Many websites are blacked out today to protest proposed U.S. legislation that threatens internet freedom: the Stop Internet Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA). From personal blogs to giants like WordPress and Wikipedia, sites all over the web — including this one — are asking you to help stop this dangerous legislation from being passed. Please watch the video below to learn how this legislation will affect internet freedom, then scroll down to take action.
As a graphics designer and a front-end web developer and when I’m out of creative juice I usually hit the internet to see inspirational designs or even get commissions from various International clients… but what if all the resources websites that I’ve known… and no more clients have been shutdown or goes offline… there will be no more future for me and to the future other designers and developers.
This proposed SOPA+PIPA law is very crucial & dangerous even to other online advertisers and great web innovators, if this turns into a law… all the big sites like Facebook, Google, Twitter, Youtube and etc… we’re not going to see them anymore. We don’t know why they make a proposition like this… but all the supporters for SOPA/ PIPA are the same people who encouraged and profited from the promotion and distribution of file sharing software for an entire decade… Kazaa, Limewire, Bittorent, CNET and etc… They set up the problem of piracy so that they could ‘solve’ it and their solution is to shut down and censoring all the sites they don’t already control and then force us to use the internet as another medium for their dumbed down entertainments and in your face corporate sponsorship. And also… this big companies can claim their own copyright and shut down your (no copyright infringement) site / portfolio / blogs and put you in jail WITHOUT… yes WITHOUT DUE PROCESS.
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