Mozilla, Firefox join anti-SOPA strike News January 18, 2012 06:26 AM ET Computerworld - Mozilla, the open-source organization responsible for Firefox, joined other major technology companies today to protest anti-piracy legislation by blackening the browser's home page. From 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. ET, Firefox's default home page -- essentially a search field for Google -- will change from its usual white background with the Firefox logo to a blacked-out version displaying a modified graphic emblazoned with "Stop Censorship." Meanwhile, the English language versions of Mozilla's sites -- mozilla.com and mozilla.org -- will redirect visitors to an "action page" asking for their support in stopping what it called "Internet blacklist legislation." Mozilla and an estimated 7,000 other sites, including Google, Wikipedia and Reddit, went on a "virtual strike" today to voice their opposition to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA), legislation being considered by the U.S. . See more articles by Gregg Keizer.
#OWS Joins International Day of Action: We Are All Greeks Now Tomorrow, the people of Greece will take to the streets again to occupy Syntagma Square in protest of the extreme austerity measures being imposed on the backs of the Greek 99% to the joy and benefit of the European financial elite. The 99% everywhere are under assault by the same global banking interests. Greece is merely the most severe economic crisis yet to be imposed by the International Monetary Fund and other agents of the 1% in the Global North. People all over the world live under the tyranny of policies dictated by the IMF, the World Bank, and the G8. Our resistance to austerity will also be global. TODAY: Friday, February 17, 2012 5:00pm to 6:30pm 101 Market Street San Francisco, CA Occupy San Francisco stands in solidarity with the sovereignty of the people in Greece against austerity measures. TOMORROW: Saturday, February 18, 2012 2:00pm until 5:00pm Liberty Plaza (Zuccotti Park) New York City, NY via Real Democracy Greece: From Occupy Atlanta:
Readers react to SOPA/PIPA - In Depth Despite Protest Against Anti-Gay Chik-Fil-A , NYU Student Council Sides With Bad Chicken "Chicken Tastes Better Than Equality" (James Thilman / Gothamist) New York University students gathered en masse this afternoon in front of Weinstein Residence Hall on University Place to protest Chick-fil-A's donations to anti-gay organizations. A petition authored by freshman Hillary Dworkoski has already collected nearly 11,000 signatures in support of the restaurants removal from campus. The company—whose only New York location is located within a NYU dorm—has donated nearly $2 million to controversial Christian organizations and Dworkoski believes that violates the university's non-discrimination policy. "Gay rights are human rights and Chick-fil-A donates millions of dollars to hate groups. A number of counter-protesters purchased sandwiches from the polarizing poultry purveyor and set up camp just down the block. "They're only helping our cause," said freshman Mackenzie Taylor who was one of the first to arrive at the rally this afternoon with sophomore Paul Funkhouser.
SOPA, PIPA Opponents Prepare for Capitol Hill Piracy Showdown CIO CIO — Opponents of controversial anti-piracy legislation are gearing up for a major fight in both the House and the Senate as they press for support for an alternative bill they say would avoid draconian measures that, if enacted, could create major security vulnerabilities in the architecture of the Internet. The two lawmakers leading the charge, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Rep. "We have been teaming up on this and have been working on this for some time," Wyden said of his partnership with Issa, who in turn added that the two "in many ways are not predictable partners." Wyden and Issa are backing an alternative anti-piracy bill, the Online Protection and Enforcement of Digital Trade (OPEN) Act, a measure they say would create a more effective path for copyright holders to protect their intellectual property from foreign websites that profit from piracy, while avoiding the disastrous consequences they anticipate resulting from the enactment of SOPA or PIPA. Continue Reading
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A preview of SOPA: Web shut down before my eyes Big Security for Big Data Sysadmin blog On Saturday, 7 January, a Canadian DNS host named EasyDNS winked out of existence. This was a preview of what SOPA promises to be like. Suffering from a massive DDoS, all DNS services provided by EasyDNS simply ceased to function. Random but important elements of my virtual world - including all my personal and client domains - were shut down entirely without notice. While frustrating, the DDoS incident is something that your average systems administrator or internet punter can understand. Yet as you read this, the United States Congress is pondering bills like SOPA and PIPA. The topic is divisive, with some placing ultimate blame for the perceived necessity of these bills on Big Tech's refusal to grow up, and others on Big Content's inability to adapt. The mainstream press has largely remained mum on the subject. It hasn't gone unnoticed. Big Security for Big Data
Keith Boykin: Everything The Media Told You About Occupy Wall Street Is Wrong After 10 days out of town, I finally made it to Occupy Wall Street on Tuesday and had a chance to see for myself what's going on. My conclusion: almost everything the media told me about the protest is wrong. Based on my observations, here's what I consider the Top Ten Myths About Occupy Wall Street. Myth #1. One of the most striking images I witnessed at the demonstration was a young black man holding a sign that read "End NYPD Violence!" The officers quickly challenged his accusation. In fact, one of the first things I noticed was a sign posted on a wall that embraced "Kingian Nonviolence," the peaceful principles that guided Dr. Myth #2. Although I supported the concept of the Occupy Wall Street movement when I first heard of it, I admit I didn't think the group had much to offer me. I was wrong. What I found was a wide-ranging group of people from various backgrounds, young and old, male and female, black, white, Latin, Asian and mixed. Myth #3. Myth #4. Myth #5. Myth #6. Myth #7.
SOPA & PIPA: The Pirate Bay Worried About The Internet, Not Itself The Pirate Bay has long been the favored whipping boy of anti-piracy advocates everywhere. Attempts to block it have been made in many countries, and it is one of the sites that draws the most attention – and ire – in pro-SOPA/PIPA rhetoric. The Pirate Bay, so the argument goes, is exactly the kind of site SOPA and PIPA are designed to protect the entertainment industry from. The people who run The Pirate Bay say they aren’t worried, though. What really concerns The Pirate Bay about SOPA/PIPA is what it means about the political power of the entertainment industry in the United States. The Pirate Bay emphasized the global nature of the internet, and the fact that it “can’t be run in one single country.” [Source: TorrentFreak] SOPA & PIPA: The Pirate Bay Worried About The Internet, Not Itself
Occupy Wall Street: Faces Of The Protesters Why do people protest? What do they want? These are some of the questions circling around the Occupy Wall Street movement that started in Zuccotti park last month and has now gone global. "I'd seen so many photos of the protest, on Twitter and Facebook as well as on the news and they were all this chaotic macrocosm -- an information overload," says Kyle Cassidy, a documentary photographer. He headed down to Zuccotti park and photographed protesters one by one with a studio backdrop. The results -- intimate portraits paired with the words of the protesters about their particular motivation to protest -- are stunning. Make sure to click through the whole series below. RANK# 22 | Average 7 If you've been to an Occupy Wall Street event anywhere in the country, we'd like to hear from you.
SOPA creator caught in own web - WTOL.com: News, Weather and Sport for Toledo, Ohio (RNN) - The author of the controversial SOPA bill, which seeks to introduce stricter penalties for companies and individuals caught violating copyright laws online, has been caught in his own web. An archived screen shot of the website of House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith, R-TX, shows a beautiful lush forest in the background. This stock image has been traced back to photographer DJ Schult, according to an article by Vice.com. The photographer protects his image under the Creative Commons license, which allows anyone to use an image as long as it is attributed to the photographer and not used for commercial purposes. But attribution for the forest image does not appear on Smith's website. While Smith's website no longer utilizes stock images, save for one banner strip across the top, the incident has exposed the faults and vagueness that critics point out in the congressman's bill. Copyright 2012 Raycom News Network.