Sopa: Sites go dark as part of anti-piracy law protests
Found on BBC News on Wednesday, 18 January 2012
The Wikipedia encyclopedia and blogging service WordPress are among the highest profile pages to remove material.
Google is showing solidarity by placing a black box over its logo when US-based users visit its site.
The news recommendation site Reddit, the online magazine Boing Boing, the software download service Tucows and the German hackers' group the Chaos Computer Congress also removed access to their content.
At the same time, the MPAA twitters that the blackout "fails to enlist big sites", referring to SOPA already as "U.S. law", even though it is not. This level of denial is quite amazing; and it proves again that the MPAA, RIAA et al are living in their own little world.