18.01.2012 15:05 Uhr, Quelle: The Unofficial Apple Weblog

TUAW on SOPA and PIPA: What they are and why we're against them

By now, news about two bills making their way through the US legislative approval process, Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA) and PROTECT IP Act (PIPA), has spread like wildfire across the Internet, along with widespread criticism of both bills. As part of that criticism, if you're reading this on January 18, 2012 and you try to click on either of those links above, you may notice that neither of them work as expected. That's because Wikipedia, one of the most-trafficked and most well-known sites on the Internet, has pledged to "go dark" for 24 hours in protest a

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