Wednesday website blackout day

  In protest of SOPA, Reddit has decided to go dark for 12 hours on Wednesday, January 18, from 8 a.m. until 8 p.m. Other websites such as Wikipedia are considering doing the same. Google, Facebook and Twitter may also do the same.
  I'd pay to see that.
  Imagine the withdrawal behavior of all those twenty somethings and teenagers checking Facebook to see when it comes back online. Jitters. Pacing. Erratic behavior. Tics. Twitches. 
  In related news, the congressman who wrote SOPA is guilty of copyright violations. Time techland:

It doesn’t seem like a huge violation, but that’s the point; if SOPA passes, who knows how minor infractions like this will be handled. Taete is now on a SOPA hypocrite witch hunt, asking users to comb through the list of SOPA supporters to find more examples of deliciously ironic copyright violations. Good hunting, kids.

  Here is the website that is encouraging tracking down copyright violations:

Well, this afternoon we started attempting to gather information of similar copyright infringements by other co-sponsors/supporters of the bill. There's a ton of stuff on these people's sites which, we assume, is copyright protected and not cleared. Take the above video for example. It was uploaded to the official YouTube channel of Lee Terry, the Nebraska representative who was one of the original 12 SOPA co-sponsors. It's hard to imagine that he would have spent the tens of thousands of dollars it would have cost to clear the clips of Looney Tunes, C-Span, ABC News, and FOX News that are used in it. Especially seeing as, at the time of writing, the video has only been viewed 115 times.

  The very nature of the web makes it difficult to track every single item that is discussed on a website. SOPA and PIPA really will break the internet.
  It's pretty disgusting that the very people who claim to be so lovey dovey peaceniks are the ones with their hands around our throats, trying to control every single aspect of our lives, mocking us for drinking bottled water, lecturing us to use paper plastic cloth grocery shopping bags and, most of all, for being fat.
  Hoosierman has covered the SOPA and PIPA extensively. Heat is increasing on these political folks. We need to keep it up.