On January 24th, the Senate will vote on SOPA, the “Stop Internet Piracy Act,” Today– January 18th– Redit, Boing Boing, and a lot of other internet sites have joined in a 12 hour blackout warning folks that this legislation could, literally, destroy the internet as we know it.
Those participating in the blackout are saying: Call your representatives and tell them you oppose it.
There’s an ongoing and increasingly desperate by pre-internet copyright holders to blame new technology on their failure to adapt to it. Anyone who has read about about these sort of technological changes– from sheet music to player pianos, from that to records, from records to radio, etc.– will know this story. Continue reading “Why stopping SOPA is important.”