Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Piracy

  • Jan 18 (Reuters) - Wikipedia, the worlds free online encyclopedia, went dark on Wednesday and other Internet players including Google put black censorship bars on portions of their websites in protest of pending U.S.
  • (Reuters UK)
  • Hundreds of millions of Internet users will go online Wednesday and find their favorite websites . . . dark.
  • (Philadelphia Daily News)
  • Wednesday, Jan. 18: the day of the SOPA blackout protest.
  • (Los Angeles Times)
  • NATCHITOCHES, La., January 18, 2012—Congressional efforts to fight online piracy have run into strong resistance and are being derailed.
  • (Washington Times)
  • Members of Congress faced a barrage of concerned and sometimes angry calls and e-mails from constituents made aware of the protests when they sat down at their computers.
  • (USA Today)
  • Sony Corp. (6758), owner of entertainment websites crippled by hackers last year, is under threat of new attacks for its support of Hollywood-backed anti-piracy measures in the U.S. Congress.
  • (Bloomberg)
  • (Updates with hedge-fund arrests and RBS fine in Compliance Action section and Amazon.com lawsuit in Courts.) Jan. 18 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Inspector General H.
  • (BusinessWeek)

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