SOPA Snapshot: 17 December 2011

^ C418, has made music for Minecraft, about SOPA.

^ Another random guy about SOPA and hackers.

What a beautiful Milky Way, and oh, stop SOPA

I'm at school, it is Friday, the weather is horrible, and I find a little moment for myself now.
As I'm thinking what to write about, SOPA pops into my head.

SOPA, you say?

Yes, SOPA. Stop Online Piracy Act.
Another random initiative to ruin the internet.
There have been some tweets and messages about this subject:

^FAKEGRIMLOCK about SOPA

^ The Yogscast, a few people from Australia who make gaming videos, about SOPA.

^ Adam Savage from Mythbusters linking to a youtube video and randomly mentioning SOPA.

^ A Yoyogames Forums moderator about SOPA

Stop American Censorship, an initiative by:

• EFF
• Free Software Foundation
• Public Knowledge
• Demand Progress
• Fight For The Future
• Participatory Politics Foundation
• Creative Commons (Distributor of custom open licenses)
• Mozilla (Creators of the Firefox webbrowser, the Thunderbird e-mail client and more)
• WikiMedia Foundation
• Free Press
• Move On
• Don't Censor The Net!

So, what's the fuss about?

It's about an initiative to 'stop all piracy', at the cost of censoring most parts of the internet.

What will we lose?

• Youtube
• Uncesored Web Searching (Google, Altavista)
• Blogs (Blogger, Wordpress)
• Hosting sites (Imageshack, Mediafire, Google Docs)
• Forums
• Game reviews
• Torrent Websites (The actual goal of SOPA)
• A lot, lot more

SO STOP SOPA!