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Wednesday, January 18, 2012

The web finally waking up against SOPA

It has taken (too much) time already but the anti-SOPA movement is finally coming up to speed. We all know that there is absolutely nothing wrong with honoring coppyright and protecting the works of authors but this SOPA initiative clearly is a bridge too far. It kills the mosquito by using a cannon. Yesterday ZDNet's Zack Whittaker announced 'Geeks 1- Congress 0', indicating the SOPA proposal, although not dead yet, was badly wounded. Congress decided to shelve it, in order to reassess and take into consideration voiced concerns over the proposal. Zack closes his blogpost by claiming, and I quote: "Geeks, it should be known, spread far and wide, almost single-handedly helped save the web as we know it." Does it mean SOPA won't be coming back quietly or under a different name? Off course it doesn't. Let's keep our eyes and ears open. Meanwhile, Wikipedia makes a point today, to underline the importance of the SOPA case: