Following the lead of internet icons such as Wikipedia and Mozilla and Firefox, and I shutting down all of my websites for the remainder of the day, as part of a global protest of the SOPA/PIPA laws currently before the US congress.

Let me be clear that I do not support piracy of copyrighted material. I myself have been a victim of piracy in the past, and we do need rules to restrict it. However the laws being discussed would give a single government the authority to shut down anything on the ...

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