safcraft wrote:
I think the Canon Rumours guy will have to find another host to his website, and a non-american one.
Many of us have temporarily blocked our own sites for the day to protest the proposed SOPA and PIPA legislation. Kudos to him for taking part - it costs him real advertising affiliate income to take this stand.
The blockage gets handled in various ways: Some sites will redirect to another site with PIPA/SOPA information, some will let you click through to the site after seeing the initial message (as on Canon Rumors), some will block you the first time but not thereafter, others will only block for a few hours, etc.
Lifted off theWikipedia site.
I hope you understand that the SOPA and PIPA would put the burden on website owners to police user-contributed material and call for the unnecessary blocking of entire sites. Small sites won't have sufficient resources to defend themselves. Big media companies may seek to cut off funding sources for their foreign competitors, even if copyright isn't being infringed. Foreign sites will be blacklisted, which means they won't show up in major search engines. SOPA and PIPA would build a framework for future restrictions and suppression.
Please tell your elected officials to vote this bill down.
Zeph Van Allen
