#StopSOPA - Jan 18 - Web Blackout + Response to dAPlease See Edit 10 at the bottom for Response to dA update
Hello Everyone!

Please Comment and Fave to show your support. Please feel free to ask questions as well.
Consider sharing with your watchers as well!

For those of you wondering what SOPA/PIPA are, take a look at this video http://fightforthefuture.org/pipa/

As a protest of #SOPA and #PIPA (The Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect IP Act) two pieces of legislation that are up for debate once again on January 18, 2012, I will be blacked out from all my websites, deviantART included. What does this mean?

"On January 18, between 8am and 8pm EST (or 13:00 and 01:00 UTC), Red

"The whole point of the blackout was to raise awareness of the situation of SOPA/PIPA, in spite of the numerous amount of news reported, there are still a couple of people either oblivious or ignorant about the risk of SOPA/PIPA.

The number of corporations supporting SOPA are mostly from the music, game and film industry, which could serve as one logical reason as they are losing their sales with torrent sites. [link] [link] [link] . That would be justifiable, but the passing of the bill would result in a lot of consequences. The indie game/music/film companies would find themselves at peril. People who commentate on games like HuskyStarcraft and TotaBiscuit will be affected as well.

And the scary thing is, this would not in turn only affect America, it will affect the world."

-Comment made by me earlier this morning