[haiku] Re: SOPA Website blackout ?
- From: Alexander von Gluck <kallisti5@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:23:46 -0600
On 17.01.2012 09:17, Alexander von Gluck wrote:
On 17.01.2012 08:07, François Revol wrote:
In case you have been living on another planet last week, you might have
missed news that some big sites like
Wikipedia will be blacked out on wednesday to protest an upcoming bill
nicknamed SOPA (meaning, ironically, Stop
Online Piracy Act), which is one but many of current attempts at
restricting online freedom.
Those are just the latest iteration of longstanding threats which also
hurt free software like us. Starting with DMCA
and its legal provisions for DRM making it very hard to legally ship with
a way to decode a DVD for ex. in the US.
I propose we follow the blackout on our website.
more info:
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/English_Wikipedia_anti-SOPA_blackout
http://www.BlackoutSOPA.org/
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/01/how-pipa-and-sopa-violate-white-house-principles-supporting-free-speech
+1
I'm for doing the SOPA (or more importantly the PIPA) blackout.
The only effected web service I think should be the main website however.
(exclude dev.haiku-os.org,
cgit.haiku-os.org, etc)
One other tidbit... this seems like an easy way to do it that will
automatically enable and disable on Wednesday:
"
<script>
var a=new
Date;if(18==a.getDate()&&0==a.getMonth()&&2012==a.getFullYear())window.location="http://sopastrike.com/strike";;
</script>
"
Hopefully that html made it through, if not: http://pastebin.com/WX6q27nn
-- Alex
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