If you aren’t familiar with SOPA allow me to show you this handy video which explains what it is and why it is bad for the internet. More specifically, why it is bad for you. SOPA stands for Stop Online Piracy Act. While I believe that content creators should be paid for their work, this bill is not the way to go about it. It will cause far more problems than it will prevent and the potential for abuse is large.
PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo.
If you prefer your information in text, Gizmodo has a good primer on SOPA.
Or you can have this amusing song “The Day the LOLcats Died.”
So… in support of the anti-SOPA protest, my site will be dark tomorrow from 8am -8pm. More importantly, I’m writing a paper letter to my representatives.
(By the way, if you are a WordPress user, I’m using the Stop SOPA plug-in to go dark.)
