact that PIPA soup and threatens freedom of expression, both in the United States and abroad, and is a worrying precedent for Internet censorship in the world. "

History of the United States to persuade other governments to follow suit, and an example of this is the anti-circumvention provisions to amend the Copyright Act and Copyright 2006 pursuant to Australia free of free trade between the United States and Australia agreed.